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Get Access To All JobsAbbott 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.
Apply Now
Learn more about our health and wellness benefits, which provide the security to help you and your family live full lives: www.abbottbenefits.com
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.
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.
Apply Now
Learn more about our health and wellness benefits, which provide the security to help you and your family live full lives: www.abbottbenefits.com
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.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding Visa Sponsorship as an IT Program Manager
Lead with your PMP or Agile credentials
Certifications like PMP, PMI-ACP, or SAFe signal to employers that you meet the professional standard for the role, which strengthens the specialty occupation argument USCIS uses to evaluate H-1B visa petitions for program management positions.
Target employers with established H-1B filing histories
Large technology firms, defense contractors, and consulting companies sponsor IT Program Managers at significantly higher rates than mid-market employers. Use Migrate Mate to browse open roles filtered by sponsorship history and employer type.
Align your degree to the role description precisely
USCIS scrutinizes program management roles for specialty occupation status. A degree in computer science, information systems, or engineering directly mapped to the job duties in the offer letter significantly reduces the risk of an RFE.
Document the technical complexity of programs you've managed
Vague experience descriptions weaken H-1B petitions. Quantify portfolio size, team structures, and technical scope in your resume and support letter so the employer's attorney can build a clear specialty occupation argument around your role.
Understand how L-1A transfers apply to your situation
If you currently work for a multinational company overseas, an L-1A intracompany transfer is often faster than the H-1B lottery. IT Program Managers overseeing cross-border programs frequently qualify under the managerial or executive capacity criteria.
Request premium processing if timing is critical
USCIS premium processing guarantees a decision within 15 business days for H-1B petitions. If you're between roles, on OPT, or approaching a grace period deadline, ask your employer to include premium processing in the petition.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is IT Program Manager considered a specialty occupation for H-1B purposes?
It depends on how the role is defined. USCIS has issued RFEs for program management roles where the position description was too broad or didn't require a specific bachelor's degree. Roles clearly tied to IT systems architecture, enterprise software delivery, or technical infrastructure are more defensible. The job posting and support letter must establish that a degree in a specific technical field is a normal minimum for the position.
What degree do I need for an employer to sponsor me as an IT Program Manager?
Most employers require a bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, information technology, engineering, or a closely related field. A general business or management degree alone may not satisfy USCIS specialty occupation requirements without supplemental technical coursework or credentials. Some employers accept equivalent experience under the 3-for-1 rule, but this requires careful documentation and increases RFE risk.
Which employers commonly sponsor IT Program Managers for H-1B visas?
Large technology companies, federal IT contractors, and global consulting firms file the most LCAs for this title. Defense and government IT contractors are particularly active sponsors because they run long-duration programs requiring experienced managers. Browse current openings with sponsorship on Migrate Mate, where roles are filtered specifically for visa-sponsored positions in this field.
Can I use OPT extension or STEM OPT to work as an IT Program Manager while waiting for H-1B?
Yes, if your degree is in a STEM-designated field such as computer science, information systems, or engineering. STEM OPT extends work authorization by 24 months, giving you up to three years total to work after graduation. Your employer must be enrolled in E-Verify and you must be in a role that is directly related to your degree, which most IT Program Manager positions satisfy.
Are IT Program Manager H-1B petitions frequently challenged with RFEs?
Program management roles receive more RFEs than purely technical roles because USCIS sometimes views them as general management positions rather than specialty occupations. The strongest petitions include a detailed job duties breakdown showing the role requires theoretical and practical application of computer science or engineering knowledge, rather than general organizational or leadership skills alone.
What is the prevailing wage requirement for sponsored IT Program Manager jobs?
U.S. employers sponsoring a visa must pay at least the prevailing wage, which is what workers in the same role, area, and experience level typically earn. The Department of Labor sets this rate to make sure companies aren't hiring foreign workers simply because they'd accept lower pay than a U.S. worker. It varies by job title, location, and experience. You can look up current prevailing wage rates for any occupation and location using the OFLC Wage Search page.