Senior R&D Program Manager

Job Description

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
• 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 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 around the world and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune

This position works onsite from our Westford, MA location, supporting the Abbott Vascular division.

Abbott Vascular provides innovative, minimally invasive, and cost-effective products for treatment of vascular disease. Our extensive portfolio includes stents, guide wires, balloon dilatation catheters, imaging catheters and hardware/software, vessel preparation devices, vessel closure devices, and thrombectomy devices.

At the Westford site, the Abbott Vascular team designs, develops, and manufactures products that are used for intravascular imaging. These products include disposable imaging catheters as well as equipment with complex hardware and software.

The Senior Program Manager, R&D manages the development and implementation process of company's products and services involving departmental or cross-functional teams focused on the delivery of new or existing products.

As a Senior R&D Program Manager, you will oversee the product development and execution of complex software and hardware projects, ensuring alignment with business goals, development timelines, and budgets. You will act as the bridge between engineering teams, stakeholders, and leadership, optimizing workflows and enhancing productivity.

Abbott's intravascular imaging team is at the forefront of innovation, building cutting-edge AI software and hardware solutions. Our team thrives on creativity, collaboration, and a passion for delivering high-quality, scalable technologies.

We are looking for an experienced Senior R&D Program Manager to lead critical projects, drive strategic initiatives, and ensure seamless execution across teams. We are looking for a strategic thinker with a passion for software, system and hardware capital development and program execution.

What You'll Work On:

• Ensure alignment of development programs with business strategy.
• Responsible for managing complex R&D product development programs involving multiple cross-functional teams focused on advancing the R&D pipeline.
• Leads and coordinates cross-functional team activities from Concept Phase through Product Launch Phase.
• Plans and organizes interdepartmental and cross-functional activities ensuring completion of the programs to timelines, and within budget constraints.
• Facilitates decision making through project management tools and cross-functional input.
• Analyzes complex problems, including those related to project risks; monitors risks and develops contingencies along the program path.
• Effectively communicates milestones and critical paths for each program and the portfolio to teams, peers, and executive staff audiences.
• Responsible for completing documentation in a timely manner and in accordance with business and quality standards
• Travel up to 20% of the time both domestically and internationally by any means necessary to support organizational goals
• Understand and comply with applicable EHS policies, procedures, rules and regulations
• Responsible for implementing and maintaining the effectiveness of the Quality System
• Responsible for compliance with applicable Corporate and Divisional Policies and procedures

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree (preferably in Engineering, science or a closely related discipline is desired) or equivalent technical experience and demonstrated competence; additional post-graduate education may contribute toward the desired years of experience.
• Requires minimum 11+ years of work experience
• Minimum 10 years of experience in R&D engineering experience
• Experience designing and testing medical devices required preferably interventional cardiology devices. Experience with a variety of manufacturing processes and designing for manufacturability required.

Project leadership and management skill required

Experience working in a broader enterprise/cross division business unit model preferred. Ability to work in a highly matrixed and geographically diverse business environment. Ability to work effectively within a team in a fast-paced changing environment.

Strong leadership skills, including the ability to set goals and provide positive and constructive feedback respectfully to build positive relationships and improve business results.

Strong verbal and written communications with ability to effectively communicate at multiple levels in the organization. Multi-tasks, prioritizes and meets deadlines in timely manner. Strong organizational, planning, and follow-up skills and ability to hold others accountable.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 10 years of experience in complex, technical program / project management, or other product development leadership roles
• Extensive medical device development experience with complex devices involving both disposable and capital equipment that incorporates hardware and software
• Skilled in project planning and execution
• Strong decision-making, problem-solving, and stakeholder management skills
• Working knowledge of new product development methodologies
• Ability to be creative in achieving objectives while assuring compliance to internal and external requirements
• Ability or aptitude to work on problems that are complex in scope where analysis of situations or data involves multiple competing factors
• Ability to form and develop interpersonal, professional relationships
• Display socially and professionally appropriate behavior
• Ability to work independently and in groups
• Ability to work cross-functionally

Strong background in Agile methodologies and development lifecycles.

Familiarity with cloud-based solutions, SaaS, or enterprise software is a strong plus.

Proficiency in Jira, Confluence, or similar project management tools.

Job Family: Product Development

Division: AVD Vascular

Location: United States > Massachusetts > Westford : 4 Robbins Road

Work Shift: Standard

Travel: Yes, 10 % of the Time