Strategic Pricing & Contracting PMO Leader

Thornton Tomasetti; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 99,000 - 199,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

HIP medical plan

Retirement plan

Tuition reimbursement

FreeU education benefit

Job summary

Abbott is seeking a Strategic Pricing & Contracting, PMO Leader to drive process improvements and organizational transformation. Based onsite in Austin, TX or Alpharetta, GA, you will lead pricing, contracting, and technology enablement initiatives across multiple business units, coordinating with IT and commercial teams.

Bring 5+ years of project management in regulated healthcare industries, strong stakeholder management, and experience with CLM/CPQ implementations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business or Life Sciences or equivalent combination of education and work experience.
• Minimum 5 years project management, leading cross-functional initiatives in Pricing & Contracting, Rebates in medical device industries.
• Experience leading complex business transformations, process improvement, or technology implementations in regulated industries.
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams through organizational change and influence without authority.
• Strong executive-level communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience supporting CLM, CPQ, CRM, ERP, workflow automation, or related initiatives.
• Proficiency with project management tools such as Smartsheet, MS Project, Monday.com.
• Familiarity with AI, Agile, Waterfall, or Hybrid methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Lead pricing & contracting process improvement projects to shorten turnaround times and increase capacity.
• Drive enterprise transformation initiatives focusing on standardization and operating model optimization.
• Facilitate workshops to identify automation and standardization opportunities.
• Leverage lean, six sigma, and AI to reduce waste and raise productivity.
• Own integrated project plans including schedule, scope, risk, resources, and budgets.
• Establish governance frameworks and executive steering for alignment and accountability.
• Create and maintain project artifacts such as charters, maps, risk logs, dashboards.
• Serve as primary contact for stakeholders with clear updates and risk escalation.
• Collaborate with IT, Commercial Systems, and suppliers to implement CLM, CPQ, and other enablement tools.
• Drive consensus across functions to resolve priority and resource conflicts.
• Mentor teams on PM, governance, and change management best practices.

Skills

Pricing & Contracting

Project management

Cross-functional leadership

Lean Six Sigma

AI tools

Stakeholder management

Change management

CPQ/CRM/ERP experience

Education

Bachelor's Degree - Business/Life Sciences

Tools

Smartsheet

MS Project

Monday.com

CRM

ERP

Job description

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 115,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

JOB DESCRIPTION: Abbott is a global healthcare leader, creating breakthrough science to improve people’s health. We’re always looking towards the future, anticipating changes in medical science and technology. Working at Abbott At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and 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 for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year.
• An excellent retirement savings plan with 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 around the world and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.

The Opportunity

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. For years, Abbott's medical device businesses have offered technologies that are faster, more effective, and less invasive. Whether it's glucose monitoring systems, innovative therapies for treating heart disease, or products that help people with chronic pain or movement disorders, our medical device technologies are designed to help people live their lives better and healthier. Every day, our technologies help more than 10,000 people have healthier hearts, improve quality of life for thousands of people living with chronic pain and movement disorders, and liberate more than 500,000 people with diabetes from routine fingersticks.

This is a fully onsite role. Our location in Austin, TX or Alpharetta, GA currently has an opportunity for a Strategic Pricing & Contracting, Project Management Office Leader (PMO). This role will be focused on driving process improvements through the EA Ops pricing & contracting, Rebates, and contract implementation teams. This role will lead projects that increase capacity, drive efficiency, and reduce variation through eliminating wasteful activities, leverage best practices, improving contracting turnaround times, and leverages AI and existing systems. This role will play a vital role in supporting our ongoing integration of CLM and CPQ systems.

What You’ll Work On

• Lead and manage pricing & contracting process improvement projects focused on improving turnaround times, process efficiency, eliminate waste and increase capacity.
• Lead enterprise transformation initiatives focused on process standardization, operating model optimization, technology enablement, and continuous improvement, ensuring delivery on time, within scope, budget, quality, and compliance standards
• Facilitate current-state and future-state process design workshops to identify opportunities for automation, standardization, and improved customer experience.
• Leverage lean, six sigma, and AI tools to eliminate waste, reduce variation, and increase productivity.
• Own integrated project plans, including schedule, scope, risk, resources, dependencies, and financials
• Establish project governance frameworks, executive steering committees, and decision-making processes to ensure alignment and accountability across stakeholder groups.
• Develop and maintain key project artifacts including project charters, current and future state mapping, communication plans, risk and issue logs, status reports, and executive level dashboards
• Serve as the primary point of contact for key stakeholders, providing clear, concise updates and proactively escalating risks, decisions, or changes
• Partner closely with SMEs across EA Operations, Sales, Business Units, and Strategy to gather requirements, align deliverables, and drive execution
• Partner with IT, Commercial Systems, and third-party supplier teams to define business requirements and support implementation of CLM, CPQ, pricing, reporting, workflow automation, and other business enablement solutions.
• Drive alignment and decision making across functions to resolve priority, scope, and resource conflicts
• Influence stakeholders without direct authority and facilitate consensus among groups with competing priorities and objectives.
• Anticipate and manage project risks, proactively addressing resource constraints, scope changes, and timeline impacts
• Lead organizational change management activities including stakeholder assessments, communication strategies, adoption planning, training coordination, and post-implementation stabilization.
• Evaluate organizational readiness and proactively mitigate adoption, process, technology, and compliance risks.
• Mentor project teams and business stakeholders on project management, process improvement, governance, and change management best practices.

Education and Experience YOU’LL BRING

• Bachelors Degree - Business, Life Sciences Or An equivalent combination of education and work experience
• Minimum 5 years project management, with a proven track record of leading cross functional initiatives in Pricing & Contracting, Rebates in Medical Device industries.
• Experience leading complex business transformation, process improvement, or technology implementation initiatives within medical device, healthcare, pharmaceutical, or other highly regulated industries.
• Demonstrated experience managing complex dependencies, multiple stakeholders, and competing priorities
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams through organizational change and influence decision making without direct authority
• Strong executive level communication and stakeholder management skills
• Proven ability to deliver projects end to end, not just coordinate tasks
• Experience working cross functional within pricing, contracting, contract implementation, or compliance driven environments
• Experience supporting CLM, CPQ, CRM, ERP, workflow automation, digital transformation, or commercial operations technology initiatives
• Experience developing business cases, executive presentations, and value realization frameworks.
• Proficiency with project management tools such as Smartsheet, MS Project, Monday.com, or equivalent
• Familiarity with AI capabilities, Agile, Waterfall, or Hybrid Methodologies

The base pay for this position is $99,300.00 – $198,700.00 In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.

JOB FAMILY: Project Management DIVISION: MD Medical Devices LOCATION: United States > Austin : 8701 Bee Caves Rd ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS: United States > Alpharetta : 3650 Mansell Road WORK SHIFT: Standard TRAVEL: Not specified MEDICAL SURVEILLANCE: Not Applicable SIGNIFICANT WORK ACTIVITIES: Continuous sitting for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day), Keyboard use (greater or equal to 50% of the workday)

Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer of Minorities/Women/Individuals with Disabilities/Protected Veterans.

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Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity.

Abbott is about the power of health. For more than 135 years, Abbott has been helping people reach their potential — because better health allows people and communities to achieve more. With a diverse, global network serving customers in more than 160 countries, we create new solutions — across the spectrum of health, around the world, for all stages of life. Whether it’s next-generation diagnostics, life-changing devices, science-based nutrition, or novel reformulations, we are advancing some of the most innovative and revolutionary technologies in healthcare, helping people live their best lives through better health. The people of Abbott come to work each day with relentless energy, enthusiasm and a promise to enhance the health and well-being of millions of people. They push the boundaries to help manage and treat some of life’s greatest health challenges.

We invite you to explore opportunities at Abbott, to see if your talents and career aspirations may fit with our openings.