Manager, R&D Process & Technology Development

Stryker; Salt Lake City (UT); On-site; USD 124,000 - 207,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401(k) plan

Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)

Short-term disability

Dental and vision insurance

Job summary

Stryker is seeking a seasoned program leader to drive process development milestones for multiple NPIs, including catheters and neurovascular devices. You will head a diverse team, coordinate with divisional and operations functions, and ensure projects meet scope, budgets, and launch requirements.

You will guide programs from charter to financial plan, collaborating across the organization to overcome challenges and deliver products on schedule with expected quality and cost targets.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering or related engineering discipline.
• 8+ years of technical experience in product or process development.
• 2+ years of people management experience.

Responsibilities

• Achieve process development milestones on 2+ NPIs for catheters and neurovascular devices.
• Lead cross-functional teams across divisions and operations to hit product launches on time.
• Define priorities, scope, resources, and budgets for each new product.
• Assess charters and financial plans, including standard cost and launch requirements.
• Resolve NPI challenges and drive effective resolutions with stakeholders.
• Remove obstacles, allocate resources, and guide the team through complex scenarios.
• Establish urgency to deliver new products within quality, cost, and timeline expectations.

Skills

Leadership

Project management

NPI experience

Process validation

Engineering

Education

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering or related engineering

Tools

DFM

Lean methodologies

Job description

Job Description

In this role, you will be responsible for achieving process development milestones on two or more new product introductions (NPI’s). You will lead a team who have various levels of experience who are tasked with the project management for NPI projects used to manufacture catheters, guidewires and implantable neurovascular devices.

• Partner effectively across divisional and operations functions to deliver new products to market on time.
• Provide clear direction on projects and define priorities for the team.
• Determine project scope, scale, resource needs, and financial requirements for each new product, while maintaining accountability for capital and expense budgets.
• Critically assess new product charters and financial plans to identify key deliverables, including standard cost and launch requirements.
• Collaborate with counterparts across the broader organization to address common NPI challenges and implement effective resolutions.
• Guide the team through complex or difficult situations, remove obstacles, assign appropriate resources, and partner with other functions to resolve issues.
• Establish priorities and create a sense of urgency to deliver new products within quality, cost, and timeline expectations.

Job Description

In this role, you will be responsible for achieving process development milestones on two or more new product introductions (NPI’s). You will lead a team who have various levels of experience who are tasked with the project management for NPI projects used to manufacture catheters, guidewires and implantable neurovascular devices.

• Partner effectively across divisional and operations functions to deliver new products to market on time.
• Provide clear direction on projects and define priorities for the team.
• Determine project scope, scale, resource needs, and financial requirements for each new product, while maintaining accountability for capital and expense budgets.
• Critically assess new product charters and financial plans to identify key deliverables, including standard cost and launch requirements.
• Collaborate with counterparts across the broader organization to address common NPI challenges and implement effective resolutions.
• Guide the team through complex or difficult situations, remove obstacles, assign appropriate resources, and partner with other functions to resolve issues.
• Establish priorities and create a sense of urgency to deliver new products within quality, cost, and timeline expectations.

What You Need:

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or a related engineering discipline.
• 8+ years of technical experience in a product or process development role.
• 2+ years of people management experience.

Preferred Skills:

• Results-driven leadership style with the ability to motivate and guide teams.
• Strong technical skills and knowledge of medical device manufacturing processes.
• Strong interpersonal, communication, influencing, and presentation skills.
• Demonstrated leadership, project management, process validation, and engineering experience in new product introduction, with a track record of bringing products to market.
• Experience with process mapping, design transfer, design for manufacturability (DFM), Lean methodologies, and Class 6 clean rooms.

United States of America Pay Ranges:

• $123,900 - $206,500 USD Annual

• 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.