Senior Manager, Project Leadership

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.

Senior Manager, Project Leadership

Working at Abbott

At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and your family, be your true self, and live a full life. You’ll also have access to:

• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.
• Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year.
• An excellent retirement savings plan with a 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 worldwide 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 the best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

The Opportunity

This is an exciting onsite opportunity within Abbott Diabetes Care (ADC), where we are transforming diabetes management through innovative technologies that empower people to make more informed health decisions. Our groundbreaking glucose sensing technology is redefining how individuals monitor and manage their glucose levels, helping improve health outcomes worldwide.

ADC is seeking a Senior Manager, Project Leadership based in Alameda, CA to lead the strategy, planning, and execution of key digital health initiatives. In this role, you will partner with cross-functional teams to assess opportunities, prioritize investments, and drive the successful delivery of innovative products and programs. You will be responsible for leading complex, business-critical initiatives from concept through commercialization, ensuring effective stakeholder alignment, execution excellence, and achievement of strategic objectives.

What You’ll Work On

• Lead the strategy, prioritization, and delivery of complex digital health initiatives, ensuring alignment with business objectives and consumer needs.
• Manage, mentor, and develop Project Leaders, fostering a high-performing organization while providing leadership across cross-functional and matrixed teams.
• Define and maintain program roadmaps, business cases, scope, schedules, budgets, and release strategies.
• Drive portfolio prioritization and strategic decision-making, balancing business value, resource constraints, dependencies, and timelines.
• Partner with stakeholders across R&D, Commercial, Clinical, Regulatory, Quality, Manufacturing, and other functions to ensure successful program delivery.
• Establish clear program objectives, success metrics, and KPIs, and hold teams accountable for results.
• Proactively identify, assess, and mitigate risks, issues, and dependencies while driving timely resolution of complex cross-functional challenges.
• Lead product launches, market introductions, and geographic expansion efforts, ensuring readiness and execution excellence.
• Evaluate and approve significant changes to program scope, budget, timeline, and resource allocation.
• Influence and align senior leaders and stakeholders by translating ambiguity into clear strategies, priorities, and actionable plans.
• Develop compelling executive presentations and communications, leveraging strong storytelling skills to effectively convey program status, business impact, risks, tradeoffs, and recommendations.
• Present complex information clearly and effectively, enabling informed decision-making and organizational alignment.
• Champion PMO best practices, change management, and continuous improvement initiatives to enhance planning, execution, and delivery performance.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with internal stakeholders, external partners, and vendors to ensure successful business outcomes.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and 10+ years of experience leading product development, program management, or strategic initiatives within the medical device, digital health, or healthcare industry.
• Proven track record of successfully leading complex, cross-functional programs from concept through launch, preferably involving digital products.
• Strong stakeholder management, influencing, and negotiation skills, with the ability to build alignment and resolve conflict across functions, organizations, and external partners.
• Exceptional communication, presentation, and storytelling skills, including the ability to create compelling presentations and effectively communicate with stakeholders at all levels.
• Analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to synthesize information from multiple sources, balance competing priorities, and drive resolution of complex cross-functional issues.
• Strategic thinker with the ability to navigate ambiguity and drive results.
• Experience leading, mentoring, or managing project managers, project leaders, or other cross-functional team members.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience leading digital health, connected device, mobile application, or software-enabled healthcare products.
• Strong organizational and time management skills, with a track record of delivering high-quality work on schedule.
• Highly motivated, goal-oriented, and able to manage multiple priorities simultaneously.
• Comfortable operating in a fast-paced environment with competing deadlines.
• Working knowledge of medical device regulations and standards, including FDA, ISO, and QSR Design Controls.

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Divisional Information

Medical Devices

General Medical Devices:

Our medical devices help more than 10,000 people have healthier hearts, improve quality of life for thousands of people living with chronic pain and movement disorders, and liberate more than 500,000 people with diabetes from routine fingersticks.

CRM

As a global leader in Cardiac Rhythm Technologies, we focus on innovative technologies that can improve the way doctors treat people with heart arrhythmias or irregular heartbeats.

Diabetes

We’re focused on helping people with diabetes manage their health with life-changing products that provide accurate data to drive better-informed decisions. We’re revolutionizing the way people monitor their glucose levels with our new sensing technology.

Vascular

Abbott Vascular provides innovative, minimally invasive, and cost-effective products for the treatment of vascular disease.

Neuromodulation

Our Neuromodulation business includes implantable devices compatible with mobile technology to help people who suffer from chronic pain and movement disorders. These non-opioid therapies allow us to provide interventional pain therapy to patients throughout the pain continuum.

Structural Heart

Structural Heart Business Mission: Why We Exist

Our business purpose is to restore health and improve quality of life by designing and providing device and management solutions for treating structural heart disease.

EP

In Abbott’s Electrophysiology (EP) business, we’re advancing the treatment of heart disease through breakthrough medical technologies in atrial fibrillation, allowing people to restore their health and get on with their lives.

HF

In Abbott’s Heart Failure (HF) business, we’re developing solutions to diagnose, monitor and manage heart failure, allowing people to restore their health and get on with their lives.

Diagnostics

We’re empowering smarter medical and economic decision-making to help transform the way people manage their health at all stages of life. Every day, more than 10 million tests are run on Abbott’s diagnostics instruments, providing lab results for millions of people.

Our Point of Care diagnostic portfolio spans key health and therapeutic areas, including infectious disease, cardiometabolic, informatics, and toxicology.

Our diagnostic solutions are used in hospitals, laboratories, and clinics around the globe. The crucial information derived from our tests, instruments, and informatics systems is often the first step in patient care decision-making for hundreds of health conditions from heart attacks to blood disorders to infectious diseases and cancers.

Our rapid diagnostics solutions are helping address some of the world’s greatest healthcare challenges.

Our molecular division delivers best-in-class innovative testing solutions for people around the world to provide answers to life’s critical health decisions.  We help people live full and healthy lives through our accessible, molecular-based solutions.

Nutrition

Our nutrition business develops science-based nutrition products for people of all ages, from helping babies and children grow to keeping adult bodies strong and active. Millions of people around the world count on our leading brands – including Similac®, PediaSure®, Pedialyte®, Ensure®, and Glucerna® – to help them get the nutrients they need to live their healthiest lives.

The base pay for this position is $148,700.00 – $297,300.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.