ABBOTT LABORATORIES Training 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.

The Training Manager assesses training needs and designs, implements and manages training programs for Quality and Regulatory Systems.

Responsibilities:
1. Program Management – Defines the program training needs and manages the design and implementation of the portfolio of projects that support the program curriculum development.
Translates programs and department’s long range strategy into goals and actions and monitors performance against those goals and actions. Identifies and secures the resources required to design and implement the program curriculum. Makes judgments regarding barriers to implementation and takes actions to eliminate barriers. Initiates projects and actions to resolve issues.

2. Training Program Design - Works with subject matter experts to assess and define training and performance needs for Quality System Programs. Utilizes instructional design and adult learning principles to determine appropriate solutions and design strategies. Develops and/or manages the development of program content and curriculum per the design strategy. Assesses curriculum against requirements and assigns Continuing Education Units to curriculum as appropriate.

3. Resource Management – Functions with minimal supervision and uses time effectively and efficiently. Establishes key work partnerships (internal and external) and manages resources as assigned to complete planned curriculum development and to address adhoc business requests.
 

4. Process/Procedure Responsibilities – Knowledgeable in the Programs Quality system.Ensures compliance to the Programs Quality System and to department policies and procedures. Demonstrates the ability to identify problems and opportunities for improvement, investigates, and institutes changes to resolve the problems or implement productivity improvements. Functions as a training process owner, defines processes and writes procedures for the applicable processes. Interacts with teams to develop and/or revise processes and procedures.

5.Communication – Uses oral and written communication to accomplish business goals and improve productivity. Exchanges information with Program management at appropriate frequency and within a time frame to maximize its utility and promote cross functional collaboration. verifies information is understood by recipients. Provides formal program updates to executive management as required.

6. Development/Learning –Open to change and continued personal development. acquires the skills, knowledge and experience to support Program implementation. analyzes both successes and failures for opportunities to improve the program and/or their personal skills.

Qualifications:

B.A./B.S. in Business/Education/Science. Masters preferred. Minimum of 8 years progressive industry experience required with a minimum of 4 years in a Drug or Device Quality function where training was all or part of the positions responsibility. Requires a demonstrated ability to apply adult learning principles in a variety of learning environments (i. e. Instructor-led,
CBT/WBT, etc). The individual should be technically oriented and be knowledgeable in the use of training development software (i. e. Lectora, Captivate, Articulate, etc). They should possess excellent project management skills, be a strong problem solver and have excellent verbal and written communication skills. Demonstrated experience in delivering Instructor led
training and executive level presentations is required.