Associate Product Manager

Abbott Laboratories • Madison, WI

4d • $50,700 - $101,300 • Onsite

About The Position

The Associate Product Manager works at Abbott’s Madison, Wisconsin location in the Cancer Diagnostics Division. The role partners with product and business team members to define solutions aligned with customer needs and business objectives. It supports product teams on low-complexity projects and builds hands-on experience through design reviews and walkthroughs. The Associate Product Manager also helps define user stories and user acceptance criteria in collaboration with peers and users.

The role gathers and documents business needs, supports the translation of business requirements into functional and non-functional requirements, and assists with requirements analysis, user story development, functional specifications, and solution reviews. It also supports user acceptance testing and training, communicates project status and risks, and recommends process improvements. The position requires reliable attendance, adherence to Abbott’s Quality Management System, and conduct consistent with the company’s mission and values, including inclusion, accountability, innovation, integrity, quality, and teamwork.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Life Sciences, Engineering, Marketing, Business, Finance, or a field relevant to the essential duties; alternatively, a high school diploma or GED and 4 years of relevant experience may substitute for the bachelor’s degree.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office programs.
• Demonstrated ability to perform the essential duties with or without accommodation.
• Authorization to work in the United States without sponsorship.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Ability to work in a cross-cultural, complex matrixed environment and build consensus across functions.

Nice To Haves

• Experience working on Agile development teams.
• Experience in life science, healthcare, bioinformatics, wellness, or digital health.
• Some knowledge of digital analytics tools.

Responsibilities

• Develop ongoing relationships with business partners.
• Collect high-level requirements and capture business needs through dialogue with business partners for low-complexity requirements in a specific product area.
• With support from a senior team member, translate business requirements into functional and non-functional requirements using a structured process for gathering, analyzing, documenting, and managing change.
• Learn to conduct experience and technical discovery with support from business partners and experience design, research, and technical teams.
• Refer to project requirements according to the requirements management plan.
• Participate in design reviews and walkthroughs to communicate requirements and validate proposed solutions.
• Conduct preliminary reviews of product design documentation to ensure requirements are correct, unambiguous, and verifiable.
• Assist in generating use cases and user stories to ensure functional requirements are captured.
• Draft and perform activities with oversight, including user story writing and grooming, requirements analysis, and functional specification writing.
• Mine data to inform system process-flow decisions and document tactical requirements.
• Provide proactive, regular communication about cross-functional project status, issues, risks, and problems.
• Support user acceptance testing and user training.
• Proactively recommend process improvements in a quickly evolving company.
• Support and comply with company Quality Management System policies and procedures.
• Maintain regular and reliable attendance.
• Uphold company mission and values through accountability, innovation, integrity, quality, and teamwork, and model an inclusion mindset.

Benefits

• Career development opportunities with an international company.
• Potential eligibility for free medical coverage through the Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year.
• Retirement savings plan with a high employer contribution.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• Freedom 2 Save student debt program.
• FreeU education benefit, offering an affordable and convenient path to a bachelor’s degree.
• Health and wellness benefits.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level