IT Sr Project Manager

Title: IT Sr Project Manager

Location: Waukegan, Illinois

Duration: 12+ Months

Qualifications:

• At least 6 yrs. experience in project management
• Strong Project Management skills including budget and finance.
• Strong collaboration across IT and communication with stakeholders including IT Sr. Leadership. Conduct project meetings, status reports, etc. as needed.
• Technical background (Functional) with IBM CloudPak 4 Integration (MQ) experience desired.

Responsibilities:

• Develop, execute and manage IT projects within the defined scope.
• Expedite, manage and coordinated a multitude of interrelated IT project activities within the constraints of human and financial resources and changing priorities to ensure the successful completion of projects.
• Works with business and IT management to establish and gain consensus on project goals, objectives and deliverables.
• Assess the degree to which changes to scope, issues and risks will affect projects working with department, divisional management and sponsor to gain agreement for resolution.
• Measure performance to assure the project is progressing as compared to original plan and budget. Develops and executes a work plan obtaining authorized resources to ensure all activities are performed.
• Gather lessons learned and obtain final project approval from sponsor and stakeholders.
• Communicate project progress by producing project reports to provide timely and accurate project status and decision support information to Project Team, Department and Division management.
• Coordinate resources to ensure project needs are addressed and effectively assign tasks and deliverables to team members based upon their abilities.
• Supervises and motivates cross-functional project team of business analysts, developers, and validation analysts.
• Responsible for compliance with applicable Corporate and Divisional Policies and procedures. Manages Projects at the department or division level.
• Makes decisions that impact projects or Departments.

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.