Senior Project Manager, NPD

As the Senior Project Manager, you will lead a cross-functional engineering team in the planning, coordinating, monitoring, and executing 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.

To learn more about Stryker’s Surgical Technologies portfolio, click here: https://www.stryker.com/us/en/surgical-technologies.html

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 developing the project charter and management plan. Direct, manage, monitor, and control projects. Develop a strong business case and evaluate tradeoffs within a project.
• Collaborate with project stakeholders to develop, manage, and own project scope. Create a detailed Work Breakdown Structure.
• Develop and manage the detailed project Gantt chart. Analyze critical paths, major workstreams, and intersecting milestones. Own the project schedule.
• Collaborate with cross-functional managers to define project budgets. Monitor and maintain costs within budget.
• Partner with the project team to create Quality Plans using 2-3 quality planning tools and techniques. Monitor and maintain plans.
• Develop a project risk management plan. Identify, analyze, and understand project risks; develop and monitor a risk response plan.
• Estimate, acquire, and assign cross-functional project resources. Define each team member's role, responsibility, and deliverables.
• Provide direct feedback to the functional manager on performance reviews.
• Develop a Stakeholder management plan for the project based on identifying, analyzing, and understanding Stakeholder expectations.
  
  

What You Need

Required Qualifications:

• Minimum Bachelor 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
• Led or developed products for medical devices or regulated industries
• Experience developing injection-molded products and/or single-use products
• 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.