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Who we want:

This role is within the Product Transfer (PT) team in the Endoscopy Division. The role contributes to the delivery of high impact, cost transformative projects. The role will require the successful candidate to operate across a network of stakeholders from Sourcing, Operations and Divisional partners, therefore strong interpersonal skills and communication skills will be necessary.

Talents we are looking for:

• Goal-oriented orchestrators. People who can effectively coordinate and focus the work of project team members toward an important goal, prioritizing to the right activities that lead to success.

• Effective communicators. People who can interpret information clearly and accurately to concisely communicate results and recommendations to stakeholders, senior management, and their teams.

• Network builders. People who build connections with other teams and divisions and coordinate cross-functional collaboration.

What you will do:

• Assume overall responsibility for the successful initiation, planning, design, execution, monitoring, controlling and closure of a project. The Project Manager is responsible to the project stakeholders for delivering a project's objectives within scope, schedule, cost, and quality targets.

• Lead PT implementation initiatives while tightly managing project spend on capital & expense budgets

• Responsible for clear, objective and quantifiable measurement of Project/Programme progress (incl. PTQ, slippage, float, risk rating, financials etc.).

• Work closely with Divisional and GQO Reps to drive successful project implementation. Actively engage with internal business partners to ensuring optimal outcomes for each project

• Participate in the selection, training and performance appraisal process of project resources. Lead shared Campus resources and deploy in line with programme priorities.

• Responsible for identifying, monitoring, and appropriately managing project risk and liaise with broader OI team on common PT issues and resolutions

• Lead team in complex or difficult situations, removing obstacles, assigning appropriate resources and interacting with other functions to assist with issue resolution and streamlining of work process.

• Establishment of priorities, imparting a sense of urgency and importance to the team while following Project Management methodology in project execution

• Provide high quality leadership of Project Resources. Generate an engaging and positive environment. The Project Manager will be measured against milestone delivery and People performance throughout the Project lifetime.

• All other duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications, Knowledge, Skills (Required):

• Bachelors degree in an engineering discipline with 4 or more years' experience in a technical and/or project management role.

• Excellent analytical skills, ability to plan, organise and implement concurrent tasks.

• Ability to understand complex inputs and to be able to distil critical information.

• Excellent Interpersonal Skills - able to express ideas and collaborate effectively with multidisciplinary teams.

• Be open minded with the ability to recognise good ideas

Preferred Qualifications (Strongly desired):

• Demonstrated Project Management experience in Product Transfer and/or New Product Introduction in a regulated environment

• Experience in an FDA regulated or regulated industry

• Experience of process/ product validations, statistical methods, GD&T, Process mapping,

• Continuous Improvement and Project / Process Improvement related experience

Diversity is important to us. We welcome applications from people regardless of their ethnic, national or social origin, gender, disability, age or sexual identity.

Contact: We are looking forward to your application including CV, Cover letter, transcript of results, references. In case you have further questions regarding the position, please feel free to directly reach out to Robin Schwegler: +49 761 870 030 95

About Stryker

Stryker is a global leader in medical technologies and, together with its customers, is driven to make healthcare better. The company 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 130 million patients annually. More information is available at stryker.com. (http:)

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.