Global Product Manager
Abbott
Compensation
About the role
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.
Responsibilities
- Conduct market research and competitive analysis with a focus on cloud-native trends, multi-cloud strategies, and platform capabilities
- Benchmark best-in-class cloud solutions and emerging technologies to support data and ML/AI capabilities
- Collaborate with stakeholders to gather and prioritize cloud-specific requirements, including scalability, security, and compliance
- Define product strategy and roadmap for cloud-based offerings, including SaaS, PaaS, and hybrid deployments
- Conduct market research, competitor analysis, and customer feedback to identify market needs and use cases
- Prioritize features based on clients' business value and feedback
- Champion business model innovation, and industry leading, digital friendly methodologies to guide capital allocation and measure customer and business success
- Conduct product discovery sessions, internally and externally
- Stay at the forefront of industry trends by participating in marketing leading events and speaking engagements
- Oversee the product lifecycle from ideation to launch and post-launch activities
- Integrate usability studies, research, and market analysis into product requirements to improve engineer productivity and enhance user satisfaction
- Develop detailed product epics, features, stories and acceptance criteria
- Coordinate with engineering, design, and quality assurance teams to ensure timely and high-quality product documentation development, updates and delivery
- Foster strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including business units, clients, and vendors
- Partner with Marketing and Sales to update product playbooks and supplemental training materials to ensure consistent, up-to-date product feature/benefit and technical knowledge exists across the org
- Define key performance indicators (KPIs) and metrics to track the success and impact of software products
- Analyze data and user feedback to evaluate product performance, identify areas for improvement, and inform decision-making
- Prepare regular reports and presentations to demonstrate product achievements and address challenges
- Complies with regulatory requirements, Company policies, operating procedures, processes, and task assignments
- Maintains positive and cooperative communications and collaboration with all levels of employees, customers, contractors, and vendors
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Marketing, Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or a related field
- 4+ years of experience in product management roles, preferably in software development or technology-driven organizations
- Proven track record of managing successful IT/software products from conception to launch and post-launch activities
- Ability to travel 10%
- Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously, prioritize tasks, and meet deadlines
- Strong organizational skills, attention to detail, and a proactive approach to problem-solving
- Ability to think strategically and translate business objectives into actionable product plans
- Ability to deliver clear and compelling presentations to diverse audiences, including executives, customers, and technical teams
- Experience with creating product documentation, release notes, and training materials
- Budget management skills
- Agency management skills
- 6+ years of experience in a similar role
- MBA
- Product management experience in medical products or services preferred
- Strong presentation & communication skills, strategic planning
- Critical thinking and analysis of market conditions
Benefits
- Free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan
- An excellent retirement savings plan with a high employer contribution
- Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program, and FreeU education benefit
- 401k matching
- Health insurance
- Flight privileges
About the Company
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.
Job Details
Salary Range
Salary not disclosed
Location
Lake Forest, Illinois, U.S.
Employment Type
Full-time, Regular
Original Posting
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