Senior Project Manager PPMO R&D - Nutrition - Columbus, OH

abbott; Kentucky; On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

HIP PPO

Retirement plan

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Abbott in Columbus, OH seeks a Senior Project Manager PPMO - R&D to lead cross-functional teams, drive decision readiness, and frame risks and tradeoffs to deliver complex projects on scope, timeline, and budget. You will coach other PMs and manage multi-project portfolios within a fast-moving R&D environment.

Responsibilities include establishing project plans, forecasting, tracking expenditures, maintaining documentation, and ensuring clear communication across functional areas.

Qualifications

• Experience coordinating cross-functional teams to deliver complex projects.
• Ability to identify risks, tradeoffs and guide decisions.
• Strong planning, forecasting and budget management skills.

Responsibilities

• Drive decision readiness by identifying critical decision points and framing options.
• Lead cross-functional teams across multiple projects and maintain alignment.
• Establish and manage project plans, timelines and budgets.
• Provide forecasting, tracking and oversight of project expenditures.
• Mentor other PMs to elevate performance and ensure deliverables.

Skills

Stakeholder alignment

Cross-functional teams

Risk framing

Project planning

PMO leadership

Tools

PM software

Job description

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Senior Project Manager PPMO - R&D

About Abbott

Working at Abbott

Our nutrition business develops science-based nutrition products for people of all ages, from helping babies and children grow to keeping adult bodies strong and active. Millions of people around the world count on our leading brands – including Similac®, PediaSure®, Pedialyte®, Ensure®, and Glucerna® – to help them get the nutrients they need to live their healthiest lives.

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’ll also have access to:

• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.
• Employees can qualify forfree medical coverage in ourHealth Investment Plan (HIP) PPOmedical plan in the next calendar year.
• An excellent retirement savings plan with a 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 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

Our location in Columbus, OH, currently has an opportunity for a Senior Project Manager PPMO - R&D

In Research & Development (R&D) our ambition is to provide innovative high-quality products, creating sustainable value, delivering superior user experience and enhancing health outcomes at all stages of life.

Primary Function:

• Serve as a strategic partner to cross-functional teams by driving stakeholder alignment, facilitating informed decision-making, framing risks and tradeoffs, and guiding teams through ambiguity to achieve successful project outcomes.

• Projects will include line extensions, reformulations, new products, new manufacturing processes and new packages.

• Plan projects by establishing timelines & budgets. Identify opportunities to improve project planning and forecast accuracy.
• Lead cross-functional teams through complex and evolving challenges while providing structure, clarity, and direction. Identify and address synergies and/or conflicts across multiple projects.
• Coach/guide/lead other PMs to elevate their level of performance in the above areas.
• This position will work with limited supervision; is accountable for all project deliverables.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Drive decision readiness by identifying critical decision points, synthesizing complex information, framing alternatives, and ensuring stakeholders have the insights needed to make timely, informed decisions.

• Participate in project assessments and ensure project scope and success criteria are clearly outlined.
• Establish clear priorities among project activities and develop and manage project plans to meet deliverables.
• Manage cross-functional project timeline and follow‑up with project team members to ensure timely completion of tasks.
• Provide cross-functional forecasting, tracking, reporting and oversight on project budget and expenditures.
• Maintain documentation and provide data management for project deliverables; identify communication plans for knowledge sharing across functional areas and project teams.
• Proactively identify changes in project scope and assure appropriate measures are taken to reassess and amend requirements, budget and timeline.
• Manage project plan in Project Management (PM) software through lifecycle and maintain resource and financial allocations. Maintain documentation,