• Job Description

  Req#: R512428
  Work Flexibility: Hybrid or Onsite

  Stryker is seeking to hire a Project Manager to support Stryker’s Orthopaedic Instruments division. This role is hybrid, and can be located in Mahwah, NJ or Kalamazoo, MI. Orthopaedic Instruments | Stryker

  
  

  Who We Want:

  • Analytical problem solvers. People who go beyond just fixing to identify root causes, evaluate optimal solutions, and recommend comprehensive upgrades to prevent future issues.
  • Dedicated achievers. Relentless about quality, people who thrive in a fast-paced environment and will stop at nothing to ensure a project is complete and meets regulations and expectations.
  • Goal-oriented orchestrators. People who can effectively coordinate and focus the work of skilled employees toward an important goal, prioritizing to the right activities that lead to success.
  • Charismatic networkers. Relationship-savvy people who intentionally make connections with both internal partners and external contacts.
  • Effective communicators. People who regularly share relevant status updates and effectively articulate issues and recommendations to stakeholders and senior management.

  What You Will Do:

  As a Project Manager, you will lead a cross-functional engineering team in the planning, coordinating, monitoring and execution of new medical device projects. In your role, you will ensure R&D projects are completed on time/cost & budget. You will support cutting edge medical device products from the inception phase to launch.

  • Lead the team in the development of the project charter and management plan. Direct, manage, monitor, and control project. Evaluate tradeoffs within project.
  • Collaborate with project stakeholders to develop, manage and own project scope.
  • Develop and manage the detailed project Gantt chart. Analyze critical path, major workstreams, and intersecting milestones.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional managers to define project budget. Monitor and maintain costs within budget.
  • Develop a risk management plan for the project. Identify, analyze, and understand project risks; develop and monitor a risk response plan.
  • Estimate, acquire and assign cross functional project resources. Define the role, responsibility, and deliverables for each team member. Provide direct feedback to functional manager on performance reviews.
  • Develop a Stakeholder management plan for the project, based on the identification, analysis and understanding of Stakeholder expectations.
  • Builds successful working relationships with internal and external personnel in various departments.
  • High in emotional intelligence and stays calm under pressure. Adept in conflict resolution
  • Drives results in support of the business, even in the face of demanding timelines. Steps up to take on additional responsibility where appropriate.
  • Adept at team management; selects the right people to the right tasks all while maintaining team morale and recognizing contributions.
  • Influence without direct authority in a way that makes others want to be on their team.
  • Incorporates end-user feedback to refine scope through the project lifecycle and can communicate changes, updates, and decisions to key stakeholders.
  • Can understand and communicate how goals fit into broader organizational goals and prioritize tasks/schedule accordingly.
  • Effectively apply and adhere to organizational Quality Management Systems and Design Control procedures.

  What You Need:

  Required

  • Bachelor’s Degree required; in engineering or technical discipline
  • 5 years of experience developing products in a regulated industry

  Preferred

  • PMP or equivalent
  • Medical device or regulated industry experience
  • Technical or management experience in electromechanical and/or software products
  • Experience with MS Project

  Travel Percentage: 10%

  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.

• About the company

  Stryker Corporation is an American multinational medical technologies firm based in Kalamazoo, Michigan.

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