Head of Strategy & Operations

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 115,000 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
• Free medical coverage for employees* via the Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO
• 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
  
  

About Lingo

Abbott has a rich history of developing cutting edge technologies that enable consumers to monitor and manage their health and wellbeing. We are now embarking on an exciting next gen new venture of Bio-wearables that will build on that heritage and take it farther - leveraging biomarkers to provide wearers insights into their physical and mental state, ultimately driving to greater performance. The Lingo Bio-wearables business is the face and the future of the organization.

A New Category of Consumer Biowearables: Meet Lingo - YouTube

The Opportunity

Personalized healthcare is the future. Working on Lingo, you will help build a next-generation technology that enables individuals to make decisions about how to improve energy, lose weight or enhance athletic performance. The Lingo team embodies a start-up culture and mindset with the backing of Abbott, a company with a rich history of healthcare innovation. Join us and grow your career as you help Abbott shape the future of healthcare.

The Head of Strategy & Operations will be based at our Lingo headquarters in the Bay Area, CA.

This high visibility, high impact role will provide vision; strategy; leadership; and direction for operations to achieve and maintain the highest standards of quality; customer satisfaction; delivery; service; and manufacturing capability to accomplish business and division goals at competitive costs.

Create and meet short- and long-term business goals to support our customer and business requirements through: Direct or indirect management of third party and related party manufacturers. Lead and support key strategic and tactical initiatives to optimize performance of Supply Chain and manufacturing.

Manage the Project Management Office, which organizes and oversees the key initiatives/priorities of the business. This includes; reviewing and evaluating business procedures, managing business process changes, establishing quantitative and qualitative metrics, guidelines, and standards by which the businesses efficiency and effectiveness can be evaluated, and improving day-to-day operations across teams.

Leads coordination and integration of efforts among operations, engineering, technology, product, customer service and DTC to produce a smoother workflow and more cost-effective business processes.

What You’ll Work On

• Strong coordination and collaboration with all teams.
• Participate with counterparts in Finance; Quality; Medical Affairs, Legal, Regulatory, Product, Tech, and Marketing to ensure achievement of business unit operations goals.
• Establishes quantitative and qualitative metrics, guidelines, and standards by which the businesses efficiency and effectiveness can be evaluated; identify opportunities for improvement.
• Reviews, analyzes, and evaluates business procedures.
• Implements policies and procedures that will improve day-to-day operations.
• Work with peers in R&D to support new product development; on-market and LRP strategies.
• Provide vision; definition; and implementation of long-range material management; manufacturing and business improvement initiatives.
• Develop and track goals and objectives to assure annual improvements in operational performance; cost; product quality; productivity; and customer satisfaction. Establish effective measurement systems for performance to assure meeting quality, customer and cost expectations.
• Responsible for planning; budgeting and spending authorization.
• Develop processes; define system requirements; and assume responsibility for the system integration to support supply chain operations (inclusive of OEMs).
• Establish effective life cycle management programs.
• Determine system requirements and technologies needed to maintain and improve performance.
• Enforce compliance of personnel with administrative policies; procedures; safety rules; and governmental regulations.
• Serve as senior level representative on cross-organizational; cross-plant; cross-division and corporate materials and operations initiatives.
• Serve as supply chain interface on new product transition to manufacturing.
• Direct investigations into causes of customer complaints related to supply chain operations.
  
  

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering; Finance; Science or Business
• 12 years related experience required, including 5 years of management experience
• Strong operational background
• Strong influencer, great at cross functional collaboration, bias for action, and understanding of strategic priorities
  
  

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• Participants who complete a short wellness assessment qualify for FREE coverage in our HIP PPO medical plan. Free coverage applies in the next calendar year.
  
  

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... 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 $178,700.00 – $357,300.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.