Operations Program Manager

About Abbott

Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 114,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

This position can be based at any of our Diabetes Care locations in the UK and Ireland, including Witney (UK), Donegal (Ireland), or Kilkenny (Ireland).

MAIN PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

• Witha high levelof independence, coordinate company-wide activity in support of major new product launch or launches and/orupgrades to existing products.  

• Document andmaintainarchives for all product-related development activities such as plans,schedules, meeting minutes, management reviews, and departmental reviews.  

• Prepare product development status reports and present to Senior Management.  

• Serve as a product line champion during the development, launch, and post launch phases.

** MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES**

• Strategic  Developproduct requirements and programs to meet strategic needs of the business.

• Communicate product development program status to development teams and ADC management.

• Balance product cost, performance, and time to market issuesin order tomeet ADC goals.

• Coordinate activities between operational organizations from project initiation through launch.

• Tactical  Holdregular project review meetings to coordinate and document the activities of all departments contributing to aproduct launch, including QARA, Operations, R&D and Finance.

• Generate and control various documentation asappropriate, such as product specification, Design and Development plans,product configuration, resource assignments, Bill of Materials, etc.

• Develop product costing estimates working with R&D, Operations, and Finance.

• Provide input to the PMP process.

• Manage development costs on a program.

• This positionis responsible forteam integration on a program, for project team performance, and for evaluation and reportingproject status to senior management.

• Regulatory  Responsiblefor implementing andmaintainingthe effectiveness of the quality system.

• This positionis responsible forthe product definition and development, and preparation of all departments for a successful timely

• launch of a quality product meeting the ADC business and product strategies.

• This position is highly visible and accountable, responsible for directing, and reporting to senior management, the activities in the

• launch for a new product.

• This position will provide leadership to a project team, integrating activities across all departments, with influence acrossdepartmental lines.

• The organizational responsibilities include indirect responsibility for people across ADC departments (QA/RA, R&D, Operationsand Finance) working on a product launch

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelors Degree (± 16 years) Business or a technicaldiscipline

• Masters Degree (± 18 years) Business or a technicaldiscipline

** Experience/Background**

• Experience working in an environment with a disciplined development process for veryquality-sensitive applications Experience in writing product requirements and designspecifications.

• Experience in working on a development team with an emphasis on minimizing time tomarket.

• Experience in design for manufacture for high quality (preferably) medical products.

• Experience in designing medical devices in an FDA regulated environment is desirable.

• Experience working in team environments isrequired.

• Knowledge of Program Management tools such as project scheduling, work breakdownstructures,timeand cost reporting isrequired.

• Position requires the ability to collect information from multiple sources, sort through,integrate, and resolve often conflicting requirements, and drive an organization through thevarious issues to result in a successful product launch.

Note: This job description is not to be considered an exhaustive statement of duties, responsibilities or requirements and does not limit the assignment of additional duties for this role

An Equal Opportunity Employer

Abbot welcomes and encourages diversity in our workforce.

We provide reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities.

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