Job Description: IT Director, Diabetes Care Business Systems

Salary: $147,300.00 – $294,700.00 (Note: Pay range may vary by specific location)

Employment Type: Full-time

Location Type: Remote (United States of America)

Job Family: Information Risk & Quality Assurance

Division: ADC Diabetes Care

Travel: Yes, 50% of the Time

Position Overview

Abbott Diabetes Care is seeking a leader to build and direct a department responsible for managing a portfolio of business-managed systems and applications. These systems and applications are intended to enable the design and development of our physical and software products.

Main Responsibilities

• Develops and maintains productive relationships with vendors, technical leadership, and senior leadership to form and implement an IT strategy for a business area.
• Balances competing priorities and navigates/influences the broader technology organization.
• Develops diverse talent and assembles a highly effective remote team, inspiring them to do their best work and move the organization forward.
• Drives teams to action while working within the constraints of medical device regulation and a highly matrixed environment with cross-functional inputs and stakeholders.
• Possesses deep knowledge of/experience with research, design, and development systems, applications, and platforms.
• Directs managers and their teams.
• Works with cross-functional R&D and IT leaders on the alignment of business goals and needs with technology requirements and roles.
• Creates and implements strategies and operating models for the acquisition and management of IT solutions in accordance with business policies, including IT, Quality, R&D, Cybersecurity, and Procurement.
• Identifies and evaluates disruptive threats and opportunities, driving technology investments based on existing and planned use cases, trend analysis, market disruptions, and strategic alignment.
• Develops and manages system roadmaps through identification and analysis of business capability needs and technology requirements, aligning business goals and needs with technology requirements and roadmaps.
• Inspires trust and confidence in partners through strategic and diplomatic handling of relationships with senior business, IT, and vendor leadership, with the goal of building, planning, assessing, and prioritizing service-related initiatives.
• Ensures successful, consistent, and predictable delivery of programs, projects, and overall support.
• Responsible for personnel and talent management.
• Responsible for budget management.

Education and Experience Required

• Associates Degree in Computer Science or similar (± 13 years).
• Minimum 7 years of experience in IT team management.
• Experience in operationalizing IT strategies with governance, supply chain, and workload placement and prioritization as core capabilities.
• Well-developed relationship management capabilities; ability to build strong internal and external networks.

Preferred Experience

• Experience leading an IT supply chain management function.
• Experience leading systems implementations and/or implementation teams.
• In-depth knowledge of systems supporting research and development of medical devices.
• Experience with identifying and implementing security privacy requirements within systems and applications.
• Familiarity with computer systems validation.
• Experience navigating IT audits for security and compliance.

Company Information

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.