Senior Project Manager

Abbott Laboratories • Alameda, CA

15d • $114,000 - $228,000

About The Position

The Senior Project Manager will lead complex, cross-functional projects within a regulated medical device environment, ensuring quality system compliance, effective risk management, and successful delivery across scope, cost, and timelines. It partners with internal teams and leadership to drive post-market surveillance, resolve quality issues, and implement process improvements while aligning projects to broader business and regulatory objectives.

Requirements

• Associates Degree with a minimum of 10 yrs industry experience or Bachelors degree with min of 7 yrs of industry experience. equivalent combination of education and work experience will be accepted.
• Min of 5 yrs experience with diabetes management experience is required.

Nice To Haves

• Relevant experience, including business / QA experience.
• Experience in medical devices for diabetes management is preferred.
• Experience with complaint handling, regulatory reporting, or post market surveillance is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Implementing and maintaining the effectiveness of the quality system.
• Defining the business results expected from a project and making recommendations for achieving those results.
• Supporting corrective and preventative action (CAPA) plans to ensure that quality issues are properly investigated, resolved, and prevented from recurring.
• Collaborating with investigation and risk teams to support activities requiring product knowledge and associated risk.
• Leading the team through the translation of management and customer needs into project goals.
• Identifying resource requirements, cost, and time schedules and participating in the funding process.
• Developing an implementation plan, conducting risk assessments, and developing and implementing contingency plans to allow for and accommodate unforeseen events and changes in strategy.
• Maintaining compliance with regulatory agencies, quality system, ethics policy, and project goals.
• Assuring that projects will effectively integrate with existing programs and strategies so that long and short-term business goals are attained.
• Assuring project requirements are met.
• Establishing and managing team charter including project timeline.
• Negotiating with resource managers to resolve any resource limitations that cannot be resolved by the team.
• Participating on division initiatives to identify process improvements to accelerate projects.
• Interfacing with other disciplines, customers, internal clients, project staff, and internal and external experts as required.
• Preparing and presenting written and oral reports and other presentations to internal and external audiences.
• Interacting with senior level management to present significant Program strategies and make recommendations.

Benefits

• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.
• 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.
• A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries around the world and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.
• A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Associate degree