Senior Project Manager

Title: Senior Project Manager, NPD

Location: Portage, Michigan 

Work flexibility: Hybrid or Onsite

Req ID: R536980

Employee type: Full Time

Job category: Project/Program Management

Travel: 10%

Relocation: Yes

Job Description:

Why join Stryker?

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We are proud to offer you our total rewards package which includes bonuses, healthcare, insurance benefits, retirement programs, wellness programs, as well as service and performance awards – not to mention various social and recreational activities, all of which are location specific.

Job description

As the Senior Project Manager, you will lead a cross-functional engineering team in the planning, coordinating, monitoring and execution of new product development 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 for Stryker’s Surgical Technologies business unit within Stryker Instruments.

You will need to live within commuting distance to our Portage, Michigan office. You will need to be in the office 3 days a week and can work from home on other days.

 

What you will do

• Lead the team in the development of the project charter and management plan.  Direct, manage, monitor, and control project.   Develop strong business case and evaluate tradeoffs within project.

• Collaborate with project stakeholders to develop, manage and own project scope.  Create detailed Work Breakdown Structure.

• Develop and manage the detailed project Gantt chart.  Analyze critical path, major workstreams, and intersecting milestones. Own the project schedule

• Collaborate with cross-functional managers to define project budget. Monitor and maintain costs within budget.

• Partner with project team to create project Quality Plans using 2-3 quality planning tools and techniques. Monitor and maintain plans.

• 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.

 

What you need

Required Qualifications:

• Minimum Bachelor’s of Science Degree in Engineering or Computer Science or related discipline (Mechanical Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Engineering Management)

• Minimum 6 years of work experience within engineering or manufacturing with 2 years of Project Management leadership experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• New Product Development experience or product launch experience

• Utilization of Agile and rolling-wave or waterfall planning methodology

• Knowledge of materials and manufacturing processes for product design

• Lead or developed projects for medical devices or regulated industries

• PMP or equivalent 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.