Project Manager, Product Transfer

Work Flexibility: Onsite

Stryker Instruments is hiring a Project Manager, Product Transfer. This role will support the delivery of high impact, cost transformative projects and requires working closely with stakeholders across Sourcing, Operations, and Division partners. This is an onsite position in Kalamazoo, MI.

What you will do:

• Assume overall responsibility for the successful initiation, planning, design, execution, monitoring, controlling and closure of a project. The Project Manager is responsible to the project stakeholders for delivering a projects objectives within scope, schedule, cost, and quality targets
• Lead PT implementation initiatives while tightly managing project spend on capital & expense budgets
• Responsible for clear, objective and quantifiable measurement of Project/Program progress (incl. PTQ, slippage, float, risk rating, financials etc.)
• Work closely with Divisional and GQO Reps to drive successful project implementation. Actively engage with internal business partners to ensuring optimal outcomes for each project
• Participate in the selection, training and performance appraisal process of project resources. Lead shared Campus resources and deploy in line with program priorities
• Responsible for identifying, monitoring, and appropriately managing project risk and liaise with broader OI team on common PT issues and resolutions
• Lead team in complex or difficult situations, removing obstacles, assigning appropriate resources and interacting with other functions to assist with issue resolution and streamlining of work process
• Establishment of priorities, imparting a sense of urgency and importance to the team while following Project Management methodology in project execution
• Provide high quality leadership of Project Resources. Generate an engaging and positive environment. The Project Manager will be measured against milestone delivery and People performance throughout the Project lifetime

What you need:

• Bachelors degree in an engineering discipline
• 4+ years of experience in a technical and/or project management role
• Excellent analytical skills, ability to plan, organize and implement concurrent tasks
• Ability express ideas and collaborate effectively with multidisciplinary teams
  

Preferred:

• Demonstrated Project Management experience in Product Transfer and/or New Product Introduction in a regulated environment
• Experience in an FDA regulated or regulated industry
• Experience of process/ product validations, statistical methods, GD&T, and Process mapping
• Continuous Improvement and Project / Process Improvement related experience

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 contractors legal duty to furnish information.