ABBOTT LABORATORIES Associate Project Manager 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.

Primary Function / Primary Goals / Objectives:

• Responsible for managing medium to large-scale projects from beginning to end, with accountability for project execution.
• Demonstrate stewardship and provide project leadership to meet ADD strategies and business objectives (CJR)
• Deliver project excellence by incorporating best practices in project management to meet and or exceed customer needs (CJR)
• Identify process issues and recommend improvements to team members and management
• Act as point of contact for project reporting & updates (CJR)
• Provide support as required to Portfolio Management (CJR)

Major Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with Team in establishing ground rules and chartering team
• Ensure project scope is clearly defined; develop and manage project plan to meet deliverables
• Facilitate completion of project documentation and recommend readiness management review
• Participate in project assessments and communicate lessons learned
• Responsible for execution of scope change management and project close-out processes
• Facilitate resource estimates and track overall project budget and metrics
• Facilitate project team members through the project management process; ensure team is working within project scope and addressing questions for next project review
• Create and deliver project review presentations
• Document project plan in Project Management (PM) software and maintain project documentation
• Manage cross-functional project timeline and follow-up with project team members to ensure timely completion of tasks
• Proactively identify and manage project opportunities/ issues/ risks
• Collaborate with representatives from appropriate functional areas across the Division to meet project objectives
• Drive for results and timely decision-making and resolves project team conflicts

Accountability / Scope/Budget:

• Manage projects with representation from all key functional areas.
• Effective, efficient management of project scope and deliverables to achieve growth of key brands and new spaces to deliver LRP to Abbott
• Responsible for identifying critical project issues and risks, and timely communication to leadership
• Provide cross-functional forecasting, tracking, reporting and oversight on project budget and expenditures as required
• This position will work with moderate supervision.
• Exercises judgment within generally defined processes, procedures and policies in selecting methods and techniques for obtaining solutions
• Erroneous decisions may result in critical delay(s) in schedules and/or operations

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a discipline appropriate to the project
• 1+ years of experience.  Limited project management experience, with demonstrated leadership skills on portions of a project or other activities. 

Preferred Qualifications

• PMP certification desirable, Post Graduate Degree preferred
• Experience across multiple areas of supply chain essential; these could be but not limited to: manufacturing, warehousing, logistics, planning, procurement, program management etc
• 2-3 years’ experience directly leading and managing projects is preferred.
• Ability to manage, communicate, and coordinate the project management phases of Initiating, Planning, Executing, Controlling, and Closing
• Demonstrates skills in collaborating and influencing cross-functionally
• Demonstrates leadership competencies inclusive of strong organizational and interpersonal skills; planning and execution skills; written and oral communication skills and critical thinking/problem-solving skills