Senior Manager, T&E Upper Extremities PMO

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Position Summary:

The Senior Manager, T&E Upper Extremities PMO plays a pivotal role in ensuring strategic alignment and effective project management within their business unit. They will work closely with the Upper Extremities Division Operations team to establish an annual strategic plan, develop the associated project portfolio, and ensure successful project and program execution.

What you will do:

Strategic Planning:

• Collaborate with T&E’s Upper Extremities operations and commercial leadership to align operational strategies with commercial business roadmaps.

• Develop a robust portfolio of projects supporting operations and commercial business roadmaps.

• Actively seeks to develop awareness of project objectives and how they relate to broader organizational goals and prioritizes project tasks based on impact to these goals.

• Foster strong relationships and effective communication channels ensuring cross-functional collaboration and coordination.

• Establish key performance indicators to monitor operational performance, track progress, and drive continuous improvement.

• Deals well with ambiguity and can make decisions with relevant but not necessarily complete information.

PMO Management:

• Provide leadership and vision for the T&E Upper Extremities PMO, setting clear objectives, goals, and strategies.

• Responsible for evaluating a range of programs and projects and other work within the portfolio with the goal of facilitating staffing, resolving resource allocation conflicts, and monitor staff utilization on the activities that will generate the highest business value aligned with the prioritization process. May recruit, hire, onboard, manage, and develop direct staff.

• Implement project, program and portfolio management standards, methodologies, and best practices to predictably deliver projects.

• Conduct regular project reviews and provide executive-level reporting on project status, risks, and performance metrics.

• Identify project risks, develop risk mitigation strategies, and monitor risk throughout the portfolio. Set the tone for appropriate project / program risk-taking.

• Proactively identify and address project issues, ensuring timely resolution and minimal impact on project success.

• Foster a culture of continuous improvement by capturing lessons learned and implementing feedback mechanisms to enhance project management practices.

• Build and sustain effective stakeholder relationships at all levels, particularly with business partners.

• Develop stakeholder strategies for the effective management across broad range of expectations and requirements.

• Implement an effective communications management strategies to executive leadership with specific emphasis on business objectives delivery, efficient resource deployment, effective risk and issue management.

• Responsible for ensuring/coaching others in effective meeting management and group facilitation activities for programs/projects in scope of PMO

• Shows care and concern about team members, regardless of background, and creates an inclusive team environment for team members with different cultural backgrounds

What you will need:
• BS or equivalent and 10+ years of work experience

Preferred Qualifications (Strongly desired):
• PMP or equivalent
• MBA and/or MS preferred

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.

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