Manager - Data, Analytics & Automation - Regulatory Affairs, Quality Assurance & Clinical

Stryker; Michigan; On-site; USD 125,000 - 225,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401(k) plan

Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)

Job summary

Stryker is seeking a Manager - Data, Analytics, and Automation (RAQAC) to build and lead a centralized team across Medical Regulatory Affairs, Quality Assurance, and Clinical functions. You will drive data governance, analytics delivery, and automation initiatives to enable scalable, compliant decision-making and efficient operations globally.

The role emphasizes leading enterprise data initiatives, defining governance standards, and partnering with cross-functional stakeholders to align

Qualifications

• Minimum 2 years of people leadership experience.
• Minimum 8 years of experience in data analytics, business intelligence, automation, quality systems, regulatory affairs, operations, or a related field.
• Minimum 2 years of experience leading enterprise-level data, analytics, reporting, automation, or quality system initiatives across multiple business units, functions, or locations.
• Experience implementing data governance, reporting, analytics, or automation capabilities within a complex business environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a team responsible for data analytics, reporting, automation, and governance across multiple business units and sites.
• Define and execute divisional strategies for data, analytics, reporting, automation, and value realization, including prioritization, resource planning, and budget alignment.
• Establish accountability for data ownership, reporting standards, dashboard management, automation intake processes, and ongoing support models.
• Standardize metric definitions, data sources, reporting practices, and data lineage documentation to improve reporting consistency and data integrity.
• Identify and scale reusable dashboards, reports, data models, and automation solutions that reduce duplicated effort across the division.
• Drive automation and advanced analytics initiatives that reduce manual work, improve cycle times, and support operational efficiency.
• Partner with business, technology, quality, regulatory, and clinical stakeholders to align priorities, governance practices, and platform strategies.
• Lead portfolio planning, capacity management, performance monitoring, and change management activities for analytics and automation programs.

Skills

People leadership

Data analytics

Business intelligence

Automation

Regulatory affairs

Operations

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Power BI

Tableau

SQL

Python

R

Power Automate

DAX

Job description

Join Stryker’s Medical Division as the Manager - Data, Analytics, and Automation - RAQAC to build and lead a team focused on advancing data, analytics, reporting, and automation capabilities across Medical Regulatory Affairs, Quality Assurance, and Clinical functions. In this role, you will lead a centralized team responsible for data governance, analytics delivery, automation initiatives, and reporting standards that support effective decision-making, operational consistency, and scalable business processes across a global medical device organization.

What You Will Do

• Lead and develop a team responsible for data analytics, reporting, automation, and governance across multiple business units and sites.
• Define and execute divisional strategies for data, analytics, reporting, automation, and value realization, including prioritization, resource planning, and budget alignment.
• Establish accountability for data ownership, reporting standards, dashboard management, automation intake processes, and ongoing support models.
• Standardize metric definitions, data sources, reporting practices, and data lineage documentation to improve reporting consistency and data integrity.
• Identify and scale reusable dashboards, reports, data models, and automation solutions that reduce duplicated effort across the division.
• Drive automation and advanced analytics initiatives that reduce manual work, improve cycle times, and support operational efficiency.
• Partner with business, technology, quality, regulatory, and clinical stakeholders to align priorities, governance practices, and platform strategies.
• Lead portfolio planning, capacity management, performance monitoring, and change management activities for analytics and automation programs.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Data Analytics, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Quality, Regulatory Affairs, Statistics, Mathematics, Business, or a related discipline.
• Minimum 2 years of people leadership experience.
• Minimum 8 years of experience in data analytics, business intelligence, automation, quality systems, regulatory affairs, operations, or a related field.
• Minimum 2 years of experience leading enterprise-level data, analytics, reporting, automation, or quality system initiatives across multiple business units, functions, or locations.
• Experience implementing data governance, reporting, analytics, or automation capabilities within a complex business environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced degree in Data Science, Analytics, Information Systems, Engineering, Business, or another quantitative discipline.
• Experience in the medical device industry or another highly regulated industry.
• Experience with analytics and automation tools such as Power BI, Tableau, SQL, Python, R, Power Automate, DAX, or similar technologies.

United States of America Pay Ranges

• USN: $118,000 - $196,700 USD Annual
• US5: $123,900 - $206,500 USD Annual
• US10: $129,800 - $216,400 USD Annual
• US15: $135,700 - $226,200 USD Annual
• US20: $141,600 - $236,000 USD Annual
• US30: $153,400 - $255,700 USD Annual

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Health benefits include: Medical and prescription drug insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, critical illness insurance, accident insurance, hospital indemnity insurance, personalized healthcare support, wellbeing program and tobacco cessation program. Financial benefits include: Health Savings Account (HSA), Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs), 401(k) plan, Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), basic life and AD&D insurance, and short-term disability insurance. Stryker 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. Depending on customer requirements employees and new hires in sales and field roles that require access to customer accounts as a function of the job may be required to obtain various vaccinations as an essential function of their role.