Remote Enterprise Project Manager - Diagnostics Deployments

Abbott Laboratories; United States; Remote; USD 113,000 - 227,000; Full time

Job summary

Abbott Laboratories is seeking an Enterprise Project Manager for the Core Diagnostics division in the Central United States, a field-based remote role. You will lead complex diagnostic deployments across facilities, manage plans, schedules, and risks, and partner with Sales, Informatics, Automation, and Clinical teams to ensure successful go-live and support.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years in healthcare or related project implementations, strong leadership, and the ability to influence without

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required.
• 5+ years of experience leading customer-facing project implementations in healthcare, healthcare IT, medical devices, diagnostics, enterprise technology, or related technical environment.
• Experience managing business-to-business implementations involving multiple stakeholders and cross-functional teams.
• Experience leading projects involving software, hardware, workflow transformation, systems integration, or operational improvement initiatives.
• Demonstrated ability to influence and lead teams without direct reporting authority.
• Ability to travel extensively throughout the Central United States to support customer implementations.

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise diagnostic implementation projects spanning multiple facilities, regions, or health systems, ensuring alignment with customer and business objectives.
• Develop and execute implementation plans, project schedules, resource strategies, and risk mitigation activities for complex customer deployments.
• Support pre-sales planning by providing implementation expertise, operational guidance, and timeline development for strategic opportunities.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for customer leadership teams throughout the implementation lifecycle.
• Facilitate executive reviews, governance meetings, project status updates, and escalation management activities.
• Translate customer requirements into actionable implementation plans that integrate hardware, software, automation, informatics, and workflow solutions.
• Coordinate project activities across Sales, Informatics, Automation, Clinical Applications, Service Engineering, Operations, and customer teams.
• Lead cross-functional teams to achieve project milestones, drive accountability, and resolve issues impacting implementation success.
• Manage stakeholder alignment when priorities, resources, or project requirements evolve.
• Oversee customer readiness, validation activities, and go-live preparation to ensure successful deployment.
• Coordinate issue resolution during implementation, testing, validation, and post-go-live support.
• Guide projects through stabilization and hyper-care support until successful project closure.

Skills

Project leadership

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional teamwork

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Abbott Laboratories is seeking an Enterprise Project Manager for the Core Diagnostics division in the Central United States, a field-based remote role. You will lead complex diagnostic deployments across facilities, manage plans, schedules, and risks, and partner with Sales, Informatics, Automation, and Clinical teams to ensure successful go-live and support.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years in healthcare or related project implementations, strong leadership, and the ability to influence without