ABBOTT LABORATORIES Analytics and Program Management Officer-Abbott Rapid Diagnostics Salary in the United States

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 103,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

At Abbott, we're committed to helping people live their best possible life through the power of health. For more than 130 years, we've brought new products and technologies to the world - in nutrition, diagnostics, medical devices and branded generic pharmaceuticals - that create more possibilities for more people at all stages of life. Today, 103,000 of us are working to help people live not just longer, but better, in the more than 150 countries we serve.

Position summary:

The Analytics and Program Management Officer will create and maintain a quantitative understanding of our markets, our competition, and our customers, to inform both strategy and execution for all product franchises.

This person will also be responsible for driving the timely and successful execution of new products development programs in coordination with the project managers, R&D leaders and marketing, maintain the roadmap in collaboration with other functions, and implement corrective actions and remediation as and when issues arise.

Key responsibilities

Analytics

• Develop and run effective processes for market data gathering, synthesis, and analysis
• Provide comprehensive, fact- and data-based quantitative market, competitive, and customer insights
• Constantly improve and refine sources, coordinating with outside vendors, and internal stakeholders
• Work with all internal stakeholders to coordinate and disseminate market intelligence.

Execution

• Effectively drive programs from initiation to launch, coordinating the individual project leaders
• Work with R&D, Marketing and Regulatory to define Program milestones and timing
• Balance risk, and stretch to ensure timely and successful achievement of aggressive milestones
• Drive execution of program milestones, mitigate and remediate timing issues
• Manage communications and alignment on milestones and their timing

Strategy

• Maintain coherent, and up to date view of R&D project roadmap
• Align roadmap with business strategy, working with relevant functions R&D, Marketing, Regulatory, Finance

• Maintain effective internal alignment on goals, level of priority, and allocation of resources

Process

• Keep process focus on “making the news” more than “reporting”
• Bring structure and rigor to the execution of programs
• Build enough flexibility into the processes and their execution to allow for relevant changes and redirections when needed
• Focus on continuous improvement of program management, gather feedback, benchmark with other groups and companies.

Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree required – preferably Engineering
• Advanced degree preferred (e.g. Master)
• 8+ years relevant experiences in a regulated environment, preferably healthcare (e.g. analytics, product development and project management)
• Qualification & Certifications in Project Management

Core Competencies & Attributes

• Highly analytical, able to derive clear and compelling insights from complex data
• Highly organized and rigorous: always working to improve rigor and repeatability
• Able to deal with issues and disorder in a productive manner: can create and nurture order
• Effective in regulated environment, able to drive under – and work with – constraints
• Not just a follower, but a creator of frameworks and templates for others to follow
• Collaborative: able to work closely with a range of cross-functional partners and get them to align
• Able to effectively prioritize, and get others to prioritize
• Self-starter with a hands-on & can-do mindset: willing to own up and get personally involved to resolve issues
• Fast learner, intellectually curious and agile: able to quickly grasp and apply new scientific, clinical, or business concepts
• Travel as needed, about 10% of time – Flexible on work hours, need to work across time zones and continents