IT Program Manager Jobs in Illinois

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.

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:

We are seeking an experienced Senior IT Program Manager, Supply Chain (Transformation Lead) for the delivery and ongoing support of large-scale, enterprise supply chain technology solutions across a global life sciences organization. This role will focus on advanced planning platforms, including SAP IBP and OMP, ensuring successful implementation, integration, and operational excellence.

The ideal candidate brings deep experience managing complex, cross-functional IT programs, driving business transformation, and delivering highly scalable solutions in regulated, global environments.

This role is critical to enabling next-generation supply chain capabilities, improving planning accuracy, optimizing logistics execution, and strengthening the company’s ability to deliver life-saving products efficiently across global markets. This is a global role supporting a $45B+ enterprise organization collaborating with geographically distributed teams and stakeholders.

What You’ll Work On:

Program & Project Delivery

• Lead end-to-end delivery of enterprise IT programs while governing a portfolio of supply chain planning and transformation initiatives to drive aligned business outcomes.
• Manage large, multi-year, multi-million-dollar, multi-divisions initiatives across global teams and vendors.
• Define project scope, timelines, budgets, resource plans, and governance structures while ensuring alignment across related programs and enterprise transformation initiatives.
• Drive execution of Agile, hybrid, or waterfall methodologies as appropriate.
• Ensure adherence to SDLC processes, quality standards, and regulatory requirements (e.g., GxP where applicable).
• Define and structure complex business and technical problems; perform root cause analysis and develop alternative solution strategies aligned to enterprise objectives.
• Negotiate and secure required resources across functions and programs; optimize resource allocation through leveling and prioritization in a constrained environment.
• Ensure effective integration across related programs and initiatives, aligning deliverables with broader portfolios and enterprise transformation roadmaps.

Supply Chain Solutions Leadership

• Oversee implementation and enhancement of:
  • Advanced Planning Systems (SAP IBP, OMP).
• Partner with business stakeholders to align IT solutions with supply chain strategy, planning optimization, and logistics execution.
• Drive system integration across ERP (SAP S/4HANA), data platforms, and external partners.
• Ensure all program initiatives align with broader enterprise strategy, evaluating long-term business impacts, cross-system dependencies, and alignment with global transformation objectives.

Stakeholder & Vendor Management

• Act as the primary liaison between business leaders, IT teams, and external vendors.
• Manage system integrators and technology partners to ensure delivery quality and contractual compliance.
• Provide executive-level reporting, including program status, emerging trends, risk patterns, and their impact on delivery outcomes, along with recommended mitigation strategies.
• Negotiate program priorities, funding, and deliverables with senior leadership to balance competing business and technology demands.
• Act as the escalation point and decision authority for resolving program conflicts, ensuring alignment with agreed project objectives and timelines.
• Contribute to the development of the supply chain planning technology roadmap in partnership with senior leadership.

Operational Support & Continuous Improvement

• Transition projects into steady-state operations, ensuring supportability and service excellence.
• Oversee post-go-live stabilization and performance optimization.
• Identify opportunities for process improvements, cost optimization, and system enhancements.

Risk & Financial Management

• Proactively identify, assess, and mitigate project risks and issues.
• Manage project financials, including forecasting, budgeting, and tracking.
• Ensure strong governance and compliance with enterprise standards.
• Develop and evaluate alternative solutions to complex program challenges, providing recommendations to leadership on optimal approaches balancing cost, risk, and business impact.

Key Competencies

• Executive communication and stakeholder engagement.
• Strategic thinking with strong execution focus.
• Problem-solving in complex, ambiguous environments.
• Leadership without authority in matrixed organizations.
• Drives team effectiveness by providing performance feedback, coaching, and fostering collaboration across senior-level cross-functional teams.
• Ability to lead programs in highly dynamic environments with shifting priorities and constrained resources while maintaining delivery commitments.
• Mentor and guidance of junior program managers and workstream leads to build delivery capability and consistency across programs.
• Financial and risk management discipline.

Minimum Requirements & Qualifications:

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology, Engineering, Supply Chain, or related field.
• 8–12+ years of global complex IT program management experience, with significant enterprise delivery scope.
• Proven experience implementing or supporting any planning platform software, preferably:
  • SAP IBP and OMP OR Kinaxis, O9, Blue Yonder, Oracle, etc.
• Experience delivering large-scale programs in global, matrixed organizations for the Life Science industry.
• Strong understanding of end-to-end supply chain processes (planning, deployment, finite scheduling, available to promise, distribution, logistics).
• Demonstrated ability to manage cross-functional teams and external system integrators.
• Expertise in project management methodologies (Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, hybrid).
• Proficiency with project tools (e.g., Jira, MS Project, ALM, SmartSheet, etc.).

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in life sciences, healthcare, or regulated industries.
• Familiarity with SAP S/4HANA integrations.
• Strong understanding of data, analytics, and integration architectures.
• PMP, PRINCE2, CPIM or Agile certifications.
• Experience with cloud-based enterprise platforms.

Travel:

• 25% travel as needed for program delivery and stakeholder engagement.

MISC:

• This is an onsite role based in IL. This is NOT a remote role/opportunity.

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Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that can help you build your future and live your best life. Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity.

The base pay for this position is $129,300.00 – $258,700.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.