Who we want:
This section should be used by the hiring manager to describe the open role, highlighting key responsibilities and tasks. This verbiage will be used in job postings to draw in potential candidates.

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.
• Lead and mentor others in driving positive outcomes to technical, business, and personnel problems based the application of problem-solving and process improvement methodologies.
• Make independent decisions for project, program, or portfolio level issues.
• Leverage strong listening skills and written / verbal communication to influence and convey complex business, regulatory compliance, and/or technical ideas to customers, employees, peers, external partners, and senior leaders.
• Lead a culture of diversity, inclusion, and belonging at a team level in hiring and staff development.
• Lead high complexity projects and initiatives within the business unit, with responsibility for planning, budgeting, meeting project goals and adequately staffing with talent.
• Lead and mentor others in complex cooperative efforts across cross-functional teams and business units, influencing multiple technical areas of expertise and building key relationships, to drive innovation and ensure achievement of business goals.
• Distill department Objectives, Goals, Strategy and Mission into performance objectives for direct reports.

Business Responsibilities:
• Drive financial accountability across direct team and roll-up (if applicable) at a project level. Responsible for budget creation and contributing to higher-level R&D budget at business unit level, projections, and tracking activities.
• Partner with senior leaders to strategize and execute customer facing activities like Voice of Customer and customer centric design across the business.
• Partner with customers and internal / external key opinion leaders (KOLs) to develop technical strategies that meet clinical / business needs.
• Collaborate on financial / business modeling and contribute to strategy and execution for one or more product segments / business function.

Med Device Compliance:
• Lead a team and cross-functional counterparts to demonstrate compliance with applicable regulatory requirements for a specific project/program.
• Provide overall direction to direct reports/department as related to design controls for new and existing processes/products.
• 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.
• 8+ years applicable experience, with 2+ years direct people management experience preferred.
• Alternate degree requirements (e.g. Industrial Design) and additional role-specific qualifications may be added as deemed necessary by the local hiring manager.

Preferred Qualifications (Strongly desired):
Technical Skills:
• In-depth understanding of, experience in, and ability to mentor in one or more 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 complex plans and technical information to team members within a division.
• Proven ability to deliver programs or other business goals on time, on quality and within budget.
• Additional role-specific preferred qualifications may be added as deemed necessary by the local hiring manager.

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.