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The Role
Lead and manage workplace operations across Australia and New Zealand, overseeing facilities, maintenance, space utilisation, vendor governance, budgets and regional projects. Drive employee experience, compliance, cost efficiency and cross-functional collaboration while coaching a regional team and delivering workplace strategy and change initiatives.
Summary Generated by Built In
Work Flexibility: Hybrid
At Stryker, we’re driven to make healthcare better. Our workplaces play a critical role in enabling our people to do their best work—and we’re now looking for an experienced Senior Manager, Workplace Operations to lead and evolve our workplace portfolio across Australia and New Zealand.
The role
Reporting to the Director, Workplace Operations (APAC), you will lead the day-to-day management of Stryker’s workplaces across the region. You’ll be the key point of contact for regional leaders, ensuring our facilities are safe, compliant, fit-for-purpose and aligned to business growth.
This is a senior, hands-on leadership role combining facilities management, stakeholder partnership, vendor governance, and strategic planning, with a clear focus on employee experience, operational excellence and scalability.
What you’ll do
- Lead, coach and develop a regional Workplace Operations team covering facilities, infrastructure, maintenance, space utilisation, workplace services and FM project delivery
- Partner with regional leaders to understand business needs and translate these into effective workplace, space and service strategies
- Lead and govern third-party service providers across facilities, building services, moves, hospitality, cleaning, security and related services
- Represent the business on regional RE&F projects including renovations, expansions and consolidations, including move planning and occupancy tracking
- Own regional operating and capital budgets, including forecasting, variance reporting and quarterly reviews
- Ensure safe, compliant and sustainable workplace operations in line with company standards, RE&F strategy and local regulations
- Identify and deliver opportunities to improve space utilisation, service delivery, employee experience and cost efficiency
- Collaborate closely with HR, IT, Security, Finance, Legal, EHS and global RE&F partners to deliver integrated solutions
What you’ll bring
Required
- 10+ years’ progressive experience in Workplace or Facilities Operations within a complex or regulated environment, with accountability for service delivery, vendors and budgets
- Experience leading geographically dispersed, cross-functional teams and operating effectively with senior stakeholders
- Demonstrated commercial acumen, including ownership of budgets and the ability to build business cases and drive change
- Experience delivering complex workplace or operational initiatives with strong communication, planning and organisational skills
Preferred
- Bachelor’s degree in Facilities Management, Engineering, Real Estate or a related discipline (or equivalent experience)
- Professional certifications such as IFMA, CoreNet, BOMA or LEED
Skills Required
- 10+ years progressive experience in Workplace or Facilities Operations within a complex or regulated environment, with accountability for service delivery, vendors and budgets
- Experience leading geographically dispersed, cross-functional teams and operating effectively with senior stakeholders
- Demonstrated commercial acumen, including ownership of budgets and the ability to build business cases and drive change
- Experience delivering complex workplace or operational initiatives with strong communication, planning and organisational skills
- Willingness to travel up to 30%
- Bachelor's degree in Facilities Management, Engineering, Real Estate or a related discipline (or equivalent experience)
- Professional certifications such as IFMA, CoreNet, BOMA or LEED
Stryker Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Stryker and has not been reviewed or approved by Stryker.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is described as comprehensive, with multiple medical plan options and added protections such as critical illness, accident, and hospital indemnity, plus mental health resources. Wellbeing programs, onsite gyms, and fitness/nutrition classes further reinforce the perceived strength of health benefits.
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Retirement Support — Retirement offerings are seen as strong, highlighted by a competitive 401(k) plan with company matching and potential discretionary contributions. These elements are often viewed as valuable pillars of total rewards.
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Strong & Reliable Incentives — Variable pay is viewed positively, with annual bonuses and sales commissions often lifting total compensation. Incentive plans are seen as a meaningful contributor to pay satisfaction in roles where performance drives earnings.
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The Company
What We Do
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 www.stryker.com. Together with our customers, we are driven to make healthcare better.
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