Abbott - Senior Project Manager - LIMS

Main Responsibilities :

- Create, implement and enforce project execution plan/schedule and direction to provide Professional Services value to clients, maintain project profitability and drive revenue growth. Responsible for P&L management, revenue, and margin attainment for each assigned project and per regional goals.

- Lead a cross-functional (business analyst, lead software/configuration engineer, assisting software/configuration engineer(s), tester(s)) project team to implement and deliver customer solutions, while achieving revenue and profitability targets.

- Manages both remote and onshore teams driving cohesion and teamwork.

- Responsible for successful and timely delivery of assigned Professional Services projects.

- Implement a balanced resource mix by combining internal headcount and sub-contractors to deliver projects with quality and on budget.

- Comply with practice and financial schedules, resource planning, and all quality and business procedures and directives (e.g. weekly/monthly/quarterly revenue processing, forecasting, invoicing, and customer satisfaction).

- Ensures adherence of project team members to the software, operational, and quality deliverables of the project.

- Partner with Commercial and leadership teams to achieve departmental and corporate objectives; assist in seeking out new revenue opportunities and securing incremental services business; building Abbott Informatics reputation in this space.

- Leverage broad-based industry knowledge and marketplace expertise to ensure customer success related to services delivery.

- Participate, as directed, in and contribute to sales calls, meetings, and presentations regarding Services opportunities.

- Assist in estimation during pre-sales and throughout the course of the project.

- Fully lead, manage, and own projects implementations.

- Derive and assist with instating implementation methodologies such as Agile-Scrum.

- Derive and assist with instating best practices for project management.

- Travel up to 50% for on-site customer visits.

- Works independently and under supervision from management.

- When directed, is able to coach peers or more junior level project, managers

Project Management :

- Understanding of Lab Automation domain expertise and experience in managing large projects specific to any commercial LIMS and preferably STARLIMS experience.

- Knowledge of software testing, test script preparation, and documentation, if the LIMS is being implemented in a regulated environment requiring Computer Systems Validation (CSV)

- Manage projects with the understanding of regulatory environment and compliances such as HIPAA, GxP, 21CFR Part 11 and ISO 9000/9001/17025

- Managing the medium to large scale projects of size $1M to $5M with multiple stake holders management including internal, partner and customer resources. Having worked in Multi geography projects and people exposure especially in APAC region is preferred.

Domain/Industry preference :

- Experience in Lab Automation or similar projects management in Pharmaceuticals, Biotech, Healthcare, Diagnostics, F&B, Chemical, Manufacturing, O&G and other scientific domain is highly preferred.

Product experience :

- Large scale project and program management in Lab Informatics and Scientific applications such as LIMS, ELN, SDMS, QMS, HIMS, CDMS, CDS and other GMP &GLP software products.

Graduation degree: Computer Science, Engineering or related technical discipline OR an equivalent combination of education and work experience required

Experience Background minimum experience :

- 10 years of experience in Practice or Project Management in the Software Industry is required.

- Experience in medical device applications and other regulated environments is a plus

License/Certification details :

- PMP or PRINCE2 required

- Certified Scrum master (CSM) desirable

- MCSE desirable