Senior Project Manager, R&D

Project/Program Management       ·       Portage, MI       ·       Full time

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Senior Project Manager, R&D
Work Flexibility: Hybrid or Onsite
Location: Stryker Innovation Centre, Cork
Work Model: Hybrid
Reports to: Director of Program Management, Neurosurgical

Stryker Neurosurgical is looking for a stand-out Senior Project Manager, motivated and determined to deliver best-in-class medical devices within our Neurosurgical R&D team in Cork Ireland. You will lead a team working with the best neuro surgeons in the world in a fast-paced, high-energy business unit, focused on advancing neurosurgery and transforming the lives of patients through the development of exciting new technologies.

Who we want:

• Dedicated high achievers. Relentless about quality, people who thrive in a fast-paced environment and will stop at nothing to ensure a project is complete and meets regulations and expectations.
• Goal-oriented orchestrators. People who can effectively coordinate and focus the work of skilled employees toward an important goal, prioritizing to the right activities that lead to success.
• Motivated product launchers. People who bring strategic direction and drive for execution to ensure innovative products and solutions are developed and seamlessly launched within budget and time constraints.
• Effective communicators. People who regularly share relevant status updates and effectively articulate issues and recommendations to stakeholders and senior management.
• Analytical problem solvers. People who go beyond just fixing to identify root causes, evaluate optimal solutions, and recommend and implement comprehensive improvements to prevent future issues.

What you will do:

• Provide overall project direction for schedule, cost, performance, and resources.
• Lead a cross-functional project team from early concept design to delivery of fully commercialized medical device.
• Closely monitor project performance to be able to recommend schedule changes, cost adjustments or resource additions as needed to deliver on project commitments. Partner with Marketing and R&D to develop project business cases, determine user needs, and execute customer use trials.  Provide timely and accurate information and status updates to leadership throughout project life cycle.
• Responsible for team dynamics and making sure the team is optimally organized across multiple International Stryker Sites
• Develop strong relationships with team members across multiple International Stryker Sites
• Create, monitor, and control project plans including: Scope, Schedule / Burndowns / Task Lists / Resources, Business Case / Capital Equipment Request / Budget, Risk Assessments / Mitigation / Contingency Planning
• Support development of functional specifications that fully define project and product.
• Provide periodic progress reports to other functional areas of the company affected by the project
• Communicate regularly with key stakeholders on project health and key issues
• Learn clinical applications of product and help plan interaction with surgeons and hospital staff through VOC (Voice of Customer) events

What you need

• Level 8 Honours Bachelor’s Degree; Engineering or related technical discipline
• 6+ yrs mechanical, electrical/electronics or software design/manufacturing engineering experience including a minimum of 2+ years project management experience
• PMI Certification, preferred
• Experience in New Product Development, preferred
• Demonstrated ability to lead/facilitate cross-functional teams
• Demonstrated ability to plan, track and facilitate projects using applicable tools (Gantt, Burndowns, etc.)

Travel Percentage: 30%

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