Strategic Pricing & Contracting PMO Leader

Abbott Laboratories; Austin, Northern (TX, KY); Hybrid; USD 99,000 - 199,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Retirement plan

Tuition reimbursement

Onsite wellness programs

Job summary

Abbott is seeking a Strategic Pricing & Contracting PMO Leader in the United States, with responsibilities across pricing, rebates, and contract implementation teams at onsite locations in Austin, TX or Alpharetta, GA.

You will lead enterprise transformation, standardize processes, and ensure on-time delivery within scope, budget, and quality while guiding stakeholders and leveraging AI, Lean and Six Sigma to boost productivity.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of project management experience leading cross-functional initiatives in Pricing & Contracting, Rebates in medical device industries.
• Experience leading complex business transformation, process improvement, or technology implementation initiatives within healthcare, medical devices, or regulated industries.
• Demonstrated ability to manage complex dependencies, multiple stakeholders, and competing priorities.
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams through organizational change and influence without direct authority.
• Experience developing business cases, executive presentations, and value realization frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Lead 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.
• Facilitate current-state and future-state process design workshops to identify opportunities for automation and standardization.
• Leverage lean, six sigma, and AI tools to eliminate waste 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 across stakeholder groups.
• Develop and maintain project artifacts including charters, state mapping, communication plans, risk logs, and dashboards.
• Serve as the main contact for stakeholders, providing updates and escalating risks when needed.
• Partner with IT, Commercial Systems, and third-party teams to implement CLM, CPQ, pricing, and reporting solutions.
• Drive alignment and manage resource conflicts; mentor teams on PM best practices.

Skills

Pricing & Contracting

Project Management

Lean Six Sigma

AI Tools

Stakeholder Management

Change Management

Cross-functional Leadership

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Business, Life Sciences, or related field

Tools

Smartsheet

MS Project

Monday.com

CPQ

CLM

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.

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

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

• 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.

Learn more about our health and wellness benefits, which provide the security to help you and your family live full lives: www.abbottbenefits.com

Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that can help you build your future and live your best life.

Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity. Connect with us at www.abbott.com, on Facebook at www.facebook.com/Abbottand on Twitter @AbbottNews and @AbbottGlobal

The base pay for this position is $99,300.00 – $198,700.00

Familia de Cargo Project Management Divisão MD Medical Devices Localidade United States > Austin : 8701 Bee Caves Rd Localidades Adicionais United States > Alpharetta : 3650 Mansell Road Turno de Trabalho Standard Viagem Not specified Vigilância médica Not Applicable Atividades de trabalho significativas 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.

EEO is the Law link - English: http://webstorage.abbott.com/common/External/EEO_English.pdf

EEO is the Law link - Espanol: http://webstorage.abbott.com/common/External/EEO_Spanish.pdf

A Abbott significa o poder da saúde. Por mais de 125 anos, a Abbott tem ajudado as pessoas a alcançar seu potencial — porque uma saúde melhor permite que indivíduos e comunidades vivam melhor. Com uma rede global e diversificada, que serve clientes em mais de 160 países, criamos novas soluções — em todo o espectro da saúde, em todo o mundo, para todas as fases da vida. Seja através da próxima geração de equipamentos de diagnóstico, dispositivos médicos para estilos de vida em transformação, nutrição baseada em ciência, ou novas reformulações, estamos desenvolvendo tecnologias mais inovadoras e revolucionárias na área da saúde para que indivíduos vivam melhor e com mais saúde. Os colaboradores da Abbott vêm trabalhar todos os dias com energia, entusiasmo e comprometimento com o intuito de promover a saúde e o bem-estar de milhões de pessoas. Eles superam os limites para ajudar a gerenciar e tratar alguns dos maiores desafios de saúde da vida. Convidamos você a explorar as oportunidades na Abbott, a ver se seus talentos e aspirações de carreira podem se encaixar com as nossas vagas.

A Abbott é uma empresa que oferece oportunidades iguais e acolhe e incentiva a diversidade em nossa força de trabalho.

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