Senior Manager, Engineering

Why engineering at Stryker?

At Stryker we are dedicated to improving lives, with a passion for researching and developing new medical device products. As an engineer at Stryker, you will be proud of the work that you will be doing, using cutting-edge technologies to make healthcare better. Here, you will work in a supportive culture with other incredibly talented and intelligent people, creating industry-leading medical technology products. You will also have growth opportunities as we have a culture that supports your personal and professional development.

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Senior Manager, Engineering (NPI)

Location: Stryker R&D Innovation Centre.

Division: ENT (Ear, Nose & Throat) https://www.stryker.com/ie/en/ent.html

The goal of Stryker ENT is to offer innovative technology for treatments of chronic and recurrent diseases of the ear, nose and throat. We deliver solutions that support both advanced and minimally invasive procedure needs, and our portfolio offers innovative treatment options to your patients and flexibility of procedural environment to you.

Who we want:

This role requires a leader who can affectively manage multi-site, multi-divisional responsibilities for leaders, project managers & engineers tasked with the commercialization of new products & platform technologies in line with divisional portfolios. They must be able to ensure timely delivery of high quality, innovative new products and technologies through close collaboration with our divisional business partners & GQO, thus enabling Stryker to win in the marketplace. They also need to be a committed coach, mentor and developer of people while managing stakeholder relationships and influence across both commercial and GQO structures.

What you will do:
Technical / Managerial Responsibilities

• Key member of NPI leadership team. Formulate and implement strategic plans to help drive the overarching strategic plan and future direction of the organization.
• Be an effective partner across all functions within divisional and global organizations to deliver associated new products in line with divisional pipelines. Participate in and lead a cross functional/divisional business forums and process improvement initiatives.
• Responsible for directing the teams to work effectively and build collaborative relationships with product development across multiple divisions and with the manufacturing operations to improve the speed to market of new products, utilizing the new product processes and global advanced operations procedure.
• Ensure a culture of collaboration exists between the NPI teams across the campus to ensure that key skill sets can be leveraged when required to ensure all projects are managed effectively and delivered in line with divisional expectations.
• Develop detailed understanding of "best practice" in product launch performance within the 'Medical Device' industry.
• Develop skills matrix in line with product road maps identifying the necessary training and coaching for team members to ensure that technical and team based skills are acquired, applied and maintained by team members.
• Prepare and deliver annual budgets (headcount, expense and capital) for final review and approval. Approval authority for personnel requisitions and capital expenditure requests.
• Provide direction to the team in complex or difficult situations, remove obstacles, assign appropriate resources and interface with other functions to assist with issue resolution.
• Partner with HR in identifying, acquiring top talent while developing and retaining talent within the team.
• Establish priorities imparting a sense of urgency and importance to effectively deliver new products per quality, cost and time constraints.
• Responsible for the implementation, enforcement and compliance of all relevant quality, regulatory and safety standards.
• All other duties as assigned.

Business Responsibilities:

• 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.

Qualifications/Work Experience Preferred

• 5+ years' leadership experience or substantial engineering support or project management experience in a team based environment is required.
• Experience in managing new products or process team preferred.
• Strong interpersonal, communication, influencing and presentation skills essential.
• Individual must possess strong leadership skills, proven ability to coach and mentor individuals in technical skills and people development areas. The individual should enjoy working in a dynamic and results driven team based environment with flexibility essential.
• Demonstrated leadership, project management and engineering experience in new product introduction in a regulated environment preferred.
• Self-starter with demonstrated efficient work methods, analytical & problem solving skills and the ability to manage multiple tasks in a fast paced environment.
• Strong knowledge in project management tools essential. Strong analytical skills with a high problem solving and process improvement orientation critical.
• Requires an analytical, logical and strategic thought process.
• Experience of GD&T, process mapping, statistical methods and process/ product validations would prove beneficial.
• Excellent PC skills (MS Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Project).
• Excellent attention to detail.
• May require international and/or domestic travel of 20%.

About Stryker

Stryker is one of the world's leading medical technology companies and, together with our customers, is driven to make healthcare better.

The company offers innovative products and services in Medical and Surgical, Neurotechnology, Orthopedics, and Spine that help improve patient and healthcare outcomes. Alongside its customers around the world, Stryker impacts more than 100 million patients annually.

More information is available at stryker.com