Project Manager, Marketing Operations

$95,500 - $190,900/Yr

Abbott Laboratories - Alameda, CA

Full-time - Mid Level

Alameda, CA

10,001+ employees

Miscellaneous Manufacturing

About the position

At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and family, be your true self and live a full life. This position works out of our Alameda, CA location in the Diabetes Care division, where we are focused on helping people with diabetes manage their health with life-changing products that provide accurate data to drive better-informed decisions. We're revolutionizing the way people monitor their glucose levels with our new sensing technology. As the Project Manager, Marketing Operations, you will be responsible for supporting the US commercialization of new products and management of key marketing initiatives. You'll define, plan, coordinate, and integrate activities associated with new product launches or upgrades/changes to existing products, or key marketing tactics, including management of project scope and deliverables with representation from all key functional areas. In this role, you will be responsible for managing medium to large-scale projects from beginning to end, with accountability for project execution. You will collaborate with the team in establishing ground rules and chartering the team. Developing and managing a project plan to meet deliverables, including a cross-functional project timeline, and following up with project team members to ensure timely completion of tasks will be key responsibilities. You will demonstrate stewardship and provide project leadership to meet Division strategies and business objectives. Identifying critical project issues and risks, proactively managing project opportunities/issues/risks, and timely communication to senior leadership will be essential. Delivering project excellence by incorporating best practices in project management to meet and/or exceed customer needs is a priority. You will also identify process issues and recommend improvements to team members and management, resolve project team conflicts, act as the point of contact for project reporting & updates, create and deliver project review presentations, and provide support as required to Program or Portfolio Management. Additionally, you will provide cross-functional forecasting, tracking, reporting, and oversight on project budget, expenditures, and metrics.

Responsibilities

• Manage medium to large-scale projects from beginning to end, with accountability for project execution.
• Collaborate with team in establishing ground rules and chartering team.
• Develop and manage project plan to meet deliverables, including cross-functional project timeline and follow-up with project team members to ensure timely completion of tasks.
• Demonstrate stewardship and provide project leadership to meet Division strategies and business objectives.
• Identify critical project issues and risks, proactively manage project opportunities/issues/risks, including timely communication to senior leadership.
• Deliver project excellence by incorporating best practices in project management to meet and/or exceed customer needs.
• Identify process issues and recommend improvements to team members and management.
• Resolve project team conflicts.
• Act as point of contact for project reporting & updates.
• Create and deliver project review presentations.
• Provide support as required to Program or Portfolio Management.
• Provide cross-functional forecasting, tracking, reporting and oversight on project budget, expenditures, and metrics.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in a business or a technical discipline.
• 5-8 years of managing projects is required including knowledge of Program Management tools such as PowerPoint, Excel and Word.
• Creatively solve project issues and proactively mitigate risks.
• Good interpersonal and presentation skills are required in leading cross-function team.
• Strong communications skills and the ability to clearly communicate project progress and needs at all levels.
• Demonstrated collaboration skills; capable of building cross-functional relationships.

Nice-to-haves

• Some experience in product development or medical device product is desirable.
• Project Management Certification (PMP)

Benefits

• Free medical coverage for employees via the Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO.
• An excellent retirement savings plan with 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.