Please note that this role can be based either in Sligo or Longford (Ireland), Wiesbaden (Germany), or the US (Dallas or Illinois)

Abbott in Ireland

Abbott has maintained a strong presence in Ireland since 1946 and celebrates its 80th anniversary in the country in 2026. The company supports the Irish healthcare sector with a broad portfolio spanning diagnostics, diabetes care, medical devices and nutritional products. Today, Abbott employs more than 6,200 people across ten sites located in Dublin, Donegal, Clonmel, Cootehill, Galway, Kilkenny, Longford and Sligo.

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 122,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

(Ireland-specific) Please note any offer of employment for this position is conditional upon the successful completion of a pre-employment medical examination, including drug and alcohol screening, conducted by a medical practitioner designated by the Company.

Key responsibilities:

• Translates operational and business problems into clearly scoped digital work
• Owns digital initiative prioritization, backlog management, and value realization
• Coordinates delivery across data, automation, analytics, and business stakeholders
• Ensures solutions are adopted, measured, and iterated based on realized value
• Acts as the single point of accountability for digital outcomes (not just execution)
• Defines and governs KPIs, metrics, and data definitions to ensure consistency and comparability across locations
• Understands the evolving data architecture requirements and builds tools which are aligned

Job requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree in relevant field (full credits)
• Clear demonstrated leadership in operations or project management in medical technology environment (advantageous) - at least +5 years
• Managerial experience or project management experience in a fast-moving manufacturing environment (medical tech environment is an advantage)
• Knowledge of automation, data architecture, operation technology, analytics, and AI
• Demonstrated completion of technology implementation

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