Project Manager (Creative) - D

Job Title: Project Manager (Creative) - D

Location: Abbott Park, IL 60064-3500

Duration: 11 months

Work Arrangement: 100% Onsite

Description:

Purpose/Role Summary: The Senior Project Manager helps instill corporate brand by leading cross-functional creative teams to deliver best-in-class, multi-channel creative solutions. The ideal candidate is motivated and proactive, with a passion for insights-driven marketing, creative problem solving and has a deep understanding of how creative work is achieved through projects, workflows and processes. Additionally, you'll demonstrate stewardship and provide project leadership to meet Division strategies and business objectives. The Senior Project Manager leads the most complex and critical projects (Tier 1) within the organization, ensuring successful implementation and alignment with strategic goals. The Senior Project Manager will manage multiple projects, mentor junior staff, and serve as an expert to lead project management methodologies, coordination and plans. This role is part of the Abbott Creative team, a group within Abbott's global marketing and external affairs team.

Main responsibilities:

• Lead and manage multiple projects simultaneously, ensuring they are delivered on time, within scope and within budget. Participate and lead as a Project Management subject matter expert for team processes, onboarding, and change management to promote continuous improvement.
• Mentor, support and provide feedback to Junior- and Mid-Level Project Managers and team members where appropriate to foster skill development and supportive culture.
• Collaborate with strategists, creative directors, writers, designers to develop strategically driven creative campaigns and content that attracts, engages and activates target audiences, while increasing Abbott’s share of voice and brand awareness metrics.
• Document project plan in project management software and maintain project documentation. Ensure all documentation is complete, accurate, and up to date. Proactively identify and manage project opportunities, issues and risks, and escalate issues in a timely manner to leadership.
• Serving as a central point of contact, build and maintain strategic partnerships with business partners, internal teams and external partners.
• Execute scope change management and project close-out processes and participate in project assessments and communicate lessons learned.
• Lead project management team partnership with Operations team to provide forecasting; have advanced understanding of tracking, reporting and oversight on project budget, expenditures and metrics.
• Influence the development of ideas that reinforce the values of the Abbott brand and exhibit critical thinking to connect and align adjacent bodies of work.
• Recognize and celebrate achievements within project teams and organization. Acknowledge others for their accomplishments and efforts.

Qualifications:

• Education: Bachelor's degree in communications, marketing or related field
• Experience: Minumum 7 years; Creative agency or related industry experience is a must. Events, tradeshows and experiential experience is highly recommended for this role
• Licenses and Certifications: PMP Certification or similar certification encouraged

Consultants Eligible Benefits Upon Waiting Period:

• Medical and Prescription Drug Plans
• Dental Plan
• Vision Plan
• Health Savings Account (for High Deductible Health Plans)
• Flexible Spending Accounts (Health, Limited Purpose, Dependent Care, Commuter Parking and Commuter Transit)
• Supplemental Life Insurance
• Short Term Disability (coverage varies by state)
• Long Term Disability
• Critical Illness, Hospital coverage, Accident Insurance
• MetLife Legal, MetLife ID Fraud, and MetLife Pet Insurance
• 401(k)

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, nutritional and branded generic medicines.

Working together, Abbott and Talent Solutions partner to deliver top talent for contingent roles at Abbott, building better and healthier lives. Abbott believes all employees are essential to creating life-changing breakthroughs, performing key duties to create life-changing breakthroughs.