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Associate Manager, R&D Operations
- Stryker (Irvine, CA)
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What You Will Do:
At Stryker’s Inari Medical, we are transforming the lives of patients suffering from venous and other vascular diseases through purpose-driven innovation. As a fast-growing medical device company, we develop breakthrough technologies that treat life-threatening conditions with speed, safety, and precision. Join us in shaping the future of vascular health.
As the Associate Manager, R&D, you will oversee the development, engagement, and collaboration of your direct reports on the R&D our Inari Business Unit. You will lead the R&D Operations team comprising of personnel in the R&D Lab, Machine Shop, 3D Printing areas.
To learn more about Stryker’s Inari Division, click here (https://www.inarimedical.com/) :
+ Lead, mentor, and develop talent by fostering growth, engagement, and building a culture of diversity, inclusion, and belonging.
+ Demonstrate a strong passion for discipline in work execution, ensuring strategic, process excellence, technical rigor, and continuous improvement.
+ Develop and enforce procedures to ensure the effective operation of your areas as well as implement ideas and systems to improve efficiency of the shop and labs
+ Work with project teams to maximize utility of the R&D lab space and identify opportunities to share equipment and capabilities across the R&D organization
+ Communicate and influence effectively with customers, employees, partners, and senior leaders by conveying complex business, regulatory, and technical ideas clearly.
+ Drive financial accountability by creating, managing, and tracking project budgets while contributing to business unit R&D projections, financial models, and overall strategy.
What You Will Need:
_Required Qualifications:_
+ Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or Biomedical Engineering
+ 6+ years of experience in Mechanical Engineering or Biomedical Engineering
_Preferred Qualifications:_
+ >1 year of people management experience
+ Aspiring people leader with the ability to coach, mentor, and provide constructive feedback while developing skills in managing team performance.
+ Exposure to talent and performance management strategies, with interest in building high-performing and engaged teams.
+ Strong communicator, capable of clearly presenting plans and technical information across functions while fostering collaboration.
+ Proven ability to deliver complex programs and business objectives on time, on quality, and within budget, with a growing understanding of the healthcare market and competitive landscape.
+ $100k - $190k salary plus bonus eligible + benefits. Individual pay is based on skills, experience, and other relevant factors.
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.
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