Strategic Pricing & Contracting PMO Leader

Abbott (abbottcareers2 board); Town of Texas (WI); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Abbott is seeking a Strategic Pricing & Contracting PMO Leader for an onsite role in the United States. The position focuses on driving process improvements through pricing, rebates, and contract implementation teams, increasing capacity, and improving efficiency.

You will lead projects that standardize processes and optimize the operating model while leveraging AI and existing systems. The role requires strong governance, project management, and cross-functional collaboration with IT,

Qualifications

• Experience leading pricing and contracting initiatives.
• Strong PMO and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to drive process improvements and standardization.

Responsibilities

• Lead pricing & contracting process-improvement projects end-to-end.
• Drive enterprise transformation initiatives: standardization, operating model optimization, tech enablement.
• Develop governance frameworks and executive dashboards to ensure accountability.

Skills

Pricing strategy

Contracting processes

PMO leadership

Stakeholder management

Process improvement

Tools

CLM

CPQ

Lean/Six Sigma

Job description

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 resourc