Associate Product Manager

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. JOB DESCRIPTION: Working at Abbott   At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and your 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. • Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year. • An excellent retirement savings plan with a 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 worldwide 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 the best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists. The Opportunity   This position works out of our Madison, WI location in the Cancer Diagnostics Division.   The Associate Product Manager will partner closely with assigned product and business team members to define solutions that are in line with customer needs and business objectives. The Associate Product Manager will support the product teams by participating in projects of low complexity and will develop hands-on experience by participating in design reviews and walk throughs.  The Associate Product Manager assists in defining user stories and user acceptance criteria by working with his/her peers and users. Essential Duties Include, but are not limited to, the following: • Develop on-going relationships with business partners. • Collect high-level requirements and capture business needs through dialogue with business partners for low-complexity requirements for part of a specific product area. • With the support of a senior team member, translate business requirements into functional and non-functional requirements utilizing a structured process for gathering, analyzing, documenting, and managing change. • Learn about how to conduct experience and technical discovery with support from business partners, experience design, research, and technical teams. • Refer to project requirements according to requirements management plan. • Learn about application and solution delivery through participation in design reviews and walk-throughs to communicate requirements and validate proposed solutions. • Complete preliminary review of product design documentation to ensure that requirements are correct, unambiguous, and verifiable. • Assist in generating use cases/user stories to ensure that all functional requirements are captured. • Draft and perform activities, with oversight, to include user story writing and grooming, requirements analysis, and functional specification writing. • Mine data to inform system process flow decisions and documents tactical requirements. • Provide proactive and regular communication regarding cross-functional project status, issues, risks, and problems. • Support user acceptance testing and user training. • Proactively provide process improvement recommendations within a quickly evolving company. • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills. • Ability to operate in a cross-cultural and complex matrixed environment to build consensus across functions. • Uphold compa