Associate Product Manager

About the role

JOB DESCRIPTION:

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 Madison, WI location in the Cancer Diagnostics Division.

The Associate Product Manager will partner closely with assigned product and business team members to define solutions that are in line with customer needs and business objectives. The Associate Product Manager will support the product teams by participating in projects of low complexity and will develop hands-on experience by participating in design reviews and walk throughs.  The Associate Product Manager assists in defining user stories and user acceptance criteria by working with his/her peers and users.

Essential Duties

Include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Develop on-going relationships with business partners.
• Collect high-level requirements and capture business needs through dialogue with business partners for low-complexity requirements for part of a specific product area.
• With the support of a senior team member, translate business requirements into functional and non-functional requirements utilizing a structured process for gathering, analyzing, documenting, and managing change.
• Learn about how to conduct experience and technical discovery with support from business partners, experience design, research, and technical teams.
• Refer to project requirements according to requirements management plan.
• Learn about application and solution delivery through participation in design reviews and walk-throughs to communicate requirements and validate proposed solutions.
• Complete preliminary review of product design documentation to ensure that requirements are correct, unambiguous, and verifiable.
• Assist in generating use cases/user stories to ensure that all functional requirements are captured.
• Draft and perform activities, with oversight, to include user story writing and grooming, requirements analysis, and functional specification writing.
• Mine data to inform system process flow decisions and documents tactical requirements.
• Provide proactive and regular communication regarding cross-functional project status, issues, risks, and problems.
• Support user acceptance testing and user training.
• Proactively provide process improvement recommendations within a quickly evolving company.
  • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
  • Ability to operate in a cross-cultural and complex matrixed environment to build consensus across functions.
• Uphold company mission and values through accountability, innovation, integrity, quality, and teamwork.
• Support and comply with the company’s Quality Management System policies and procedures.
• Maintain regular and reliable attendance.
• Ability to act with an inclusion mindset and model these behaviors for the organization.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Life Sciences, Engineering, Marketing, Business, Finance or field as outlined in the essential duties; or High School Diploma or General Education Degree (GED) and 4 years of relevant experience as outlined in the essential duties in lieu of Bachelor’s Degree.

• Proficient in Microsoft Office programs.

• Demonstrated ability to perform the essential duties of the position with or without accommodation.

• Authorization to work in the United States without sponsorship.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working on Agile development teams.
• Experience in life science, healthcare, bioinformatics, wellness, or digital health.
• Some knowledge of digital analytics tools. 

Learn more about our health and wellness benefits, which provide the security to help you and your family live full lives: https://abbottbenefits.com/

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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In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.

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