Global Business Capabilities Director - Digital Activation

Location:LakeForest,IL

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’llalso 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 Savestudent debt program, and FreeUeducation benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree.

• A company recognized asa great placeto 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

As our Director of DHS Business Capability, youare responsible forleading and managing the DHS business deployment, implementation and adoption of the capabilities and processesrequiredto deliver a digital solution within the organization. Working with the business stakeholders, youare responsible foraligning the Digital solutions capabilities with the overall business strategy,objectives, and goals of the organization.

WHAT YOU’LL WORK ON

• Implement standardized project planning and control processesand ensure tools are effectively used across all ADD projects.

• Establish processes to support project managementstandardization

• Providedivision-wide perspective to focus on root issues and solutions for project execution (not technical issues). Acts as a catalyst and key interface with project managers, PDMRB, and Core R&D toestablishand maintain effective project management practices. -Facilitate portfolio and resource management as part of the annual SDP process.

• Ensurethe proposed SDPs are based on realistic timelines. -Educate/train project managers, project team members, timeline coordinators, and functional areas on key initiatives such as the Prochainmethodology, systems management, aggregated resource management, program integration, etc. across the Division.

• Accountable for Project Management Office scope, strategy, and programs.

• Leads others in the application of project management practices and standards.

• Accountable fordemonstratingcontinual improvement in effective completion of projects and sub-projects in the Division.

• Reports toSeniorLeadership Steering Committee, chaired by the VP Assays and Systems.

• Solicit the cooperation of a diverse group of disciplines and functions to meet product development needs.

• Digital Solutions offered by the organization meet the needs and expectations of its customers and stakeholders.

• Integration into the Businesses serves as the counterpart of the Archetype Process & Systems Excellence team,in order totranslate business requirements into new user stories and/oradditionaltechnical functionality in the existing or new tools and applications.

• Youare responsible fororganizing,prioritizingand documenting functional requirements from the businesses, understanding the downstream impact in Markets and Customers, and definingthe operational benefits (Business case). Working with business owners, architects, product management, Q&R and Market leaders contributing to vision and program backlog, streamlining the execution of program priorities whileleveragingopportunitiesofstandardization cross-business.

• Managing a teamfocuson E2E implementation of DHS capability delivery.

• Participating with other Abbott senior leaders toestablishstrategic plans andobjectivesrelated to DHS,representingcustomer/market requirements and needs

• Acting as a direct point of contact for program escalations, driving strategic direction to increase solutions adoption and productutilizationwithin the region

• Strategically and operationally advance Digital Solutions while meeting the timelines and deliverables of the business

• Mentoring the development of leaders within the DHS delivery practice, up to the senior manager level

• Selecting, developing, and evaluating digital solutions professional services subject matter experts and other staff, asrequired

• Identifyingand analyzing the digital solutions capabilities required to delivernew solutionseffectively and efficiently.

• You will develop and implement plans to improve or enhance the digital capabilities and E2E delivery processes in line with the overall business strategy andobjectives Contributing to the development and managing implementation of DHS capabilities, including processes, systems, and people.

• Ensuring that DHS capabilities are continuouslymonitoredand evaluated to ensure that theyremaineffective over time.

• Identifiesnew capabilities and processesrequiredto enable or improve digital solutions, professional services, and solutions for Abbott

• Representsthe Voice of Abbott DHS Process & Systems Excellence team, makes sure that business demands are properly documented, clarifying the positive business impact (compliance, automation, productivity), understanding the E2E business impact

• Permanent member of Design Reference Group,participatesin release planning, contributes to program increment planning, program backlog refinement and decision on prioritization based on ROI

• As a content expert has the knowledge to connect the dots, able to make an impact analysis toidentifythe benefits at Market, customer, and cross-business opportunities

• Works with the Markets and other Businessesidentifyingnew opportunities for further automation, simplification, and integration of existing and future processes

• Has the primary responsibility for being the Business SPOC towards the Archetype Process & Systems Excellence team,representingthe business interests towards those groups

• Knows the customers well and uses that knowledge in the role

• Makes data driven decisions

• Collaborate with the Archetype Capability Leader defining functional requirements as well as the user interface.Identifiesgaps between current system and client/market needs

• Coordinates with other Business Capability Experts on content dependencies, compliance, standardization andleveragingbest practices cross-B

• Facilitates inter-team dependencies in the respective iterations

• Participates in template validations, release planning sessions and user acceptance testsrepresentingthe business owner and securing that the “final product” is fit for purpose

• Work closely with Transformation Program leaders, BPOs and BPEs toidentifyand prioritize capability development and deployment roadmaps & drive adoption of the capabilities in the markets and business

• Collaborate with product & business/function teams toidentifycapability gaps and requirementsrequiredfor successful market launch and enablement

• Manages team working closely with BPEs toidentifycapability development and deployment requirements & be the ambassador of the global services capabilities in the business

REQUIREDQUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor'sin marketing, sales, product development, or related field

• 10+ years in marketing, sales, product development, or related field

• Experience in high-tech, healthcare/med-tech digital solutions businesses

• Strongtrack recorddriving digital processes in the medical space, outgrowing market.

• Strongtrack recorddeveloping, launching, and growing digital solutions offerings and innovative value propositions in the medical space.

• Proven ability to lead and develop high-performing teams.

• Strongtrack recordin strategy development & execution, preferably with consulting or business development background.

• Competencies: Team Management, People development, Influential Leadership, Cross-functional Team Leadership, Business Insight, Customer focus, Clear & effective communication, Planning, Alignment & Collaboration

• End-to-end Process Implementation, Problem analysis/identify opportunities, Delivery operational excellence, Change management, Learning ability, LEAN thinker, Continuous improvement, Requirements definition. Lean / agile Hardware/Software/ System development, Documentation management, Effort estimation

PREFERREDQUALIFICATIONS

• MBA or other master’s degree preferred

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