Associate Manager, Advanced Operations

Work Flexibility: Hybrid

What you will do:
Technical / Managerial Responsibilities
• Execute a robust talent offense by attracting, developing, retaining, and engaging top talent while driving personal/professional growth of individuals, the team and delivering high quality results with passion, energy and drive.
• Proactively drive positive outcomes to technical, business, and personnel problems.
• Make decisions under guidance for project level issues.
• Leverage strong listening skills and written / verbal communication to influence and convey business, regulatory compliance, and/or technical ideas to customers, employees, peers, external partners, and senior leaders.
• Support a culture of diversity, inclusion, and belonging at a team level in hiring and staff development.
• Lead projects and initiatives within the business unit, with responsibility for planning, budgeting, meeting project goals and adequately staffing with talent.
• Support and mentor others in complex cooperative efforts across cross-functional teams, influencing one's own technical areas of expertise and building key relationships, to drive innovation and ensure achievement of business goals.

Business Responsibilities:
• Drive financial accountability across direct team. Participate in cost center budget creation, projections, and tracking activities.
• Contribute and execute customer facing activities like Voice of Customer and customer centric design in partnership with internal and external stakeholders.

Med Device Compliance:
• Lead a team and cross-functional counterparts to demonstrate compliance with applicable regulatory requirements for a specific project/program.
• Follow and set example for others on procedures and design controls.
• Review and approve (or delegate) program / project specific technical documentation and deliverables.
• Additional role-specific key areas of responsibility may be added as deemed necessary by the local hiring manager


Minimum Qualifications (Required):
• Bachelor of Science degree or higher in Engineering or applicable technical field.
• 6+ years applicable experience, with 0+ years direct people management experience preferred.

Preferred Qualifications (Strongly desired):

Technical Skills:
• Good level of understanding of, experience in, and ability to mentor in one's own technical / functional disciplines.
Leadership Experience:
• Talented performance coach who is skilled at providing actionable feedback to team members, setting clear performance objectives and managing team member performance.
• General knowledge of the healthcare market and competitors.
• Experience executing a talent and performance management strategy.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate plans and technical information to team members within a business unit.
• Proven ability to deliver programs or other business goals on time, on quality and within budget.
 

Travel Percentage: 20%

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.

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