Automation and Informatics Consultant, Technical Solution Design - Central Atlantic

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. • 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 We’re empowering smarter medical and economic decision-making to help transform the way people manage their health at all stages of life. Every day, more than 10 million tests are run on Abbott’s diagnostics instruments, providing lab results for millions of people.  The Automation and Informatics Consultant is a strategic, customer-facing expert within Abbott’s Technical Solution Design (TSD) team. This role is responsible for designing, managing, and approving complex informatics and automation solutions across Abbott’s middleware, AlinIQ Digital Health Solutions, and laboratory automation portfolios. The Consultant ensures optimal configuration and integration of digital health technologies to meet customer needs, drive business growth, and maintain profitability. This role plays a critical part in winning the technical and operational vote during RFPs and supports strategic sales engagements throughout the customer lifecycle. What You'll Work On Strategic Solution Design and Execution • Lead the design and approval of integrated informatics and automation solutions tailored to clinical laboratory environments. • Serve as a subject matter expert (SME) for Abbott’s middleware, routing engines, and automation products across pre-analytical, analytical, and post-analytical phases. • Analyze customer data, workflows, and operational challenges to identify opportunities for efficiency, scalability, and improved clinical outcomes. • Standardize solution configurations across engagements to ensure consistency, scalability, and compliance with internal design guidelines. • Manage high-impact solution design projects across strategic accounts, including national and regional health systems, ensuring timely deliverables and alignment with business goals. • Develop and deliver compelling presentations, Total Value of Ownership analyses, and Statements of Work (SOW) documents that articulate Abbott’s value proposition. Informatics, Digital Health and Automation Expertise • Conduct in-depth workflow assessments in clinical laboratories to identify improvement opportunities, with a focus on middleware systems, LIS integration, network architecture, automation and laboratory operations. • Create detailed current-state and future-state process maps and network diagrams to visualize proposed changes and develop transition phases and plans for the implementation process. • Design and proposed customized informatics workflows, including auto-verification rules and middleware configurations, ensuring alignment with clinical, operati