IT Sr Project Manager

Title: IT Sr Project Manager

Location: Waukegan, Illinois

Duration: 5 Months (Possibility of Extension)

100% Onsite

Experience & Background

• Years of Experience Required: Minimum 5 years delivering digital/web projects.
• Education Requirements: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Business Administration, Information Technology, or Digital Marketing.
• Certifications: PMP, Agile, or Scrum Master certifications are not required but are considered a plus.

Project Scope

• Key Projects: Website redesigns, content migrations, marketing campaign websites, platform migrations.

Top 5 Skills Required

• Strong organizational skills & attention to detail
• Problem-solving with data-driven insights
• Excellent communication skills
• Digital fluency and domain knowledge (websites, content workflows, platform nuances, deployments)
• Strong cross-functional coordination and leadership

Technical & Tool Proficiency

• Web Content Management Systems: Adobe Experience Manager (AEM), Frontify, React framework.
• HTML & SEO: Hands-on experience not required, but awareness and past exposure are highly beneficial.
• Web Analytics Tools: Adobe Analytics, Google Analytics.
• Project Management Tools: Jira (preferred), Smartsheet, MS Project (less frequently used), custom trackers.
• RAID Logs: Must be familiar with managing and escalating Risks, Assumptions, Issues, and Dependencies.

Collaboration & Communication

• Primary Stakeholders: Business stakeholders, development teams, SQA, documentation teams.
• Frequent Collaborators: Marketing, IT, Compliance.
• Communication Cadence: Daily stand-ups, weekly status reports to stakeholders, regular follow-ups.

Regulatory & Documentation Requirements

• Regulated Environment Experience: Highly valuable due to Abbott’s life sciences context.
• Digital Marketing Policies: Training provided post-onboarding; familiarity not required upfront.
• Documentation: Critical due to audit requirements; includes full software lifecycle documentation and system certification.

Day-to-Day Responsibilities

• Lead daily stand-ups and ensure RAID logs are updated.
• Coordinate across workstreams (requirements, build, testing, documentation).
• Build and maintain project plans.
• Ensure timely delivery and stakeholder alignment.
• Drive documentation planning and execution.
• Act as the single point of contact for all project-related matters.

Personality Fit

• Proactive and forthcoming.

Description

• Working knowledge of HTML, SEO principles, and web page layout.
• Knowledge and some experience in web analytics tools.
• Strong verbal and written communications with ability to effectively communicate at multiple levels in the organization.
• Efficient project management with ability to multitask, prioritize and meet deadlines. Interpersonal and customer service skills.
• Desired skills: Web content management system (enterprise systems, like Adobe CMS); Assess the degree to which changes to scope, issues and risks will affect projects working with stakeholders and bring awareness to leadership where needed;
• Coordinate resources to ensure project needs are addressed and effectively assign tasks and deliverables to team members;
• 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 ;
• Education: Bachelor's degree in Business, Marketing, Communications or Computer Engineering
• Equivalent Duties: Digital project management bringing best practices and efficiency to the process; manages relationships with business partners - gather information, clarify

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.