Senior Program Manager

Are you interested in working for a global company where you can work across functions and on a wide-variety of projects? As a member of Stryker's RA/QA team, that is exactly what you will do! Here, we provide our RA/QA team the opportunity to learn new things, as well as endless growth opportunities! If you are interested in working at one of the World’s Best Workplaces, apply now !

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• Key Areas of Responsibilities:
• Governance of T&E Regional QA portfolio plan and project management
• Apply project management methodologies and build a cohesive project with the team.
• Create and maintain other program documentation (e.g. charter, roadmap/pipeline, benefits map, design documentation, etc.) to meet business goals and program objectives.
• Optimizes number of projects in pipeline based on efficiency models and resource availability
• Track and forecast project performance with respect to timeline and budget.
• Accountable for aligning project portfolio and cadence Regional QA directives and strategic plan
• Partner with leaders across our global business to maintain engagement and focus on project commitments and dependencies.
• Monitor, document and provide awareness to leadership on all issues/risks that impact project or related initiatives.
• Develop and maintain project status tracking and reporting tools.
• Design, develop, introduce and maintain standard metrics for projects.
• Fosters relationships with key stakeholders across disciplines & functions
• Coordinates project and phase gate reviews with PRC
• Develop and execute a multi-stakeholder communications plan including periodic Leadership presentations.
• Support the planning and execution of meetings and events; conduct post-mortems.
• Improve team performance by building global team cohesiveness, leading, influencing, training, mentoring and motivating to facilitate cooperation, ensure efficiency, and boost morale.
• Guide organizational structure decisions in order to better execute projects and programs.
• Set the strategy for our program excellence/project management function.
• Ability to get troubled projects back on track, institute processes, and guide successful execution.
• Train employees on best practices for efficient projects.
• Ensure projects meet or exceed objectives, including budget and schedule.
• Provide guidance on portfolio resource requirements.

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.