Director Design Transfer and Technical Product Ownership

Abbott•Alameda, CA

20h•Onsite

About The Position

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 115,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries. This role provides strategic leadership in directing and overseeing the transfer of all new products from R&D into Manufacturing Operations including completion of commercialization activities to launch new products according to division goals. The Director will exercise leadership in a multidisciplinary environment to expedite, manage, and coordinate a multitude of interrelated activities within the constraints of limited resources and changing priorities. They will develop program strategies for product transfer and serve as the key R&D interface to Manufacturing Operations, Quality and other cross functional leadership for product transfer.

Requirements

Bachelors Degree (± 16 years) Mechanical, Electrical or Mechatronics
Minimum 14 years experience in related field
Ability to manage external partnerships and alliances
Strong communication, cross-functional negotiation, and stakeholder alignment skills
Deep understanding of instrument–assay interaction and system-level performance drivers
Expertise in system architecture, reliability engineering, sensitivity optimization, and workflow integration
Strong expertise in system integration, system requirements, and cross-component interface management
Demonstrated leadership of multi-disciplinary engineering teams

Responsibilities

Provides oversight and leadership to new product teams to develop transfer strategies for new products.
Anticipates problems, resolves issues, learn and adjust based on prior results and leadership experience to solve problems that occur during product transfer.
Manages the Design Transfer group.
Provides coaching, mentoring and effective oversight of the team.
Work cross-functionally with division leadership to ensure successful transfer and commercialization of new products.
Coordinate input from R&D and cross-functional division leadership from Manufacturing Operations, QC, QA, Clinical Affairs, Planning, Purchasing, Validations, and Regulatory on related projects or sub-projects to increase resource efficiencies and reduce product cost through close collaboration.
Develop product transfer strategies, timelines, and milestones.
Identify resource requirements, costs and time schedules for the project funding process.
Recognize the implication of actions and proposals on the final product outcome, related systems and activities, and general business strategy.
Prepares reports and presents progress to management.
Identify problems and recommend appropriate action plans.
Serve directly and indirectly on multiple project teams in a leadership capacity to support process and compliance improvement activities.
Achieve new product launch dates and key product milestones.
Accountable for completing the transfer and launch of new products within budget constraints and project completion dates, and leading others in the completion of project tasks and subprojects.