Project Manager, IT Project Manager

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United States - California - Temeculatime type:
Full time posted on:
Posted Todayjob requisition :
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 114,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.##
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* JOB DESCRIPTION:

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**** Project Manager
**** Working at Abbott
** At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and 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 of which you dream.
* 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 high employer contribution
* Tuition reimbursement, the  student debt program and  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 around the world 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 a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.
** The Opportunity
** This position can work out of any of our US Vascular sites:
Temecula, CA, Santa Clara, CA, Westford, MA, St. Paul, MN, Minnetonka, MN, Sunnyvale, CA.location in the Abbott Vascular Division. Abbott Vascular provides innovative, minimally invasive, and cost-effective products for the treatment of vascular disease.

For years, Abbott’s medical device businesses have offered technologies that are faster, more effective, and less invasive. Whether it’s glucose monitoring systems, innovative therapies for treating heart disease, or products that help people with chronic pain or movement disorders, our medical device technologies are designed to help people live their lives better and healthier. Every day, our technologies 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.

Abbott Vascular provides innovative, minimally invasive and cost-effective products for treatment of vascular disease. Our extensive portfolio includes drug-eluting stents, bare metal stents, guide wires, balloon dilatation catheters, imaging catheters and software, vessel closure devices and peripheral stents.
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* What you’ll do:

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* • Coordinate input from multiple areas or multiple project managers on related projects.  
• Develop project specifications and objectives, strategies, timelines and milestones/design and  development plan. Utilize project scheduling software to plan and track projects.  
• Identify resource requirements, cost, and time schedules. Develop an implementation plan, conduct risk  assessments and develop contingency plans to accommodate unforeseen events.  
• Lead cross-functional teams through project planning exercises to develop detailed schedules and  integrated project plans.  
• Define the nature of the stated business or technical problem.  
• Develop alternatives to major business problems. Assist management in selecting the specific action  plans that will best meet the identified long-term business issues.  
• Anticipate long-term future problems, resolve current issues, learn and adjust based on prior results and prior project leadership experience.  
• Assure that projects will effectively integrate with existing programs and strategies so that long and  short term business goals are attained.  
• Recognize the broader implications of actions and proposals on the final project outcome, related  systems and activities, and general business strategy.  
• Prepare and present project progress reports to keep management and team informed.…