Senior Project Manager/Clinical Evaluation Reporting (on-site)

About this role

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 115,000 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 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 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 around the world 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 a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists

Abbott Medical Devices, with revenue of $21B in 2025, is a global leader in providing life changing technology for the management and treatment of people living with chronic conditions including diabetes, cardiovascular disease, chronic pain, and movement disorders.

The Opportunity We are looking for a Senior Project Manager/Clinical Evaluation Reporting to join our Medical Devices team on-site in Santa Clara, CA, Pleasanton, CA, Atlanta, GA, or St. Paul, MN. The primary function of a Regulatory Project Manager, Clinical Evaluations (“Clinical Evaluation Report (CER) Project Manager (PM)”) is to combine understanding of scientific and research methodology, medical device regulations and guidelines, and product and therapeutic area knowledge to support Regulatory Affairs medical device submissions in the EU for CE Marking of new devices and maintaining of CE Mark for existing devices in accordance with EU MDR 2017/745, MEDDEV 2.7/1 Rev 4, MDCG Guidance documents, and predicate MDD and AIMDD directive requirements. This role will primarily support the Heart Failure product lines.

The CER PM is recognized as a subject matter expert for guidelines and regulations regarding the clinical evaluation process and its consequent documents (e.g., CEP, CER, PMS Plan, PMCF Plan, PMCF Report, and SSCP).  As such, this person has oversight of internal and external CER Medical Writers, guiding the development, update, or revision of CERs and associated documents to support the ongoing evaluation of safety and performance of Abbott medical devices in the EU and other geographies that recognize the CE Mark.  Scientific / Medical writing experience is required. In addition, the CER PM will interact cross-functionally with various personnel to identify and obtain relevant documentation including data on safety, performance, adverse events and benefit/risk profile of a device or devices. Moreover, the CER PM may be requested to contribute to other activities such as process improvement, risk assessment and management, and review of regulatory and informational documents such as the Clinical Development Plan (CDP), the Instructions for Use (IFU). The CER PM also may sit in on core teams for product development, CER-related procedure development and revision, and interact with regulatory agencies’ representatives as needed.

The role of the CER PM plays a significant part in new product development, as well as in the ongoing, continuous evaluation of the safety and performance and benefit/risk profile of a device over its lifecycle.  The position reports to the Global Regulatory Operations Senior Principal Scientist for Clinical and Risk Evaluations.

What You’ll Work On • Compliance with applicable corporate and divisional policies and procedures. • Lead projects and provide guidance and oversight to CER Medical Writers in writing and editing content of documents, manage timelines of these deliverables; must assure timelines are met. • Review, edit, and write portions, as needed, of Clinical Evaluation Reports and associated documents, including providing detailed evaluation of clinical data from clinical studies, literature, and post-market surveillance. • Participate in and/or lead the development of regulatory responses for Notified Body questions upon review of submissions. • Facilitate communication and exchange of documents between stakeholders (e.g., internal personnel such as Regulatory Affairs, R&D, Clinical R&D, A&P and Marketing, Library Services, Quality Engineering, Clinical Affairs, Risk Management, Program Management, as well as external vendors such as CROs, Medical Writers and Physician Reviewers). • Provide strategic guidance on regulatory requirements, pertaining to clinical data and clinical evaluations, to new product development teams and sustaining teams. • Participate in and support audits and responses to audit findings as appropriate, in root cause analysis, preventive or corrective actions, effectiveness monitoring, and other quality metrics. • Develop and update new policies, as appropriate, for processes and procedures relating to the clinical evaluation process, and train key personnel on them. • Function independently as a decision-maker on CER-related regulatory issues.

Required Qualifications: • Bachelor’s degree in a related field or an equivalent combination of education and experience. • Minimum 6 years’ related work experience with a strong understanding of specified functional area. • Solid understanding and application of business concepts, procedures and practices. • Will perform this job in a quality system environment. Failure to adequately perform tasks can resu

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