Working at Abbott
At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and your 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.
- Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year.
- An excellent retirement savings plan with a high employer contribution.
- Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program, and FreeU 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 worldwide 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 the best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.
The Opportunity
We’re empowering smarter medical and economic decision-making to help transform the way people manage their health at all stages of life. Every day, more than 10 million tests are run on Abbott’s diagnostics instruments, providing lab results for millions of people.
Our diagnostics division is looking for a Senior Scientist Operations at our North Chicago/Abbott Park site. This is an individual contributor role requiring comprehensive knowledge in the specific area. The position involves executing highly complex or specialized projects, adapting precedent, and making significant departures from traditional approaches to develop solutions. The role also includes conducting complex and critical fundamental or applied research in the biological or physical sciences, or in mathematics, requiring appreciable originality and ingenuity.
Responsibilities
- Incumbents require an understanding of several disciplines.
- Positions may involve the introduction and application of new developments in their field and may also require the development of new approaches to be used by other professions.
- Prepare detailed reports to support recommendations and conclusions and evaluate findings.
- Provides information essential to estimate the costs, resources, and time required to implement the organization’s annual Operation goals and monitor the performance of research projects to ensure targets are met.
- Responsible for implementing and maintaining the effectiveness of the quality system.
- Quality/Safety: Demonstrate an understanding of the application of the Quality Policy through daily activities. Maintain vigilance to ensure adherence to the Quality Policy and system procedures by promptly reporting noncompliance issues to management.
- Safety: Work in a safe and environmentally responsible manner.
- Technical knowledge: Develop and apply operations/ product/ process knowledge to (area of support). Use sound judgment; appropriate scientific methods and thorough data analysis. Accurately documents work
- Planning/Project Management: Conceive; plan; design; execute; and document projects/activities efficiently and in conformance with applicable OPs.
- Patient Focus: Anticipates; identifies and resolves internal and external customer issues through understanding of processes; product performance and clinical utility.
- Communication/Leadership: Demonstrates effective verbal and written communication skills within and outside immediate area. Shares and enhances own knowledge by mentoring and training others.
- Business Focus/Alignment: Demonstrates fiscal responsibility through actionable recommendations and accomplishments such as maintaining product availability and improvements in product sustainability. Aligns resources with strategic business priorities.
- May perform other duties as assigned.
Position Accountability/Scope
- Achieves team and individual performance goals. Generates and manages multiple project timelines and resources.
- Mentors others on their technical writing skills for data analysis; expanded investigation documents; design change documents and change control.
- Proactively identifies opportunities to improve compliance with QSR / ISO requirements. Confronts issues; motivates and influences others; negotiates and manages crisis; to attain desired results.
- Listens actively; fosters information exchange; provides scientific and operational information effectively; establishes networks; and presents/defends positions.
- Develops strong networks throughout the Division. Inspires others toward the achievement of team/project objectives. Operates with integrity and respect; actively resolves conflicts. Utilizes established networks with support groups within ADD
- Participates in assessing and responding to internal and external changes. Recognizes and promotes acceptance of changes in internal/external environment. Makes timely scientific; operational; and business decisions; appropriately elevates high-risk decisions. Accountable for identifying appropriate inputs into the change control system based on risk/benefit to the organization.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree required in related field
- Master’s degree preferred
- Minimum 8 years of experience
- Strong verbal and written communications with ability to effectively communicate at multiple levels in the organization.
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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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