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Stryker is seeking a Senior Manager, Advanced Operations to join our Neurosurgical team in Portage, MI. This collaborative leadership role offers the opportunity to drive meaningful impact at one of the world’s leading medical technology companies.

What you will do:

+ Key member of Advanced Operation (AO) leadership team. Formulate and implement strategic plans to help drive the overarching strategic plan and future direction of the organization.

+ Be an effective partner across all functions within divisional and GQO organizations to deliver associated new products in line with divisional pipelines. Participate in and lead a cross functional/divisional business forums and process improvement initiatives.

+ Responsible for directing the teams to work effectively and build collaborative relationships with product development across multiple divisions and with the manufacturing operations to improve the speed to market of new products, utilizing the new product processes and global advanced operations procedure.

+ Ensure a culture of collaboration exists between the AO NPI teams across the campus to ensure that key skill sets can be leveraged when required to ensure all projects are managed effectively and delivered in line with divisional expectations.

+ Develop detailed understanding of “best practice” in product launch performance within the ‘Medical Device’ industry.

+ Develop skills matrix in line with product road maps identifying the necessary training and coaching for team members to ensure that technical and team based skills are acquired, applied and maintained by team members.

+ Prepare and deliver annual budgets (headcount, expense and capital) for final review and approval. Approval authority for personnel requisitions and capital expenditure requests.

+ Provide direction to the team in complex or difficult situations, remove obstacles, assign appropriate resources and interface with other functions to assist with issue resolution.

+ Partner with HR in identifying, acquiring top talent while developing and retaining talent within the team.

+ Responsible for the implementation, enforcement and compliance of all relevant quality, regulatory and safety standards.

+ Contribute and execute customer facing activities like Voice of Customer and customer centric design in partnership with internal and external stakeholders.

What you need:

+ Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, biomedical engineering, or related discipline

+ 10+ years of engineering, management, or related experience

+ People management experience required

+ Project management experience preferred

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.