Senior Manager, PMO, R&D

Stryker presents a rare and exciting opportunity to join a highly motivated team in developing key technology to enable the evolution of new surgical techniques in Ear, Nose & Throat (ENT) surgery. The successful candidate will be based at our Innovation Center facility in Cork, Ireland, where our office space and labs are designed to enable our multi-disciplined product development teams acquire an intimate appreciation of our customers’ needs while designing and bringing innovative solutions for ENT applications to market.

Job Summary

Leads or coordinates cross-functional project/program teams from design to delivery of fully-developed products that are ready for customer use. Monitors performance and recommends schedule changes, cost adjustments or resource additions. Investigates facts and develops solutions to problems during the design and planning phases. Provides timely and accurate information and status updates to functional leaders. May be responsible for feasibility studies and field trials management.
This is a management position that contributes and achieves results through others. The role is responsible for managing subordinates in professional jobs or managing through subordinate managers / supervisors or is a leader of process that achieves results through others, whom are not direct reports. Job requires comprehensive understanding of the concepts and principles in their discipline. The requirement for a broader knowledge implies the need to understand other concepts and principles in context in order to resolve issues that have an impact beyond the area. The job has full management responsibility including the management of numerous teams of managers/professionals, planning for the teams' future needs and operations. There will be financial accountability for independent budgets. This job typically requires a degree or equivalent and a minimum of 10 or more years experience.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Who we want:

Sets direction. An leader who defines ways to create value and deliver on Stryker’s mission and strategic imperatives.

Builds organizational capability. A strategic leader who continuously breaks down barriers, identifying new and more effective ways to accomplish tasks and goals.

Inspires others. A genuine, relationship focused leader who connects, collaborates and fosters an inclusive environment of enthusiasm, trust and pride. You make others want to follow, building momentum for action and positively influencing outcomes.

Champions talent development. A manager who focuses on maximizing the ability, potential and contributions of themselves and others. You foster an environment where people can excel through developing, coaching and rewarding performance.

Delivers results. An active mentor who sets high goals for personal achievement and organizational success. You measure success against the best internal and external benchmarks.

What you will do:
• Ensure the implementation of Integration Management strategies and templates. Provide Mentorship in Integration management practices.
• Collaborate with BU leadership to define and manage program scope. Contribute to the creation of detailed Work Breakdown Structure.
• Contribute to the detailed project Gantt chart. Collaborate with PM on major workstreams, and intersecting milestones. Own your teams program schedule.
• Collaborate with cross-functional managers and directors to devise program budget. Optimize, monitor and maintain your team's costs within budget.
• Implement quality management strategies and templates for projects and programs. Provide Mentorship in Quality management practices.
• Implement risk management strategies and templates for projects and program enabling effective identification and monitoring of risk response plan. Provide Mentorship in risk management practices.
• Ensure the Implementation of Procurement Management strategies and templates and be a strategic partner in the selection of procurement partners.
• 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.
• 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
• Support the management of divisional/department strategic planning activities to meet divisional/department goals.
• Champions talent strategy in the department. Builds mutual trust and drives collaboration across teams. Regularly develops people and talent pools.
• May lead PMO function for a business. Manage and optimize department portfolio budgets. May lead a portfolio governance board for department. Builds mutual trust and drives collaboration across teams.
• Additional role-specific technical areas of responsibilities may be added as deemed necessary by the local hiring manager.
• Shows care and concern about team members, regardless of background, and creates an inclusive team environment for team members with different cultural backgrounds
• Demonstrates tact and diplomacy when confronted with politically contentious situations, stays calm under pressure and has great conflict resolution skills
• Consistently drives results despite demanding deadlines, and proactively seeks to go above and beyond, taking on additional responsibility and leadership roles where appropriate
• Leads a stellar team – knows how to play to people’s strengths; creates an environment of high morale with strong recognition and barrier removal team members
• Can gain end-user/stakeholder feedback across all levels to make the project better, efficiently using stakeholders’ time and incorporates feedback throughout the project/program life cycle
• Is a great communicator both formally and informally; use accessible language and can speak confidently and with a sense of authority
• Is a great influencer – gains agreement from both sides of discussion, expertly crafting arguments to objections
• Forges strong relationships with outside colleagues and incorporates insight on common delivery and execution challenges from network to drive projects and improve team performance
• 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.
• Considers the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one for project or program, applying a structured approach to problem solving without deferring to others
• Deals well with ambiguity and can make decisions with relevant but not necessarily complete information
• Works well with a wide variety of people, adapt to change and encourage cooperative learning through performance feedback
• Additional role-specific knowledge and capabilities may be added as deemed necessary by the local hiring manager.
Minimum Qualifications (Required):
• BS or equivalent and 10+ years of work experience
Preferred Qualifications (Strongly desired):
• PMP or equivalent
• MBA and/or MS preferred

Supervisory Responsibilities

This position will have direct reports.