Senior IT Manager - Enterprise, Collaboration Applications

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.

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 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!
• Free medical coverage for employees* via the Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO
• 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:

The Senior IT Manager - Enterprise, Collaboration Applications manages the product team responsible for Collaboration and Workplace Efficiency Tools. He/ She will be responsible for driving the roadmap for products, including lifecycle management, leading ideation, innovation, and driving performance. The role requires a willingness to make data-driven decisions, drive cross-functional organizational

alignment, dig into user research, and develop other PMs through management

and mentoring.

The Senior IT Manager - Enterprise, Collaboration Applications must ensure that their products deliver customer and business value, and that the value is well articulated, communicated, and

understood by both customers and internal stakeholders.

What You'll Work On:

• Lead a large functional area within an overall product portfolio as the owner of that area's performance and outcomes

• Manage the product life cycle from product definition through development, rollout, maintenance, phase out, and migration to next generation products as per customer needs
• Prioritize product opportunities using criteria and requirements defined during research
• Ensures the team has a consistent, reliable shipping momentum
• Articulates a problem statement, including complex ones, with exceptional clarity.

Strategy and Collaboration

• Liaise with commercial, legal, and regulatory partners for aligning on vision, outcomes, goals, roadmaps, business case

• Represent the voice of the customer within the organization; understand the user experience, and the evolving needs and workflows of our customers in the digital age.
• Communicates with the team, product leadership and key stakeholders frequently and effectively

Coaching

• Manage and mentor product managers taking responsibility for their growth, development, and work

• Ensure Product team adheres to product philosophy and culture of lean, iterative mindset
• Drive creation of guidelines/ practices to aid in advancement of product mindset
• Motivate and coach the product team to reach goals and achieve deliverables

Leadership

• Communicates with the team, product leadership and key stakeholders frequently and effectively
• Expertly handles ambiguity by being flexible and by creating clarity for those around them
• Proactively look for opportunity and improvement areas in the product and team
• Maintain in-depth knowledge of products, solutions, and company offerings
• Understand and tracks product metrics for usability, reviews, performance, release and velocity
• Ability to manage department budget upto 10 MM ensuring cost optimization.

Required Qualifications:

• 10+ years of experience in Product Management or Operations Management on an enterprise level.
• Proven ability to navigate complex stakeholder relationships in large organizations.
• Strong leadership and strategic thinking skills with a passion for translating findings into strategic recommendations
• Ability to define areas of potential value through user research, market research, and industry / technical understanding
• Ability to look at a set of needs across the business and identify key questions, themes, and potential for business impact
• Skilled Communicator who can create compelling product and use case strategies and gain buy-in across teams and functions
• Experience working in agile, DevOps, mobile, and cloud technologies
• Experience with Lean Product Management and User-Centered Design methodologies

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with enterprise platforms (e.g., DocuSign).
• Proficiency in collaboration tools (e.g., SharePoint, Microsoft O365 - PowerApps, Forms, Power BI).
• Exposure to Gen AI tool implementations.
• Working knowledge of AWS cloud services.
• Strong prioritization, decision-making, and communication skills.

Supervisory responsibilities:

• Oversee external vendors, including Product and Service Managers, ensuring alignment with business goals and cost optimization
• Drive vendor value and cost optimization, manage SLAs, and ensure performance accountability.
• Collaborate across business and service management functions to deliver seamless IT operations.

Misc:

This is an on-site role and NOT a remote role.

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* Participants who complete a short wellness assessment qualify for FREE coverage in our HIP PPO medical plan. Free coverage applies in the next calendar year.

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The base pay for this position is $127,300.00 - $254,700.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.