Associate Project Manager - Chicago

Stryker Corporation; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 86,000 - 143,000; Full time

Job summary

Stryker Corporation seeks a Field-based Associate Project Manager – Communications to drive complex customer projects across the Midwest. You will travel to customer sites, coordinate cross-functional teams, and manage multiple projects with clear visibility into timelines and budgets.

Responsibilities include scheduling, risk management, weekly revenue forecasts, and stakeholder communications, with CRM documentation to ensure delivery success across installations and handoffs.

Qualifications

• High school diploma with 6+ years relevant experience, or associate degree with 4+ years, or bachelor’s degree.
• Travel up to 70% within Midwest region.
• CAPM or equivalent certification preferred.
• Experience managing multiple concurrent projects.
• Experience in construction, engineering, or healthcare environments.

Responsibilities

• Manage 15–30 concurrent projects while maintaining defined quality standards and customer satisfaction targets.
• Identify and coordinate cross-functional teams, including internal partners and external stakeholders.
• Develop and maintain project schedules, tracking milestones, timelines, and deliverables.
• Analyze project risks and implement mitigation and response plans to minimize disruptions.
• Prepare and deliver weekly revenue forecasts, outlining monthly, quarterly, and annual projections.
• Conduct site visits to verify installation readiness and ensure pre-installation requirements are met.
• Lead project meetings including customer kickoff, launch sessions, planning meetings, and after-action reviews.
• Maintain accurate project documentation and workflow tracking within CRM systems, ensuring visibility for production, demand planning, and resource allocation.

Skills

Project management

Cross-functional coordination

Scheduling & forecasting

Risk management

Site visits

Meetings & communication

CRM systems

Education

High school diploma + 6+ years

Associate degree + 4+ years

Bachelor’s degree

CAPM Certification

Tools

CAPM Certification

Job description

Work Flexibility: Field-based Associate Project Manager – Communications

This role requires travel throughout Midwest Region. As an Associate Project Manager, you will support the delivery of complex customer projects within Stryker’s Communications business unit, partnering across teams to ensure projects move efficiently from planning through execution. This role offers hands‑on involvement in multiple concurrent projects, with clear visibility into operations, timelines, and customer coordination across the Midwest Region including the states of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota, Indiana, and Michigan. This is a field‑based role and requires regular travel to customer sites within the assigned territory. Candidates must have reliable transportation and be able to travel between multiple locations as business needs require.

What you will do

• Manage 15–30 concurrent projects while maintaining defined quality standards and customer satisfaction targets
• Identify and coordinate cross-functional teams, including internal partners and external stakeholders, for each project
• Develop and maintain project schedules, tracking key milestones, timelines, and deliverables
• Analyze project risks and implement mitigation and response plans to minimize disruptions
• Prepare and deliver weekly revenue forecasts, outlining monthly, quarterly, and annual projections
• Conduct site visits to verify installation readiness and ensure pre‑installation requirements are met
• Lead project meetings including customer kickoff, launch sessions, planning meetings, and after‑action reviews
• Maintain accurate project documentation and workflow tracking within CRM systems, ensuring visibility for production, demand planning, and resource allocation

Required Qualifications

Minimum high school diploma with minimum 6 years of relevant experience, OR associate degree with minimum 4 years of relevant experience, OR bachelor’s degree Minimum 2 years of related work experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience managing multiple concurrent projects
• Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM) or equivalent certification
• Minimum 2 years of experience in construction, engineering, or healthcare environments
• Knowledge of construction processes, construction schedules, trade coordination, site readiness requirements, facility renovation activities, or construction project coordination

$85,500 - $142,500 USD Annual Travel Percentage: 70%

Stryker Corporation is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status. Stryker is an EO employer – M/F/Veteran/Disability. Stryker Corporation will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information.

Stryker is driven to work together with our customers to make healthcare better. Employees and new hires in sales and field roles that require access to customer accounts as a function of the job may be required, depending on customer requirements, to obtain the COVID-19 vaccination as an essential function of their role. 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.