Director, Program Management – Business Enablement

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 and is responsible for the Business Enablement portfolio, spanning customer experience, commercial enablement and quality programs. This role ensures end-to-end program orchestration, from development through deployment and scale, across global markets and includes oversight of all cross-functional programs in the portfolio. Unlike program-level roles, the G22 leader owns the portfolio system (governance, prioritization, and operating model) that enables consistent, high-quality execution of initiatives at scale. Key projects may include (1) global website platforms for commercial and ecommerce sites (2) implementation of new AI tools that enhance customer service agent productivity and improve customer experience (3) building a roadmap that enables personalized marketing

This position operates at an enterprise level, supporting the translation of business objectives into actional projects and programs through established business controls and integrated business planning process. The Program Management Director will lead across a highly matrixed environment, ensuring alignment to strategy while driving execution excellence and building organizational capability.

What You’ll Work On

Business Enablement Portfolio Leadership

• Translate enterprise and divisional strategy into executable portfolio plans and prioritized roadmaps
• Ensure all business enablement portfolio initiatives align to product roadmap, Integrated Business Planning (IBP), and strategic priorities
• Orchestrate dependencies across
  • Product ecosystems
  • Business enablement systems
  • Internal functions (BTS/IT, Regulatory, Quality, Commercial, Global Strategic Marketing)
• Resolve cross-system constraints impacting delivery timelines

Portfolio Governance and Operating Model

• Define and lead portfolio governance structures (e.g., PMR, intake and prioritization processes)
• Establish decision frameworks, escalation pathways, and performance tracking mechanisms
• Ensure disciplined execution through repeatable processes and consistent standards
• G22 leaders are responsible for building operating structures and governance at scale

Launch Readiness & Delivery Excellence

• Define and enforce go-live readiness criteria across programs:
  • Development maturity
  • Quality controls
  • Commercial launch preparedness
• Drive consistent, high-quality execution across global product launches and releases

Executive Communication & Decision Support

• Provide clear, decision-oriented insights to senior leadership
• Frame options, trade-offs, and recommendations for portfolio decisions
• Ensure timely escalation of issues requiring executive alignment

Talent Leadership & PMO Capability

• Build and lead a high-performing project and program leadership organization (G18–G21)
• Develop succession pipelines and leadership capability across the PMO
• Drive adoption of best practices, tools, and standard ways of working

Experience You'll Bring

Required Qualifications

• Minimum 7 years experience in program/portfolio leadership within a global, matrixed team, preferably including experience with consumer-focused medical or software products.
• Associates Degree (+/- 13 years)

Preferred Qualifications

• Cross-functional experience in the areas of Commercial, BTS/IT and Quality
• 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
• 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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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

$197,300.00 – $394,700.00

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

     

JOB FAMILY:

Project Management

     

DIVISION:

ADC Diabetes Care

        

LOCATION:

United States > Alameda : 1360-1380 South Loop Road

     

ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS:

     

WORK SHIFT:

Standard

     

TRAVEL:

Yes, 10 % of the Time

     

MEDICAL SURVEILLANCE:

No

     

SIGNIFICANT WORK ACTIVITIES:

Continuous sitting for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day), Continuous standing for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day), Keyboard use (greater or equal to 50% of the workday)

     

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

     

EEO is the Law link - English: http://webstorage.abbott.com/common/External/EEO_English.pdf

     

EEO is the Law link - Espanol: http://webstorage.abbott.com/common/External/EEO_Spanish.pdf