Associate Product Manager

Abbott • Madison, WI

12d • Onsite

About The Position

The Associate Product Manager works in Abbott’s Cancer Diagnostics Division in Madison, Wisconsin, partnering with product and business team members to define solutions that meet customer needs and business objectives. The role supports low-complexity projects and develops hands-on product experience through design reviews and walkthroughs. It assists with defining user stories and user acceptance criteria in collaboration with peers and users.

The Associate Product Manager gathers and documents business needs, translates requirements into functional and non-functional specifications with support from senior team members, and helps ensure proposed solutions meet requirements. The role also supports user acceptance testing and training, communicates project status and risks across functions, and recommends process improvements. The position requires direct hands-on experience using the Cologuard laboratory’s Laboratory Information System (LIS).

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 four years of relevant experience in lieu of a bachelor’s degree.
• Experience working in the Cologuard laboratory, with direct hands-on use of the Cologuard Laboratory Information System (LIS).
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office programs.
• 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 operate in a cross-cultural, complex matrixed environment and build consensus across functions.

Nice To Haves

• At least two years of experience working in the Cologuard laboratory, with direct hands-on use of the Cologuard Laboratory Information System (LIS).
• Experience working across multiple areas of the Cologuard laboratory.
• Experience advocating for LIS users, including identifying and prioritizing requested changes and validating delivered changes against acceptance criteria.

Responsibilities

• Build ongoing relationships with business partners.
• Collect high-level requirements and capture business needs through dialogue with partners for low-complexity requirements within a 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, 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 capture functional requirements.
• Draft and perform activities under 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.
• Communicate cross-functional project status, issues, risks, and problems proactively and regularly.
• Support user acceptance testing and user training.
• Proactively recommend process improvements.
• Uphold company mission and values, and support and comply with Quality Management System policies and procedures.
• Maintain regular and reliable attendance.
• Model an inclusion mindset.

Benefits

• Career development opportunities with an international company.
• Employees may qualify for free medical coverage in 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, an affordable and convenient path to earning a bachelor’s degree.

What This Job Offers

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