Manager IT 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 122,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Job Title

Manager, IT Applications

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 position works out of the 1 Exact Lane Madison, WI location in the Diagnostics division. 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.

As the Manager, IT Integrations, you'll have the chance to manage one of the Epic Application Teams in Abbott's Cancer Diagnostics division. This position performs a key role in leading their team in the delivery of technology for critical business processes, integration of acquisitions, and partnering with enterprise architecture to plan, design, and deliver a highly customized and innovative global IT eco-system. The candidate must collaborate with business and technology teams to maximize the value of the platform by balancing unique functional requirements with the design principle for common configuration solutions to optimize risk, cost, and speed of delivery. Additionally, this role is also responsible for the professional development of the analysts supporting the applications, providing feedback and opportunities for education, growth, and leadership.

What You'll Work On

Including, but are not limited to, the following:

• Collaborate with product owners and business partners across multiple business functions to align technology solutions with business strategies.
• Plan, design, and deliver programs to integrate products and processes from acquisitions onto assigned enterprise platform(s).
• Propose delivery priorities with multiple business and/or business solution teams.
• Support a cross-functional enterprise platform governance board to establish, recommend, and adjust priorities with changing business needs.
• Collaborate with enterprise architecture to position the platform within the overall Abbott enterprise architecture and strategy, identifying, and managing integration dependencies and plans.
• Ensure adequate system monitoring and reporting is established for assigned platform(s); measure the performance of platforms and participate in incident management activities for critical incidents, outages, or other performance issues.
• Guide the evaluations of new IT solutions, make product selections, and lead implementations.
• Oversee a process for intaking, prioritizing, and delivering incremental releases of functionality.
• Closely work with process owners from various departments to build and maintain process workflows scalable across the business/various business units.
• Accomplish results by communicating job expectations; planning, monitoring, and appraising job results; coaching, counseling, and disciplining employees; initiating, coordinating, and enforcing systems, policies, and procedures.
• Supervise staff; including, but not limited to, organize, and prioritize work, write/conduct performance reviews, train/develop, and manage work performance.
• Communicate goals clearly to employees to ensure understanding and success in achieving them.
• Motivate and inspire employees to do their best work through coaching.
• Maintain morale and support employee engagement initiatives.
• Work independently with little oversight and direction, maintaining organization while multi-tasking.
• Make excellent use of communication skills. 
• Operate in a cross-cultural and complex matrix environment and build consensus across functions.
• Demonstrate adaptability and ability to work nimbly in ambiguous situations and respond to new information or unexpected circumstances
• Demonstrate ability to negotiate, mitigate conflict, build alliances, and achieve desired results using strong interpersonal and diplomacy skills.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Business Administration, or related field; or High School Degree/General Education Diploma and 4 years of relevant experience in lieu of Bachelor’s Degree.  
• 5+ years of experience in information technology or product/project management experience. 
• 3+ years of experience in large and complex implementations related to assigned platform and using program management and software development lifecycle (SDLC) project management methodologies. 
• 3+ years of experience directly or indirectly leading a technology team or cross functional project team on implementation of a technology solution. 
• Demonstrated project delivery involving complex business workflows or system architectures. 
• Professional working knowledge of a variety of software and hardware solutions; multi-vendor environments and hybrid environment of on premise, co-located, and cloud-based services. 
• Proficient in Microsoft Office. 
• Demonstrated ability to perform the Essential Duties of the position with or without accommodation.  
• Authorization to work in the United States without sponsorship.  
• Certification in at least one Epic admin-level application certifications.

Preferred Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in similar or relevant role. 
• Applicable certifications/proficiencies with preference given to Epic RTE, Epic Referrals, Epic Prelude, Epic Cadence

• Professional working knowledge in Health Care or Biotechnology. 
• Professional working knowledge with agile delivery methodologies. 

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Learn more about our health and wellness benefits, which provide the security to help you and your family live full lives: https://abbottbenefits.com/

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.

Connect with us at abbott.com, on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/company/abbott-/, and on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/AbbottCareers.

The base pay for this position is

$99,300.00 – $198,700.00

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

JOB FAMILY:

IT Services & Solutions Delivery

DIVISION:

ONCO Cancer Diagnostics

LOCATION:

United States > Madison : 1 Exact Lane

ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS:

WORK SHIFT:

Standard

TRAVEL:

No

MEDICAL SURVEILLANCE:

No

SIGNIFICANT WORK ACTIVITIES:

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