Abbott
Operations Program Manager
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JOB DESCRIPTION
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.
Abbott in Ireland
Abbott has been operating in Ireland since 1946 and serves the Irish market with a diverse range of healthcare products including diagnostics, diabetes care, medical devices and nutritional products. In Ireland, Abbott currently employs about 6,000 people across ten sites located in Dublin, Donegal, Clonmel, Cootehill, Galway, Kilkenny, Longford and Sligo.
Please note any offer of employment for this position is conditional upon the successful completion of a pre-employment medical examination, including drug and alcohol screening, conducted by a medical practitioner designated by the Company.
MAIN PURPOSE OF THE ROLE
With a high level of independence, coordinate company-wide activity in support of major new product launch or launches and/or upgrades to existing products. Document and maintain archives 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
- Develop product 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 issues in order to meet ADC goals.
- Coordinate activities between operational organizations from project initiation through launch.
Tactical
- Hold regular project review meetings to coordinate and document the activities of all departments contributing to a product launch, including QARA, Operations, R&D and Finance.
- Generate and control various documentation as appropriate, 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.
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This position is responsible for team integration on a program, for project team performance, and for evaluation and reporting project status to senior management.
Regulatory
- Responsible for implementing and maintaining the effectiveness of the quality system.
- This position is responsible for the 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 across departmental lines.
The organizational responsibilities include indirect responsibility for people across ADC departments (QA/RA, R&D, Operations and Finance) working on a product launch.
QUALIFICATIONS
- Education: Bachelors Degree (± 16 years) Business or a technical discipline. Masters Degree (± 18 years) Business or a technical discipline.
- Experience/Background:
- Experience working in an environment with a disciplined development process for very quality-sensitive applications.
- Experience in writing product requirements and design specifications.
- Experience in working on a development team with an emphasis on minimizing time to market.
- 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 is required.
- Knowledge of Program Management tools such as project scheduling, work breakdown structures, time and cost reporting is required.
- Skills:
- Ability to collect information from multiple sources, sort through, integrate, and resolve often conflicting requirements, and drive an organization through the various issues to result in a successful product launch.
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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.
- Base Pay: N/A. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.
- Job Family: Engineering
- Division: ADC Diabetes Care
- Location: Ireland > Donegal Town : R267
- Additional Locations: Ireland > Kilkenny : Kilkenny Business and Technology Park
- Work Shift: Standard
- Travel: Yes, 10 % of the Time
- Medical Surveillance: Yes
- Significant Work Activities: Not Applicable
Abbott is about the power of health. For more than 135 years, Abbott has been helping people reach their potential — because better health allows people and communities to achieve more. With a diverse, global network serving customers in more than 160 countries, we create new solutions — across the spectrum of health, around the world, for all stages of life. Whether it’s next-generation diagnostics, life-changing devices, science-based nutrition, or novel reformulations, we are advancing some of the most innovative and revolutionary technologies in healthcare, helping people live their best lives through better health.
The people of Abbott come to work each day with relentless energy, enthusiasm and a promise to enhance the health and well-being of millions of people. They push the boundaries to help manage and treat some of life’s greatest health challenges. We invite you to explore opportunities at Abbott, to see if your talents and career aspirations may fit with our openings.
An equal opportunity employer, Abbott welcomes and encourages diversity in our workforce.
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