Senior Manager Clinical

Stryker; Bengaluru; Hybrid; INR 4,000,000 - 8,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Stryker in Bengaluru, India seeks a senior leader to develop a clinical center of excellence, oversee clinical programs, and drive cross-functional strategies to improve processes and outcomes. The role spans planning, execution, oversight, and stakeholder collaboration across regulatory, quality, R&D, and commercial teams.

The candidate will lead clinical study design, ensure ethical conduct, manage a team, and establish budgets and KPIs while mentoring talent to deliver scalable programs

Qualifications

• Minimum 15 years of experience in clinical operations or related field.
• 8+ years of management experience leading clinical projects.
• Bachelor's degree in life sciences, biology, biomedical engineering, nursing or related discipline.
• Advanced/Master's degree or certifications in clinical research and project management preferred.

Responsibilities

• Oversee planning, design, and execution of clinical studies ensuring compliance with applicable regulations and standards.
• Lead development of clinical study protocols ensuring they are scientifically rigorous and ethically sound.
• Manage day-to-day clinical processes and mentor a team of clinical professionals.
• Establish annual budgets and quarterly forecasts; monitor and report on KPIs and performance objectives.
• Collaborate with regulatory, quality, R&D, Global Supply, Finance, Sales, and Marketing to meet corporate goals.

Skills

Leadership

Project management

Cross-functional collaboration

Clinical research

Budgeting & forecasting

Education

Bachelor's degree in life sciences or related

Advanced/Master's degree or certifications in clinical research

Job description

Work Flexibility: Hybrid

Who we want:

A Leader to develop clinical center of excellence, develop organizational strategies, processes, goals, and metrics to drive measurable improvement in clinical processes. Oversee consistency in clinical processes. Drive new approaches to improve the development, review, and oversight of clinical projects. Collaborates with internal and external stakeholders to direct and contribute initiatives within the organization. Someone who provides global and/or regional leadership to execute large scale and/or complex clinical programs for assigned therapeutic area.

What will you do:

Oversee the planning, design, and execution of pre-clinical (if applicable), clinical studies ensuring they are conducted in accordance with applicable regulations and standards. Lead the development of clinical study protocols, ensuring they are scientifically rigorous and ethically sound. Manage day-to-day clinical processes to ensure issues are appropriately evaluated Manage and mentor a team of clinical professionals. Establish annual budgets and quarterly forecasts. Make necessary changes with appropriate management involvement. Communicate and collaborate with regulatory, quality, R&D, Global Supply, Finance, Sales, and Marketing departments to ensure corporate goals and strategies are met Serve as Subject Matter Expert for clinical processes. Provide guidance, recommendations, and implementation plans for adherence to new clinical requirements or expectations. Establish standard process to ensure appropriate resolution and management of the responsible task owner. Chair meetings required to drive closure of clinical issues. Manage and provide updates for clinical metrics. Implement appropriate enhancements. Define targets, KPIs, performance objectives, etc. for individuals within functional role, and manage direct reports to meet or exceed these targets. Recruit, select, and on-board top talent. Develop talent within team to increase performance. Actively address performance issues on team. Maintain a high level of team engagement.

What you need

• Minimum of 15 years of experience; minimum 8 years of management experience required and / or experience in leading critical projects for the business.
• A bachelor's degree in a relevant field such as life sciences, biology, biomedical engineering, nursing, or a related discipline.
• An advanced or master's degree, or certifications in clinical research and project management preferred.
• Strong experience in the medical device field required, experience in the pharmaceutical industry considered.
• Previous experience with regulated global trials highly preferred.
• Demonstrated knowledge and application of clinical requirements, including ISO, FDA, and International requirements.
• Demonstrated ability to expand application of clinical and regulatory knowledge to interdivisional projects as needed.
• Demonstrated written, verbal, listening, communication, and team-building skills.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively with and lead cross-functional teams.
• Demonstrated ability to effectively prioritize and manage multiple project workloads.
• Demonstrated experience with trending and analysis reporting.
• Demonstrated leadership skills.
• Demonstrated process improvement and management skills.
• Experience with recruiting, people development.
• Influence across the organization.
• Ability to understand scientific and health concepts.
• Lead, Develop, Solution, Functional Representative Lead cross functional projects and departmental initiatives.
• Support larger scale cross functional or intra-divisional initiatives Consistently demonstrating influencing skills impacting cross functional project and /or departmental results.

Travel Percentage:

None

Stryker is one of the world's leading medical technology companies and, together with its customers, is driven to make healthcare better. We offer innovative products and services in Orthopaedics, Medical and Surgical, and Neurotechnology and Spine that help improve patient and hospital outcomes. We are proud to be named one of the World's Best Workplaces! For more information, visit: www.stryker.com

Work Flexibility Remote - Role allows you to work the majority to 100% of time from an alternate workplace. These roles could have travel expectations, and you must work within the country of the job requisition location.

Field-based - You can expect to regularly work a majority to 100% of time at customer facilities and has a set territory or expectation to travel within a set boundary. Almost all sales roles would likely be qualified as field-based.

Onsite - Role is 100% located at a Stryker facility. Some ad hoc flexibility may be available depending on role, level, and job requirements. Manufacturing roles and any role that requires physical presence at the office would qualify under this category.

Hybrid - You can expect to regularly work in both an alternate workplace and a Stryker facility. Roles that are partially remote or co-located would qualify as hybrid, and the expectation to be onsite would be defined and agreed upon by your manager/supervisor.