Project Manager, Advanced Operations

Work Flexibility: Hybrid

Who we want

• Business-oriented evaluators. People who effectively interpret information to demonstrate the effects of business initiatives, regulation and industry trends for sales, management, and leadership teams.

• Strategic thinkers. People who enjoy analyzing data or trends for the purposes of planning, forecasting, advising, budgeting, reporting, or sales opportunities.

• Collaborative partners. People who build and leverage cross-functional relationships to bring together ideas, information, use cases, and industry analyses to develop best practices.

• Goal-oriented developers. Keeping the customer and requirements squarely in focus, people who deliver safe and robust solutions.

• Motivated product launchers. People who bring strategic direction and drive for execution to ensure products are developed and launched with precision.

What you will do

• The individual will be responsible for project & stakeholder management, people management (where applicable) and the technical assessment of all assigned projects.

• The Project Manager will successfully lead an engineering team to deliver key programs or projects per associated timelines, quality requirements and budget.

• Assume overall responsibility for the successful initiation, planning, design, execution, monitoring, controlling and closure of a project. The Project Manager is responsible to the project stakeholders for delivering a project’s objectives within scope, schedule, cost, and quality

• Lead  New Product, Process and Technology implementation initiatives while tightly managing project spend on capital & expense budgets

• Define and clarify project scope while developing and maintaining the project schedule. Ownership for managing and reporting project progress.

• Work closely with Product Development, Advanced Technology and Global Marketing to drive successful project implementation. Actively engage with Manufacturing Operations to evaluate existing process layouts in terms of new process integration, ensuring best utilization of floor space, minimized handling and optimum process flow.

• Participate in the selection, training and performance appraisal process of project resources, including temporary contract SMEs as required

• Responsible for identifying, monitoring, and appropriately managing project risk and liaise with broader AO team on common NPI issues and resolutions

• Establishment of priorities, imparting a sense of urgency and importance to the team while using project management tools and techniques to support the delivery of new products per cost and time commit.

What you will need

• 3 to 5 years of experience in a technical and/or project management role

• Bachelor’s degree in an engineering discipline or with 4 or more years’ experience in a technical and/or project management role.

• Advanced English level

• Previous experience in a Manufacturing environment

• Demonstrated Leadership, Project Management and Engineering experience in New Product Introduction in a regulated environment would prove beneficial.

• Experience in an FDA regulated or regulated industry beneficial.

• High level of PC Skills required. (MS Excel, Access, PowerPoint, MS Project).

• Experience of GD&T, Process mapping, statistical methods and process/ product validations would prove beneficial.

• Will have demonstrated an ability to define project risk and to effectively manage project risks.

Travel Percentage: 30%

Stryker Corporation is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status. Stryker is an EO employer – M/F/Veteran/Disability.

Stryker Corporation will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information.