**Job Description**:
**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.
**W**orking 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 will have access to:
- Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.
- Medical Insurance, employee association, cafeteria subsidy, among others.
- 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**
Be a quality professional who applies compliance criteria, scientific knowledge, engineering knowledge, statistics, and ingenuity to complete or lead assignments related to a specific technical field or discipline. Provide direction and leadership to Manufacturing Quality Assurance, Manufacturing Quality Improvement and Compliance culture.
Provide Quality support to manufacturing, helping to ensure delivery of the highest quality product to the customer. Provide support to Development /Improvement teams for new or existing products. Ensure that activities are performed and documented per systems and procedures accordance with Abbott Policies and applicable Quality And Regulatory Requirements.
Able to supervise personnel successfully.
**_ MAIN PURPOSE OF ROLE_**
**_ MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES_**
- Supports and co-develops new initiatives for the organization that are value-added to the Business Excellence Program.
- Supports project execution by completing tasks, tracking project schedules, identifying risks, and developing and executing strategies to ensure project implementation buy-in.
- Develops change and communication strategies to ensure successful projects and site initiatives.
- Resolves project issues by working with team members, project customers, cross-site counterparts and others as appropriate. Supports roll out of projects until fully integrated and handed over to the appropriate group(s).
- Creates, edits, designs and produces a wide range of training and deployment materials or oversees external agencies in the development of such materials.
- Liaises with the different department functions to seek communication effectiveness and helps enhance the excellence culture.
- Assists with the organization of the Exempt and Direct staff Employee Monthly Meetings and Business Excellence awards program.
**_ QUALIFICATIONS_**
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, Science or a related field
- +5 years of experience in engineering, operations or managing projects related with business improvement initiatives.
- Fully Bilingual (English and Spanish)
- Demonstrated ability to effectively communicate with a wide range of audiences.
- Strong project management, multi-tasking and organizational skills and ability to respond efficiently and effectively in a continuously changing environment.
- Strong oral and written communication skills.