Senior Manager, Manufacturing Engineering

Stryker • Chandler, AZ

26d • $135,600 - $225,900 • Onsite

About The Position

Stryker is hiring a Senior Manager to support growth and the scale up of the multi-site Arizona Campus of Stryker Sustainability Solutions. We seek a leader who will develop a diverse team, capable of scaling growth through new product development and product transfers. This strategic thinker will use data analysis and sound engineering principles to identify a strategic funnel of process improvements, maintenance programs, and other key cost savings opportunities.

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science degree or higher in Engineering or related technical field
• 10+ years applicable experience
• 4+ years direct people management experience
• Leadership Experience: Talented performance coach who is skilled at providing actionable feedback to team members, setting clear performance objectives and managing team member performance.
• Advanced understanding of the healthcare market and competitors, conversant in clinical issues of relevance to Stryker.
• Experience executing a talent and performance management strategy.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate complex plans and technical information to team members within a division.
• Proven ability to deliver programs or other business goals on time, on quality and within budget.

Nice To Haves

• Continuous Improvement certification preferred (e.g.: Lean, Six Sigma, etc)
• Experience leading (preferred) or partnering with Facilities/Maintenance teams to bring reliability improvements into Facilities systems and production equipment.

Responsibilities

• Execute a robust talent offense for one or more teams by attracting, developing, retaining, and engaging top talent while driving personal/professional growth of individuals, the team and delivering high quality results with passion, energy and drive.
• Lead and mentor others in driving positive outcomes to abstract technical, business, and personnel problems based the application of problem-solving and process improvement methodologies.
• Make independent decisions for project, program, or portfolio level issues.
• Lead high complexity projects and initiatives within the business unit, with responsibility for planning, budgeting, meeting project goals and adequately staffing with talent.
• Lead and mentor others in complex cooperative efforts across cross-functional teams and business units, influencing multiple technical areas of expertise and building key relationships, to drive innovation and ensure achievement of business goals.
• Lead cross-functional evaluation of strategic improvement opportunities within the business unit; create a 3-5 year project improvement road map.
• Distill department Objectives, Goals, Strategy and Mission into performance objectives for direct reports.
• Drive financial accountability across direct team and roll-up at a project level.
• Lead cost center budget creation, projections, and tracking activities, and contribute to higher-level R&D budget at business unit level, projections, and tracking activities.
• Mentor, teach, and develop best practices for Voice of Customer and customer centric design activities.
• May lead Voice of Customer activities.
• Assess emerging opportunities and technologies that can better meet clinical needs and partner with customers, internal and external key opinion leaders (KOLs) to develop technical strategies that meet clinical/business needs.
• Collaborate and mentor on financial / business modeling and lead strategy and execution for one or more product segments / business function.
• Lead multiple programs of direct and indirect oversight to demonstrate compliance with applicable regulatory requirements.
• Provide overall direction to direct reports/department as related to design controls for new and existing processes/products.
• Review and approve (or delegate) program / project specific technical documentation and deliverables across multiple programs of direct and indirect oversight.

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 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: Senior