• Senior Project Manager

    Stryker (TN)


    The Senior Project Manager position is remote and can be located in the US Central Time Zone or US Eastern Time Zone. This person will be responsible for management of multiple projects; prioritize tasks and assign team members to ensure that the team's overall resources are used effectively and that project deadlines are met. Evaluate and authorize changes that significantly impact the scope, budget, or timeline of a project. Lead projects; monitor progress and performance against the project plan; identify and resolve operational problems and minimize delays. Manage ongoing relationships with internal customers and external contractors so that the organization receives satisfactory standards of service.

    Essential Duties:

    •Assume overall responsibility for the successful initiation, planning, design, execution, monitoring, controlling and closure of a project.

    • Responsible to the project stakeholders for delivering a project’s objectives within scope, schedule, cost, and quality

    • Lead Product Transfer projects and Manufacturing site support projects 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 the cross functional team 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 Product Transfer team on common 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.

    Basic Qualifications

    Education/Experience/Knowledge:

    • Bachelors degree in an engineering discipline

    • Six (6)+ years relevant experience in a technical or project management role

    • Excellent Interpersonal Skills - able to express ideas and collaborate effectively with multidisciplinary teams

    • Excellent analytical skills, ability to plan, organize and implement concurrent tasks

    • Demonstrated ability to define project risk and to effectively manage project risks

    • Proficient with Microsoft Office - MS Excel, Access, PowerPoint, MS Project, etc.

    Preferred Qualifications

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

    • Experience in an FDA regulated or regulated industry

    • Demonstrated Leadership, Project Management and Engineering experience in in a regulated environment

     

    Health benefits include: Medical and prescription drug insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, critical illness insurance, accident insurance, hospital indemnity insurance, personalized healthcare support, wellbeing program and tobacco cessation program. Financial benefits include: Health Savings Account (HSA), Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs), 401(k) plan, Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), basic life and AD&D insurance, and short-term disability insurance. Stryker offers innovative products and services in MedSurg, Neurotechnology, Orthopaedics and Spine that help improve patient and healthcare outcomes. Alongside its customers around the world, Stryker impacts more than 150 million patients annually. Depending on customer requirements employees and new hires in sales and field roles that require access to customer accounts as a function of the job may be required to obtain various vaccinations as an essential function of their role.

     

    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.