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.

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 works out of our St. Paul, MN or Santa Clara, CA location in the Cephea division. Our business purpose is to restore health and improve quality of life by designing and providing device and management solutions for treating structural heart disease.

This position provides leadership and guidance for the supplier quality engineering department; responsible for developing goals, objectives, procedures, policies and systems that are in line with company goals and objectives, mission and vision and FDA/ISO regulations. Daily responsibilities include managing the resolution of supplier quality/process issues, ensuring a continuous supply of high quality components to production and supporting product development to ensure the identification of quality oriented suppliers with capable processes that will manufacture high quality components. Ensures systems are in place to monitor and track department and supplier performance.

What You’ll Work On

• Recruits, coaches and develops organizational talent.
• Fosters a diverse workplace that enables all participants to contribute to their full potential in pursuit of organizational objectives.
• Creates an entrepreneurial environment.
• Provides direction and guidance to exempt specialists and/or supervisory staff who exercise significant latitude and independence in their assignments.
• May supervise non-exempt employees.
• Keeps the organization's vision and values at the forefront of decision making and action.
• Demonstrates effective change leadership.
• Builds strategic partnerships to further departmental and organizational objectives.
• Develops and executes organizational and operational policies that affect one or more groups by utilizing technical/professional knowledge and skills.
• Monitors compliance with company policies and procedures (e.g. compliance with FDA, BSI, EEO regulations, etc.).
• Makes decisions regarding work processes or operational plans and schedules in order to achieve department objectives.
• Develops, monitors and appropriately adjusts the annual budget for department(s).

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors Degree/Masters Degree Preferred
• Minimum 9 years Related work experience.
• Minimum 5 years of management/direct report experience
• Provides direction and monitors progress of exempt specialists and/or supervisory staff toward departmental goals.
• Monitors costs of projects and of human and material resources within a department or unit.
• Monitors company-wide indicators such as market share and profitability.
• Monitors external environment in area of technical or professional responsibility.
• Will perform this job in a quality system environment.
• Failure to adequately perform tasks can result in noncompliance with governmental regulations.
• Develops and/or identifies new work processes and the improved utilization of human and material resources within the assigned or related functions or groups.
• Facilitates others' participation in the continuous improvement program.
• Investigates and solves problems that impact work processes and personnel within or across units or departments.
• Develops and communicates a vision for the organizational unit assigned

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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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The base pay for this position is $111,300.00 – $222,700.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.