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 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 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 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

Senior Manager – Infrastructure Technology is responsible for leading a team that executes Requests for Capital Expenditure (RCE) for the BTS organization.

Key responsibilities include:

Knowledge of Infrastructure technology management which includes but not limited to Network, Data Center and End User technologies

Strategy and Planning: Manage strategy, planning, and execution.

Stakeholder Engagement: Conduct quarterly meetings with IT leaders and stakeholders.

Liaison Role: Act as a liaison between the RCE COE team, IT Finance, Project Accounting, vendors, BTS towers, and PMO.

Team Support: Provide staff escalation and support.

Additionally, the Senior Manager directs a team that handles global RCE creation, capital spend management, closure, financial reconciliation, hardware asset reconciliation, and reporting.

Core Job Responsibilities: 

Senior Manager – Infrastructure Technology is responsible for overseeing infrastructure technology projects, financial planning, budget adherence, and alignment with business requirements.

RCE Creations

OEM/Long Range Plan

Portfolio Planning

Task Reduction

Quarterly meetings with IT Leaders and Stakeholders

BTS Reporting and alignment

Liaison for Capital/Project activity working with IT Finance, PMO, BTS Business Owners, Vendors, Project Accounting and Infrastructure teams.

Hardware maintenance

Asset Reconciliation

Team Management Responsibilities:

Supervising the creation of 50 BTS RCEs totaling 100MM in capital

End-to-end spend management of over 600 PO requests for capital expenditure

Creating over 350 intercompany billing requests for OUS spending activity

Monthly LBE Reporting

Monthly Business updates

Quarterly LBE Reporting

Closure reporting ICB status/escalation RCE Status

Spend status Forecast Management

Yearly Project Portfolio Plan Year-end management and reporting

Closure Management

Asset retirement – Quarterly

Project Closure AIF/ICB – Quarterly

Required Education and Experience: 

Bachelor's degree in computer science, business administration, or another discipline relevant to the healthcare industry or equivalent experience.

10+ years of experience supporting Infrastructure or Technology based operations and driving Business and Finance operations, with a strong track record of delivering strategic solutions and optimizing performance.

3 years of finance experience, including hands-on work with RCE (Request for Capital Expenditures) and other financial planning tools.

Deep understanding of infrastructure technologies, including Networking, Data Center Operations, Storage and Cloud platforms, etc.

Solid knowledge of IT technologies, including SAP, etc.

Preferred Experience/Training:

IT experience in a large or midsized multinational healthcare organization. IT expertise in one or more areas specific to the supported business process.

Strong project management skills, including program/project management governance.

Knowledge of cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, etc

Proficient in Microsoft Office products, in particular Excel, PowerPoint, and Word

Proficient in software applications like SAP

Strong analytical skills

High level of communication skills, both oral and written

Ability to work in a matrixed environment and understand business needs and support the organization with value-added analysis and insight

Financial modeling and ability to navigate complex formulas

Comfortable providing recommendations to senior leaders and executives

Experience with vendor management.

Performs monthly reviews of the departmental financial performance vs. plan

Automates and improves financial planning processes.

Provides financial analysis support for key capital projects.

Build successful partnerships with internal customers.

Provide documentation for financial schedules.

Provide recommendations for process improvements in reporting and analysis.

MISC:

This is an onsite role located in IL location. This is NOT a remote role/opportunity.

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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 $127,300.00 – $254,700.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.