Manager, Clinical Affairs Specimen 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 122,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries. JOB DESCRIPTION: Position Overview The Manager, Clinical Affairs Specimen Operations (CASO) successfully delivers solutions to support the organization’s vision and strategic direction. The Manager, CASO works as a part of the CASO Leadership Team to accomplish department objectives by managing staff, planning, and evaluating department activities. This role manages and leads large, high risk, high visibility, and critical projects across the Organization. These projects are often highly complex and impact many users. This position ensures successful integration and communication between multiple projects. This is a hands-on role that requires close collaboration with all levels of Abbott Cancer Diagnostics.   The Manager, CASO will focus on leading and managing cross functional support teams and key stakeholders to support the logistical stand up of all clinical studies and ensure that supply and specimen management needs meet the study design requirements. This role will facilitate the program milestone development, facilitate teams to execute and communicate to the broader organization.  The Manager supports the clinical study portfolio for Abbott Cancer Diagnostics commercial and pipeline products, collaborating with Product Core Teams and their respective working groups to successfully complete high-quality deliverables on time.   Essential Duties include but are not limited to the following: • Lead relationships and communication and liaise with cross functional team members involved in specimen logistics, Clinical IT, Clinical Supply, and Clinical Lab, but not limited to these • Process engineer and design strategy for clinical research study specimen logistics and other specimen collection types needed per defined programs. • Identifying specimen logistic improvements through workflow analysis. • Evaluate and conduct research to develop new and improve processes for specimen logistics for existing and new projects of varying complexities. • Define, report, and improve the metrics and tracking that feed overall workflow and process performance to make decisions on usable specimens/subjects, kit projections, and advancement of the forecasting process that is required to support study logistics. • Assess cross-functional impact and integrate stakeholder recommendations/needs to streamline process flow. • Perform technical analysis to understand and reduce risk, establish the timeline for cross-functional stakeholder readiness. • Excellent leadership, planning, prioritization, and project management ability; exhibiting effective decision making, problem-solving skills, and interpersonal skills; influence and persuade and is results-oriented. • Ability to exercise judgment and determine appropriate action to a variety of problems of varying complexity. • Ability to make critical decisions based upon a combination of data analysis, experience, and judgement. • Ability to balance multiple competing priorities within and across multiple projects. • Adaptable to rapid changes in priorities, strong sense of urgency, and able to identify ways to work together to achieve results needed for all requests. • Apply excellent oral and written communication and presentation skills; detail-oriented. • Identify strategic initiatives with leadership, identify resources, and timelines. • Assist teams with breaking project work into manageable packages and organizing it into a project sc