Project Manager - Advanced Operations

Stryker; Cork; Hybrid; EUR 57,000 - 94,000; Full time

Job summary

Stryker is seeking a Project Manager – Advanced Operations in Cork. The role leads multiple NPI programs, ensuring readiness from development to commercialization. Hybrid in Cork. Permanent full-time.

You will partner with Global Quality Operations and Advanced Operations, manage risks, budgets, and stakeholder engagement. Requires engineering or science degree and 4+ years PM/engineering in regulated industry; NPI experience preferred.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or Science is required.
• 4+ years in project management, engineering, or a technical role in a regulated industry.
• Experience in New Product Introduction (NPI) is required.

Responsibilities

• Lead and deliver multiple NPI programs concurrently.
• Own full project lifecycle from scope to closure.
• Drive governance and accountability across programs.

Skills

NPI experience

Project management

Cross-functional collaboration

Risk management

Critical thinking

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering or Science

Job description

Position Summary

This role is responsible for leading multiple New Product Introduction (NPI) programs, ensuring operational readiness from development through commercialisation. The Project Manager will partner cross-functionally to deliver successful product and process launches aligned to quality, cost, and timeline objectives. While aligned to a primary program, this role requires ownership across multiple concurrent projects and strong critical thinking to drive decisions, manage risk, and ensure execution excellence.

Project Manager – Advanced Operations

Tullagreen, Cork (Hybrid)

Permanent Position / Full Time

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Lead and deliver multiple NPI programs concurrently aligned to business priorities.
• Own full project lifecycle: scope, planning, execution, monitoring, and closure.
• Serve as the primary conduit between Global Quality Operations (GQO) partners and Advanced Operations, ensuring alignment and execution.
• Drive disciplined governance and accountability across programs, ensuring adherence to processes and standards.
• Ensure successful ramp and robustness by proactively managing risks, readiness, and execution milestones.
• Lead stakeholder management across key forums, including DTAP, ensuring alignment, transparency, and decision-making.
• Drive cross-functional collaboration across Quality, Operations, Engineering, Supply Chain, and Commercial.
• Ensure manufacturing readiness, including process development, validation, and transfer.
• Manage capital and expense budgets.
• Establish clear communication plans and provide updates to stakeholders.
• Identify and manage risks across multiple programs.
• Drive structured problem solving and data-based decision making.
• Support operational excellence, DFM, and process optimisation.
• Foster accountability, urgency, and strong team engagement.
• Influence without authority
• Build a culture of transparency and execution excellence.
• Manage multiple projects concurrently.
• Champion disciplined governance and stakeholder engagement across GQO and AO interfaces.

What You’ll Need:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or Science required.
• 4+ years of experience in project management, engineering, or a technical role in a regulated industry.
• Experience in New Product Introduction (NPI) required.
• Strong understanding of manufacturing operations and quality systems.
• Experience in FDA or regulated environment preferred.
• Project Management certification preferred.

Ireland Pay Ranges

• Ireland: €57,000 - €94,000 EUR Annual

Compensation information

At Stryker, we believe transparency helps candidates make confident decisions about their next career step. Compensation is an important part of that process and we want to be clear about how pay is determined. The compensation information posted for this role may be presented as a salary range or a fixed amount depending on the role. In addition to base salary, this role may be eligible for incentive compensation (such as bonus and/or commissions where applicable), along with Stryker’s comprehensive benefits package.

Stryker's description

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 150 million patients annually.