Software Engineering Manager

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.

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
• An excellent retirement savings plan with high employer contribution
• 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

The Director Product Development is responsible for Engineering leadership and resource allocation in a highly regulated medical device environment. The director is responsible for creating and maintaining an efficient, highly motivated, engineering organization to ensure targeted business results are achieved.

Job Duties

• 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, transform the R&D teams with can-do and result-oriented culture, and turn around challenge programs to deliver.
• Lead and shape the technology roadmap and build/develop the relevant technical competence in the R&D teams to deliver the business product roadmap and support the product life cycle management.
• Builds strategic partnerships to further departmental and organizational objectives.
• Interacts internally and externally with executive level management, outside regulatory agencies, customers, vendors and suppliers.
• Coordinates across functional areas, business units, and/or geographies to achieve company or area goals.
• Utilizes technical/professional knowledge and skills to establish, interpret and execute company policies in a major segment of the company.
• Monitors and ensures compliance with company policies and procedures (e.g. compliance with FDA, BSI, EEO regulations, etc.).
• Makes and executes operational decisions with a strategic perspective.
• Directs and controls the activities and budget of one or more functional areas, divisions, product groups and/or operations.
• Leads assigned departments by developing, communicating, and building consensus for goals and programs that support division, business unit and company objectives.
• Creates mid- to long-range plans to carry out objectives established by top management; develops and calculates a budget for one or more departments to meet organizational goals; forecasts future departmental or group needs including human and material resources and capital expenditures; determines and establishes organizational structure and supervisory relationships subject to top management approval.
• Typically makes decisions that translate programs established by top management into operational plans and schedules; work is performed without appreciable direction.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE YOU’LL BRING

Position requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Biomed Engineering, Computer Engineering or similar
• 15+ years’ experience developing and leading product development teams
• 5+ years’ experience in Medical device development and/or other highly regulated industry.
• Strong leadership skills, including the ability to set goals and provide positive and constructive feedback respectfully to build positive relationships and improve business results.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills with the ability to communicate clearly to upper management and other stakeholders in different functions at various levels
• Strong organizational, planning, and follow-up skills and ability to hold others accountable
• Ability to work effectively a fast-paced changing environment.
• Ability to travel approximately 15%.

Good to have

• Advance level degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Biomed Engineering, Software Engineering or related discipline
• Experience in the Electrophysiology domain
• Hands on experience with software development in a regulated environment

The base pay for this position is

N/A

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

JOB FAMILY:IT Services & Solutions DeliveryDIVISION:EP ElectrophysiologyLOCATION:India > Mumbai : BKC BuildingADDITIONAL LOCATIONS:WORK SHIFT:StandardTRAVEL:Yes, 15 % of the TimeMEDICAL SURVEILLANCE:Not ApplicableSIGNIFICANT WORK ACTIVITIES:Continuous sitting for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day)