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Abbott Project Coordinator in Austin, Texas
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.
Job Title
Project Coordinator
Working at Abbott
At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and family, be your true self and live a full life. You’ll also have access to:
Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.
Free medical coverage for employees* via the Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO
An excellent retirement savings plan with high employer contribution
Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save (https://www.abbott.com/corpnewsroom/strategy-and-strength/tackling-student-debt-for-our-employees.html) student debt program and FreeU (https://www.abbott.com/corpnewsroom/strategy-and-strength/college-degree-for-free-its-possible-with-freeu.html) education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree.
A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries around the world and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.
A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.
The Opportunity
A healthy heart is essential to good health. That's why we're committed to advancing treatments for people with cardiovascular disease. As a global leader in Cardiac Rhythm Technologies, our breakthrough medical technologies help restore people's health so they can get back to living their best lives, faster. We focus on innovative technologies that can improve the way doctors treat people with heart arrhythmias, or irregular heartbeats.
The Project Coordinator works with project managers and teams to manage the project lifecycle for company's products and services involving functional teams focused on the delivery of new or existing products.
This position works out of our Sylmar, CA or Austin, TX location in the Abbott CRM Division
What You’ll Work On
Independently identifies opportunities to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the project management systems and process being examined, including integrating internal and external best practices and benchmarking data
Will work in Excel and Smartsheets to create and analyze data for cross functional support
Works with co-sourcing partners such as Program/Project Managers to plan the project, draft project reports, and conduct the fieldwork, which includes interviews, process flow determination, critical analysis of activities ass value added/non-value added, financial analysis, system data analysis and transaction testing
Supports project execution which may include identifying tasks, tracking project schedule, and identify/manage risks and issues, and independently executing assigned tasks
Begins establishing and cultivating a network of internal resources to facilitate completion of tasks
Participates in special projects as they arise
Provides Divisional support as it relates to project management tools and software
Independently manages own work load by balancing multiple tasks/projects, prioritizing work based on criticality and urgency, and completing tasks on time
Understand how to pull data from different sources; summarize the data for actionable insights. Build in repeatability for data analysis for efficiency and effectiveness
Required Qualifications
Bachelors Degree or an equivalent combination of education and work experience.
2 years of related work experience
General knowledge and basic application of business concepts, procedures and practices.
Preferred Qualifications
- Working knowledge of Power BI, Excel and Smartsheets
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- Participants who complete a short wellness assessment qualify for FREE coverage in our HIP PPO medical plan. Free coverage applies in the next calendar year.
Learn more about our health and wellness benefits, which provide the security to help you and your family live full lives: www.abbottbenefits.com (http://www.abbottbenefits.com/pages/candidate.aspx)
Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that can help you build your future and live your best life. Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity.
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The base pay for this position is $55,200.00 – $110,400.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.
An Equal Opportunity Employer
Abbot welcomes and encourages diversity in our workforce.
We provide reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities.
To request accommodation, please call 224-667-4913 or email corpjat@abbott.com