Project Manager, Health Education Operations & Strategic Initiatives

Allergan; Montreal; On-site; CAD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare company in Montreal is seeking a Project Manager for Health Education Operations. The role involves overseeing operational activities, managing strategies, and optimizing processes. Ideal candidates will possess a Bachelor’s degree in a health-related field, progressive project management experience, and advanced skills in Microsoft Office. Fluency in English is essential for this position. The company promotes a diverse and inclusive workplace.

Qualifications

• Progressive experience in project management, operations, or strategic initiatives, ideally within healthcare.
• Project Management education or certification is an asset.

Responsibilities

• Oversees health education process implementation, operations and improvement initiatives.
• Collaborate closely with senior leadership to prioritize high-impact initiatives.
• Monitor project progress, manage risks, and communicate updates to key stakeholders.

Skills

Project Management

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree (health-related field preferred)

Tools

Microsoft Office

Project management tools

Job description

Company Description

AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas – immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care – and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on X, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn and Tik Tok.

Job Description

Joining AbbVie means, you will be part of a team of outstanding professionals dedicated to making a remarkable impact on patients' lives. At AbbVie, we conduct ground-breaking science on a global scale every day. AbbVie Canada is one of the Best Workplaces in Canada.

AbbVie’s mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people’s lives across several key therapeutic areas: immunology, oncology, neuroscience, eye care, virology, women’s health and gastroenterology, in addition to products and services across its Allergan Aesthetics portfolio.

When choosing your career path, choose to be remarkable.

We have an opportunity for a Project Manager, Health Education Operations and Strategic Initiatives, within our AbbVie Institute of Health Education team. In this role, you will be responsible for overseeing the operational activities related to the field team activities. The role involves managing and coordinating the execution of strategies and trainings, and optimizing processes to improve efficiency. The incumbent will report to the AbbVie Institute of Health Education Head.

Main key responsibilities:

• Oversees health education process implementation, operations and improvement initiatives.
• Identify improvement opportunities and ensure continuous improvement of processes and approaches.
• Develops tools, guidelines, checklists, timelines, and best practice documentation, to provide alignment and synergy within teams.
• Develops and maintains training documents on internal processes to ensure compliance as well as efficiency throughout the department.
• Identify training opportunities on new processes as required and oversees the planning and/or execute trainings on health education processes.
• Identify process improvement opportunities, develop actionable plans, and oversee their implementation to enhance operational efficiency.
• Oversees health education evaluation platforms and contributes to their development.
• Lead health education strategic initiatives from inception to successful execution, ensuring alignment with cross-functional stakeholders and health care professionals.
• Collaborate closely with senior leadership to prioritize and execute high-impact initiatives.
• Monitor project progress, manage risks, and communicate updates to key stakeholders, ensuring transparency and accountability throughout the project lifecycle.
• Establish and/or monitor KPIs to evaluate the effectiveness of operational and strategic initiatives, reporting outcomes to executive stakeholders.
• Develop and/or oversees departmental communications.
• Participate in internal processes improvement taskforces as required.
• Monitor and track departmental budget in collaboration with leadership.

Qualifications

Education/ Experience required:

• Bachelor’s degree (health-related field preferred).
• Progressive experience in project management, operations, or strategic initiatives, ideally within healthcare or a related industry.
• Project Management education or certification an asset.
• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint).
• Knowledge of project management tools for efficient workflow management and reporting.

Essential skills & abilities:

• Ability to think and plan strategically (work plans, activities, timetables, targeting) and operating with execution excellence.
• Demonstrated ability to build trusted relationships across a diverse range of stakeholders and business partners, actively listening to internal stakeholders to understand their needs.
• Operate calmly, and effectively, in a fast-paced environment.
• Possess a collaborative and team player mindset.
• Capacity to handle several projects at a time and ability to adjust shifting priorities and an ability to manage competing priorities.
• Capacity to work under pressure quickly and autonomously.
• Able to work independently but seek input at appropriate moments. Constantly seeking out new ways to bring different ideas and approaches to improve processes.
• High level of adaptability and resilience when facing ambiguity or changing organizational priorities.
• Strong project management skills and results driven and ability to push through barriers and challenges to achieve desirable outcomes.
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills, with an ability to assess complex situations and drive data‑informed decisions.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to effectively convey project goals, updates, and outcomes to diverse audiences.

AbbVie strives to provide a French working environment for its employees in Quebec. Although as part of its francization program has taken all reasonable steps to avoid imposing the following requirement, advanced amount of knowledge of English / Fluency in English is an essential requirement for this position, including, but not limited to, for the following reasons:

1. English speaking employees outside the province of Quebec.
2. English speaking clients outside the province of Quebec.
3. Anglophone region outside the province of Quebec

AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and encourages women, Aboriginal people, persons with disabilities and members of visible minorities to apply.

Additional Information

AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives and serving our community. Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled.

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