Senior Project Manager, NPD

Work Flexibility: Hybrid or Onsite

As the Senior Project Manager, you will lead a cross-functional engineering team in the planning, coordinating, monitoring, and executing new product development medical device projects. In your role, you will ensure R&D projects are completed on time/cost & budget. You will support cutting-edge medical device products from the inception phase to launch for Strykers Surgical Technologies business unit within Stryker Instruments.

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You will need to live within commuting distance to our Portage, Michigan office. You will need to be in the office 3 days a week and can work from home on other days.

What you will do

• Lead the team in developing the project charter and management plan. Direct, manage, monitor, and control projects. Develop a strong business case and evaluate tradeoffs within a project.

• Collaborate with project stakeholders to develop, manage, and own project scope. Create a detailed Work Breakdown Structure.

• Develop and manage the detailed project Gantt chart. Analyze critical paths, major workstreams, and intersecting milestones. Own the project schedule.

• Collaborate with cross-functional managers to define project budgets. Monitor and maintain costs within budget.

• Partner with the project team to create Quality Plans using 2-3 quality planning tools and techniques. Monitor and maintain plans.

• Develop a project risk management plan. Identify, analyze, and understand project risks; develop and monitor a risk response plan.

• Estimate, acquire, and assign cross-functional project resources. Define each team member's role, responsibility, and deliverables.

• Provide direct feedback to the functional manager on performance reviews.

• Develop a Stakeholder management plan for the project based on identifying, analyzing, and understanding Stakeholder expectations.

What you need

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree

• Minimum 6 years of experience, with a strong focus on new product development (NPD).

• Proven ability to manage technical scope, schedules, and stakeholder alignment in an R&D or innovation-driven environment.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 2 years of project management experience leading cross-functional teams through full product development cycles.

• New Product Development experience or product launch experience

• Utilization of Agile and rolling-wave or waterfall planning methodology

• Knowledge of materials and manufacturing processes for product design

• Led or developed products for medical devices or regulated industries

• Experience developing injection-molded products and/or single-use products

• PMP or equivalent preferred

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