Associate Project Manager - Bay Area/ San Jose, CA

Stryker • Modesto, CA

2d • Onsite

About The Position

This field-based role requires travel throughout the Bay Area & San Francisco, CA. The Associate Project Manager will contribute to project development, scope management, timeline creation, budget monitoring, quality planning, risk management, procurement planning, team development, and stakeholder engagement. The role involves gaining stakeholder trust, maintaining open communication, staying calm under pressure, driving results, and effectively communicating with diverse audiences. It also emphasizes networking, understanding organizational goals, building customer-centric solutions, consolidating data for decision-making, managing risk, and escalating issues appropriately. A growth mindset and the ability to learn new skills quickly are essential. Additional role-specific technical responsibilities may be assigned by the hiring manager.

Requirements

• BS and 2+ years of work experience or High School Diploma and 6 years of work experience

Nice To Haves

• CAPM or equivalent preferred

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the development of the project charter and/or develop sub-project charter and management plan. Recommend tradeoffs within project.
• Assist in defining and managing project scope; review with manager for approval. Outline major workstreams.
• Complete assigned tasks according to established timeline. Assist in the development of a detailed project Gantt chart. Manage a sub-project timeline.
• Collaborate with supervisor and/or project PM to establish sub-project budget. Monitor and maintain costs within budget.
• Partner with sub-project teams to establish project Quality Plans. Monitor and maintain plans.
• Create a risk register and management plan for the sub-project. Identify, analyze and understand project risks and develop sub-project risk response plan.
• Participate in the development of a Procurement Management Plan.
• Develop a sub-project team list with cross-functional staffing requirements. Define the role, responsibility and deliverables for each team member. Work with project or program manager to provide input to functional performance reviews.
• Create a Stakeholder register for the sub-project and assist in the preparation of a Stakeholder management plan.
• Support the development of a project communications management plan or develop a sub-project communications plan.
• Gains stakeholder trust, and maintains open communication channels with stakeholders, including development teams and sponsors.
• Stays calm under pressure timelines and seeks to add additional responsibility where appropriate to have an impact outside of core role.
• Self-motivated: enjoys tackling goals, growing and developing, and is accountable for goals being met.
• Consistently drives results.
• Effective communicator and presenter: understands how to engage diverse audiences, adjust as appropriate and checks for understanding along the way.
• Understands the importance of networking and utilizing that network to improve individual job performance.
• Actively seeks to understand how goals fit into broader organizational goals.
• Works to build customer centric solutions that are flexible as needs change, and incorporates customer feedback quickly.
• Can consolidate large amounts of data, pinpoint valuable information free of personal bias to make timely and durable decisions.
• Understands when to take risk and when to escalate, evaluating issues based on parts, patterns and relationships.
• Is able to pressure test ideas and share conclusions with a broader audience in a concise manner.
• Exercises good judgment regarding when and how to escalate issues.
• Growth mindset – learns from previous mistakes and picks up new skills quickly.

Benefits

• 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 contractor’s legal duty to furnish information.
• Stryker is driven to work together with our customers to make healthcare better.
• Employees and new hires in sales and field roles that require access to customer accounts as a function of the job may be required, depending on customer requirements, to obtain the COVID-19 vaccination as an essential function of their role.
• Stryker is one of the world’s leading medical technology companies and, together with its customers, is driven to make healthcare better. We offer innovative products and services in Orthopaedics, Medical and Surgical, and Neurotechnology and Spine that help improve patient and hospital outcomes.
• We are proud to be named one of the World’s Best Workplaces!

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: High school or GED