Project Manager (Creative)

Location: Abbott Park, Illinois

Duration: 12 Months 100% Onsite

Summary:

The Associate Project Manager helps instill corporate brand by leading cross-functional creative teams to deliver best-in-class, multi-channel creative solutions. The ideal candidate is motivated and proactive, with a passion for insights-driven marketing, creative problem solving and has a fundamental understanding of creative projects, workflows and processes. Additionally, you'll demonstrate stewardship and provide project leadership to meet Division strategies and business objectives.

The Junior Project Manager leads low- to medium-complexity projects (Tier 3 and Tier 2) within the organization, ensuring successful implementation and alignment with strategic goals. The Junior Project Manager will manage multiple projects under the direction and guidance from mid and senior level roles and will strive for continuous improvement in project management practices. This role is part of the Abbott Creative team, a group within Abbott's Global Marketing and External Affairs team.

Main Responsibilities:

• Lead and manage multiple projects simultaneously, ensuring they are delivered on time, within scope and within budget.
• Participate at a proficient Project Management level to comprehend team processes and share findings and feedback to support continuous improvement.
• Document project plan in project management software and maintain project documentation.
• Ensure all documentation is complete, accurate, and up to date.
• Proactively identify and manage project opportunities, issues and risks, and escalate issues in a timely manner to leadership.
• Collaborate with strategists, creative directors, writers, designers to develop strategically driven creative campaigns and content that attracts, engages and activates target audiences, while increasing Abbott’s share of voice and brand awareness metrics.
• Serving as a central point of contact, build and maintain strategic partnerships with business partners, internal teams and external partners.
• Under Senior Project Manager direction, partner with Operations to execute scope change, complete project close-out processes, and communicate lessons learned.
• Under Senior Project Manager and Operations direction, provide forecasting, tracking, expenditures and metrics.
• Influence the development of ideas that reinforce the values of the Abbott brand and exhibit critical thinking to connect and align adjacent bodies of work.
• Recognize and celebrate achievements within project teams and organization. Acknowledge others for their accomplishments and efforts.

Qualifications:

Education: Bachelor’s degree in communications, marketing, business or related field

Experience: Minimum 3 years; Creative agency or related industry experience is a must.

Licenses and Certifications: PMP Certification or similar certification encouraged

Consultants Eligible Benefits Upon Waiting Period:

• Medical and Prescription Drug Plans
• Dental Plan
• Vision Plan
• Health Savings Account (for High-Deductible Health Plans)
• Flexible Spending Accounts (Health, Limited Purpose, Dependent Care, Commuter Parking and Commuter Transit)
• Supplemental Life Insurance
• Short Term Disability (coverage varies by state)
• Long Term Disability
• Critical Illness, Hospital coverage, Accident Insurance
• MetLife Legal, MetLife ID Fraud, and MetLife Pet Insurance
• 401(k)

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, nutritional and branded generic medicines. Working together, Abbott and Talent Solutions partner to deliver top talent for contingent roles at Abbott, building better and healthier lives. Abbott believes all employees are essential to creating life-changing breakthroughs, performing key duties to create life-changing breakthroughs.