About Abbott

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 109,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

Abbott serves the Irish market with a diverse range of healthcare products including diagnostics, medical devices and nutritionals products. In Ireland, Abbott employs over 4,000 people across nine sites. We have six manufacturing facilities located in Clonmel, Cootehill, Donegal, Longford and Sligo and a third-party manufacturing management operation in Sligo. Abbott has commercial, support operations and shared services in Dublin and Galway. We have been operating in Ireland since 1946.

Abbott Rapid Diagnostics is part of Abbott’s Diagnostics family of businesses, bringing together exceptional teams of experts and industry-leading technologies to support diagnostic testing which provides important information for the treatment and management of diseases and other conditions. IDEM is an over a billion-dollar business unit that now support significate growth for Abbott in COVID-19 related products in over 70+ countries.

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Lead the R&D innovation strategy in the area of lateral flow technology with ownership for realizing conceptual / ideation projects in to the new product development pipeline

• Develop and own the R&D Human Factors Engineering activities for IDEM and create “norms” in design phase that drive formative studies and patient interaction to improve useability.

• Drive design best practices through design for six sigma philosophies and create a design roadmap for best in class devices

• Foster innovation culture through the establishment of invention disclosure goals, metrics and IP process.

• Ownership of Design Input Requirements management tools e.g. JAMA and significant contributor to design controls oversight.

• Create and deploy development strategies while providing tactical leadership for medical device innovation and product support programs.

• Ensure that strategic proposal milestones are achieved with cross functional partners

• Create and manage design input (user needs) program working collaboratively with Commercial, Medical Affairs, Regulatory, Quality and other stakeholders.

• Understand new innovative technologies from other industries and integrate in an innovative way in existing or future Abbott systems.

• Must have the ability to work with customers, patients, Key Opinion Leaders and End Users to develop and refine VOC into Design Inputs

EDUCATION & COMPETENCIES:

• BS or MS degree in a scientific or engineering discipline

• MBA or other Advanced degree is ideal

• 10+ years of complex system design including design best practices with proven technical leadership experience

• Previous experience as either a systems engineer, design requirements owner or technical leadership role for complex Medical Device. 

• Excellent problem solving methodology with an ability to impart knowledge to wider R&D organisation

• Demonstrated ability to make data driven decisions between technology, clinical and business objectives

• Complex problem solving and decision-making based upon the available data.

• Leverages personal experience with a proven track record in developing R&D teams

• Writes and presents effectively; adjusts to fit the audience and the message; ability to communicate a complex technical scenario to all parts of the organization

• Effective at building strong cross functional relationships with the key stakeholders.

• Communicates up and down appropriately and effectively

• Ability to develop relationship and collaborate with internal, external suppliers and Key Opinion Leaders

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