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 122,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.
JOB DESCRIPTION:
Working at Abbott
At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and your family, be your true self, and live a full life. You’ll also have access to:
- Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.
- Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year.
- An excellent retirement savings plan with a high employer contribution.
- Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program, and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree.
- A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries worldwide and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.
- A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as the best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.
The Opportunity
We have an opportunity for the role of Enterprise Project Manager within our Core Diagnostics division based out of the Central United States, and this is a field-based remote role.
Our diagnostic solutions are used in hospitals, laboratories, and clinics around the globe. The crucial information derived from our tests, instruments, and informatics systems is often the first step in patient care decision-making for hundreds of health conditions, from heart attacks to blood disorders to infectious diseases and cancers.
As the Enterprise Project Manager, you’ll lead complex customer-facing diagnostic implementation projects across large healthcare systems. You’ll serve as the primary project leader from pre-sales planning through go-live, hypercare, and project closure to deliver successful customer outcomes.
What You'll Work On
- Lead enterprise diagnostic implementation projects spanning multiple facilities, regions, or health systems, ensuring alignment with customer and business objectives.
- Develop and execute implementation plans, project schedules, resource strategies, and risk mitigation activities for complex customer deployments.
- Support pre-sales planning by providing implementation expertise, operational guidance, and timeline development for strategic opportunities.
- Serve as the primary point of contact for customer leadership teams throughout the implementation lifecycle.
- Facilitate executive reviews, governance meetings, project status updates, and escalation management activities.
- Translate customer requirements into actionable implementation plans that integrate hardware, software, automation, informatics, and workflow solutions.
- Coordinate project activities across Sales, Informatics, Automation, Clinical Applications, Service Engineering, Operations, and customer teams.
- Lead cross-functional teams to achieve project milestones, drive accountability, and resolve issues impacting implementation success.
- Manage stakeholder alignment when priorities, resources, or project requirements evolve.
- Oversee customer readiness, validation activities, and go-live preparation to ensure successful deployment.
- Coordinate issue resolution during implementation, testing, validation, and post-go-live support.
- Guide projects through stabilization and hypercare support until successful project closure.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree required.
- 5+ years of experience leading customer-facing project implementations in healthcare, healthcare IT, medical devices, diagnostics, enterprise technology, or a related technical environment.
- Experience managing business-to-business implementations involving multiple stakeholders and cross-functional teams.
- Experience leading projects involving software, hardware, workflow transformation, systems integration, or operational improvement initiatives.
- Demonstrated ability to influence and lead teams without direct reporting authority.
- Ability to travel extensively throughout the Central United States to support customer implementations.
Preferred Qualifications
- PMP certification.
- Experience supporting laboratory diagnostics, healthcare informatics, automation, middleware, healthcare technology, or enterprise software solutions.
- Experience managing both technical and operational project implementations.
- Experience leading complex, multimillion-dollar implementation projects.
- Experience supporting customer solution planning and pre-sales implementation activities.
- Experience supporting large health systems, enterprise healthcare customers, or highly regulated environments.
Learn more about our health and wellness benefits, which provide the security to help you and your family live full lives: https://abbottbenefits.com/
Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that can help you build your future and live your best life. Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity.
The base pay for this position is
$113,300.00 – $226,700.00
In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.
JOB FAMILY:
Project Management
DIVISION:
CRLB Core Lab
LOCATION:
United States of America : Remote
ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS:
WORK SHIFT:
Standard
TRAVEL:
Yes, 25 % of the Time
MEDICAL SURVEILLANCE:
No
SIGNIFICANT WORK ACTIVITIES:
Keyboard use (greater or equal to 50% of the workday)
Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer of Minorities/Women/Individuals with Disabilities/Protected Veterans.
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