Now Hiring - Regulatory Affairs Project Manager – Training and DEI Change Management in Abbott Park, IL

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.

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 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.
• 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 works out of our Lake County 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.

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.

What You’ll Work On

Primary Responsibilities

The Regulatory Project Manager is responsible for developing, executing, managing, and supporting projects and initiatives, primarily focused on Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) project and initiatives.

• Engages with DEI workstreams and organization management to understand and align on strategic DEI priorities; supports execution of strategy
• Collaborates with DEI workstreams and organization management to identify workstream goals, objectives, and deliverables; initiates and manages DEI projects and initiatives, tracks progress against goals, and manages resource requests; collaborates with a global cross-disciplinary team to achieve project and initiative objectives
• Keeps current with, identifies, and shares global diversity, equity and inclusion-related trends and benchmarking; coordinates with internal and external teams related to DEI
• Translate business objectives into effective learning solutions by collaborating across the organization.
• Develops and executes a project plan obtaining authorized resources to ensure all activities are performed. Gathers lessons learned and obtains final project approval from sponsor and stakeholders
• Communicates project progress and coordinates meeting agendas by producing project reports to provide timely and accurate project status and decision support information to sponsors, leads, and project teams
• Coordinates resources to ensure project needs are addressed; effectively assigns tasks and deliverables to team members based upon their abilities and availability; and takes initiative to identify and escalate issues, as appropriate
• Ensures that roles and responsibilities are clearly defined and communicated for all identified stakeholders and resources at the project, workstream, and program level
• Create and maintains central location of training tools for entire organization.
• Drive learner engagement through surveys, focus groups, and qualitative analysis and feedback.

Required Qualifications

• Associates degree
• 7 years of experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
• Minimum seven years relevant experience
• Extensive experience with project management and general business principles required
• Consistent and strong attention to detail, good judgement, and strong time management skills
• Experience managing projects in complex, matrixed, global environments
• Strong written and oral communication skills
• Excellent interpersonal and relationship building skills; ability to communicate and interact with colleagues across all levels of the organization, including senior leadership
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications
• Previous knowledge and/or background related to corporate DEI change management initiatives strongly preferred
• Ability to interact with diverse organizations and cultures, and ability to influence others within and outside of job area
• Previous background in training development and roll-out strongly preferred
• Previous experience in IT tools deployment desired, such as Website development, SharePoint tools, Instructional Design, etc.

• 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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