Director, 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.

     

JOB DESCRIPTION:

About Abbott

Abbott is a global healthcare leader, creating breakthrough science to improve people’s health. We’re always looking towards the future, anticipating changes in medical science and technology.

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

Reporting to the Divisional Vice President, Global Strategic Initiatives, this role is a key member of the PMO leadership team, accountable for the execution, governance, and continuous improvement of ADC’s Integrated Business Planning (IBP) function.

This position operates at an enterprise level, shaping how ADC prioritizes, plans, and delivers its most critical initiatives through IBP. The Director will lead across a highly matrixed environment, ensuring alignment to strategy while driving execution excellence, leading critical issue response efforts, and building organizational capability.

What You’ll Work On

Program, Execution and Issue Response Leadership

• Lead enterprise, cross-portfolio programs that span multiple domains (e.g., Privacy, Compliance, Digital/Customer Platforms), either directly or through Program Managers
• Formulate, harmonize and consolidate project scopes, plans, strategies, and budgets for one or more projects, working closely with functional Project Managers and other Subject Matter Experts from R&D, Commercial, Clinical, Regulatory, Quality, Manufacturing, and other functions.
• Lead and develop Program Managers responsible for strategic, cross-functional initiatives
• Provide leadership for the Issue Response Team, driving coordinated, rapid response to high-priority issues, escalations, and business-critical events
• Ensure clear governance, decision-making rigor, and executive visibility during issue response situations
• Drive consistent, high-quality delivery across complex, interdependent programs
• Serves as the liaison between the team and management

IBP & Enterprise Portfolio Leadership

• Own the end-to-end performance of ADC’s Integrated Business Planning (IBP) function, ensuring alignment of strategy, priorities, and execution
• Drive integration of portfolio planning, prioritization, and resource alignment within IBP processes
• Lead prioritization and trade-off discussions to optimize value delivery across ADC
• Integrate customer and market insights into portfolio prioritization and planning decisions

Governance & Operating Model Excellence

• Define and continuously evolve IBP governance frameworks, including decision rights, escalation pathways, and planning cadences
• Establish and standardize operating models, processes, and execution standards across Portfolio Operations and the broader PMO
• Ensure IBP is effectively integrated with key business processes (e.g., portfolio reviews, financial planning, cross-functional planning cycles)

Cross-Functional Leadership

• Partner with senior leaders across R&D, Commercial, Operations, Quality and Regulatory and others to align IBP inputs, priorities, and execution
• Serve as a connector across ADC portfolios, ensuring alignment between planning and delivery
• Lead executive-level IBP reviews, enabling senior leadership decision-making through clear insights, scenario analysis, and prioritization trade-offs

Talent Leadership & Capability Building

• Lead and align a multi-capability portfolio operations team to drive cohesive execution

Experience You'll Bring

Required Qualifications

• Minimum 7 years experience as a program/portfolio leadership within a global, matrixed, preferably including experience with consumer-focused medical or software products.

Preferred Qualifications

• Typically, the incumbent would have a Bachelors or Master's degree in a business or a technical discipline. MBA desirable.
• Cross-functional experience in the areas of R&D, Commercial, Clinical, Regulatory, Quality, and Manufacturing
• Knowledge of regulations and standards related to medical devices (eg FDA, ISO, QSR design controls).
• Demonstrated ability to lead enterprise-level portfolios and influence senior stakeholders, and to collaborate effectively with global stakeholders across multiple time zones.
• Deep expertise in governance design, operating models, and portfolio prioritization
• Strong executive communication and decision-making skills
• Proven track record of building and developing high-performing teams
• Experience with portfolio management tools and reporting frameworks preferred
• Demonstrated ability to work with a wide variety of people at all levels of the organization within a variety of departments.
• Strong leadership, and the ability to collect information from multiple sources, and synthesize, integrate, and resolve conflicting requirements and cross-functional issues.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

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Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that can help you build your future and live your best life. Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity.

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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 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 through the design and provision of device and management solutions for the treatment of 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.

Abbott Molecular is a leader in molecular diagnostics and the analysis of DNA, RNA, and proteins at the molecular level.

Our Point of Care diagnostic portfolio spans key heath and therapeutic areas, including infections 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 are 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.

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 live

     

The base pay for this position is

$172,000.00 – $344,000.00

In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.

     

JOB FAMILY:

Project Management

     

DIVISION:

ADC Diabetes Care

        

LOCATION:

United States > Alameda : 2601 Harbor Bay Parkway

     

ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS:

     

WORK SHIFT:

Standard

     

TRAVEL:

Not specified

     

MEDICAL SURVEILLANCE:

Not Applicable

     

SIGNIFICANT WORK ACTIVITIES:

Continuous sitting for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day)

     

Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer of Minorities/Women/Individuals with Disabilities/Protected Veterans.

     

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