IT Director – Legal, OEC, Privacy, M&A

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.

The Opportunity

This position works out of our Lake County location in the BTS – Corporate Strategy and Solutions organization. As the Business & IT Alignment Director, you will be responsible for supporting Legal, OEC & Privacy and M&A as part of the Corporate Functions IT team. The candidate will have multiple large client areas and multiple deployed Enterprise technologies to support across multiple divisions. The candidate will manage the team which includes managers and individual contributors and related delivery activities that require interaction between business units and IT (including Delivery, Support and Business Relationship to successfully deliver Abbott solutions and ensure value is achieved as anticipated from the outsourced relationships under management. The candidate will lead and influence the direction of the domain. Provides coaching and mentoring to enable a high performing team. This position will report to the Senior Director, IT Corporate Functions.

What You’ll Work On

• Working in conjunction with the business, drive the management of strategic roadmap, portfolio management and prioritization and secures required budget. The Director ensures processes are adhered to in the tracking of status and serves as an escalation point for the Business.
• Anticipates capacity and ensure it is known, monitored and adequate staffing provided for solutions and projects across respective domain(s). Develops and executes plans to ensure capacity constraints do not impact upcoming or inflight projects within and across domains.
• Establishes and maintains relationships with Sourcing Partner equivalent management. Monitors project execution and evaluates work in terms of time, cost and quality targets. Assesses and evaluates risk. Communicates effectively, both formally and informally.
• Demonstrates leadership. Facilitates collaboration between stakeholders who have diverse objectives. Understands the relevance of own area of responsibility/specialism to the employing organization.
• Manage communication and negotiation with supplier to obtain required solution design and sizing (hours effort). Reviews and approves infrastructure, software related project costs.
• Establishes a cross departmental team in order to seamlessly execute projects. Partners directly with business and IT leadership and sourcing providers. Function as Single Point of Escalation for all questions, activities and issues related to project delivery requests aligned to specific Legal, OEC, Privacy, and M&A domains.
• Responsible for evaluating performance of organization against defined metrics and implementing process improvements as necessary.
• Responsible for Staff and Travel budgets as well as identifying needed decreases/increases per the financial schedule.
• Approves ROM estimates prior to project initiation. Reviews and approves time reports/invoices Monitors actuals.
• Accountable for accurate financial estimates.
• Identifies and structures their organization to align to the current and anticipated future strategy of domain.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in the field of computer science, engineering, or equivalent relevant experience.
• A minimum of 12 years IT experience in large or mid-size multinational heath Care organization. Broad IT expertise in various disciplines; systems development, infrastructure etc.
• Strong influence and negotiating skills.
• Experience leading teams - both with direct staff and indirect project teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• MBA Degree
• Knowledge of legal operations, privacy and office of ethics and compliance
• Experience in setting IT strategy and business IT alignment.
• Strong organizational skills, including program/project governance and increased levels of staff oversight.
• Strong interdisciplinary, intercultural, influence, and networking skills.
• Experience with vendor management.
• Qualifications in project and program management.
• Broad knowledge of all technologies used or to be used by the internal customer, their external customers, and internal partners.

The base pay for this position is $171,300.00 – $342,700.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.