Sr Manager, Gross Margin Improvement

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 122,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

About Abbott

Abbott is a global healthcare leader, creating breakthrough science to improve people’s health. We’re always looking towards the future, anticipating changes in medical science and technology.

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

This position is an onsite opportunity in the Heart Failure Division. In the Heart Failure (HF) business, we’re developing solutions to diagnose, monitor and manage heart failure, allowing people to restore their health and get on with their lives. In Abbott’s Heart Failure (HF) business, we’re developing solutions to diagnose, monitor and manage heart failure, allowing people to restore their health and get on with their lives.

As a Senior Manager Gross Margin Improvement, you will manage Gross Margin Improvement program for the HF-Division. The incumbent will lead and direct the associated program resources, while collaborating across site and function leadership to drive and achieve division margin improvement goals. Provide leadership and management of high impact change programs that significantly improve productivity and cost structure of HF business. The scope will include both long-term planning and roadmap development, as well as short-term execution of critical projects and programs. This position reports to the Director of Business Excellence. This is an onsite opportunity in Pleasanton, CA.

What You'll Do

• Lead the division Gross Margin Improvement program, including execution of large scale / high impact initiatives and reporting of progress to Executive Steering committee.
• Design and lead projects for long-term value creation; Determine the ‘what must happen/stay on track’; Establish and evaluate key metrics; Drive results through innovative value creation and initiatives for continuous, measurable improvements
• Collaborate and influence across site and function leadership and staff to assign goals, develop project funnels, support execution, and manage / mitigate risks.
• Develop & deploy sustaining tools and processes
• Ensure that high impact programs are defined, resourced and implemented to achieve financial objectives
• Perform benchmarking to define significant opportunities for improvement.
• Collaborate closely with all Division Sites and Functions to support the HF journey
• Develop roadmap for HF to achieve COGS glide milestones for key products.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree/Masters Degree preferred: Engineering, Materials Science
• Minimum 10 years of working in the industry in which an Abbott business competes
• Proven history of critical thinking and problem solving, providing insights and delivering tangible results
• Strong analytical skills and ability to effectively communicate complex topics to a broad financial and non-financial audience
• Experience leading large and complex projects with global team members of various levels of management, including Executive-level

Preferred Qualifications:

• Lean Six Sigma Green Belt, Black Belt preferred
• PMP preferred

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The base pay for this position is $148,700.00 – $297,300.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.