R&D Project Coordinator

R&D Project Coordinator

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.

This position works out of our Alameda, CA location in the Diabetes Care division where we're focused on helping people with diabetes manage their health with life-changing products that provide accurate data to drive better-informed decisions. We're revolutionizing the way people monitor their glucose levels with our new sensing technology.

The R&D Project Coordinator will be responsible for supporting cross-functional teams in the planning and execution of R&D projects. This role ensures alignment with business goals, facilitates communication, and drives project milestones to successful completion.

•Lead the team through the translation of management and customer needs into project goals. Develop a preliminary implementation plan. Propose contingency plans to respond to unforeseen events. Maintain compliance with regulatory agencies, quality system and project goals. Assure that Design Control and compliance requirements are met.

•Manages team charter including project goals. Manage the decision-making process. May function as the project contact with third party vendors. Interface with other disciplines, customers, internal clients, project staff and internal and external experts as required.

•Prepare and present written and oral reports and other presentations to internal and external audiences.

•Interprets Results/Recommends Options: Determine if results match requirements. Ensures that the necessary documentation is in place to meet quality and regulatory requirements.

•Integrates Project Activities: Develops detailed, cross functional, realistic time lines including resource requirements, plans for contingencies, estimates buffers, etc. Converts goals to tasks, gathers information regarding effort, resources, and technical complexity and translates that information into project specifications. Implements project plans to meet project goals, considers technical, resource, and regulatory requirements.

•Continuously Improves: Recommends innovative ways to improve performance, quality and enhance profitability on an ongoing basis, modifies work processes and procedures in line with current ADD quality and regulatory requirements. Works with cross-functional team to resolve resource conflicts, allocations.

•Achieves Goals: Makes and meets aggressive commitments to achieve plans and maintain progress.

•Manages Change: Evaluates the impact of project changes and adjusts implementation activities to meet revised. Clearly communicates any changes and the impact to original plan to the cross-functional team and senior management in a timely fashion.

•Drives for Results: Removes organizational barriers to achieving results. Listens actively to acquire information and understand the other person's viewpoint. Balances the time needed for accomplishing current work and planning and achieving development goals.

•Builds Relationships: Initiates and cultivates open, honest, and beneficial relationships with colleagues and customers by establishing rapport, developing an understanding of others' needs, promoting common goals and following through on commitments.

•Resolves Conflicts: Seeks out appropriate forum for conflict resolution. Faces conflicts and takes initiative to resolve them constructively, diverts tensions away from individuals and toward work issues, probes for root causes of problems, collaborates to find mutually beneficial solutions, proposes action steps and assists in implementation. Collaboratively settles disputes.

•Identifies Future Personal Development Needs: Translates changes in business goals and objectives into the skills, knowledge and experience needed for future work. Asks for and gives feedback on the strengths and development needs of self/others, creates a team environment that encourages continuous learning and growth.

•Establishes a Development Culture: Encourages the exchange of timely, direct, constructive feedback on strengths and development needs. Exercises leadership within the team with close support from manager. Actively shares resources, ideas facilities, data to accomplish goals requiring cross-functional collaboration and support.

•Confronts Issues: Confronts issues in a constructive manner and at an appropriate organizational level. Drives for resolution of important issues.

•Influences Outcomes: Uses constructive techniques to persuade, convince or influence others to follow a plan of action,influences across functions with authority, sponsors innovation and initiative among teams, inspires, measures, and rewards commitment and action.

•Negotiates: Always seeks a win-win decision. Defines the business needs of all stakeholders, secures agreements and achieves results while successfully representing the best interest of the Corporation in a decision situation.

•Provides Direction: Communicates a focused vision/direction for the team and motivates people to believe in it. Acts as a role model and leads by example.

•Evaluates Risk/Reward Tradeoffs: Quantifies and evaluates risks, recommends actions and develops contingencies to cope with various scenarios.

Facilitates Teamwork: Supports the development of the team's vision/mission, links team mission to division and organizational missions, encourages collaboration, works with team to clarify roles and expectations, works just as effectively as a member or as a leader. Involves team in planning, problem solving and using appropriate decision-making processes. Celebrates successes, fosters open dialogue and focus on the issues, sets the example to work in collaboration with multi-disciplinary and diverse groups, encourages the development of team-based rewards and recognition, demonstrates task engagement behavior and ensures support of team member's efforts to remain engaged until task completion. Delegates tasks or projects to the team and provides appropriate authority, responsibility and direction to complete them. Works with Project Leads to focus individual's activity on task engagement.

•Makes Decisions: Makes timely decisions with the best available information and using the appropriate decision-making processes.

•Manages Crises: Identifies, authenticates, and responds to crises in a professional manner, assembles appropriate resources to deal with and resolve the situation effectively, keeps emotions in control during periods of high stress, leads by example.

•Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Science, or related field

•1-2 years of experience in project management.

The base pay for this position is $83,500.00 – $153,300.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.