Program Manager, PMO

Stryker; Waltham (MA); On-site; USD 142,000 - 236,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401(k) plan

Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)

Life and AD&D insurance

Short-term disability

Job summary

Stryker is seeking a seasoned Program Manager for its Peripheral Vascular Division in Waltham, MA. You will lead projects from concept through commercialization, ensuring timely delivery of high-quality medical products within budget.

The role requires on-site work five days a week at the Waltham office, with demonstrated success in managing complex, regulated projects and strong collaboration with PMO and site leadership. PMP desirable and experience with hardware/software projects is a plus.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or related field required.
• 8+ years of experience leading engineering or product development programs in a regulated industry.
• Proven ability to manage multiple complex projects in a fast-paced environment.
• Proficient in Microsoft Project with experience creating and maintaining project timelines.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with PMO and site leadership to define and own project scope for arterial portfolio projects.
• Develop and manage detailed project schedules; own the timeline and monitor status.
• Analyze critical path, major work streams, and milestones across projects.
• Create project budgets with cross-functional managers; monitor and maintain costs within budget.
• Develop a risk management plan and monitor risk responses.
• Develop stakeholder engagement plans and manage expectations and requirements.
• Define roles, responsibilities, and deliverables for team members; coach and mentor staff.
• Develop and execute communications management plan for project team and stakeholders.
• Ensure adherence to divisional NPD governance processes and compliance frameworks.
• Lead change management across cross-functional teams; evolve processes and tools.

Skills

Project management

Cross-functional collaboration

Regulatory environments

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or related field

Tools

Microsoft Project

Job description

We are looking for a seasoned Program Manager in our Peripheral Vascular Division who thrives as an individual contributor while operating confidently in highly cross‑functional, regulated environments. You will lead projects from early concept through commercialization, ensuring delivery of high-quality, innovative medical products on time and within budget.

You will need to live within commuting distance to Stryker’s Waltham, MA office and be on-site 5 days per week.

What you will do:

• Collaborate with PMO and site leadership to define, manage and own project scope for arterial portfolio of projects.
• Develop and manage the detailed project Gantt charts. Own the schedule. Monitor and track the status. Evaluate tradeoffs within projects.
• Analyze critical path, major work streams, and intersecting milestones.
• Create project budgets with cross-functional managers and directors. Optimize, monitor, and maintain costs within budget.
• Develop a risk management plan for the projects. Identify, analyze, and understand project risks, develop and monitor a risk response plan.
• Develop a Stakeholder engagement plan for projects, based on the identification, analysis and understanding of Stakeholder expectations and requirements.
• Estimate, acquire and assign cross functional project resources. Define the role, responsibility, and deliverables for each team member. Coach and mentor team members.
• Develop and Execute communications management plan for project team, key stakeholders, and business leaders.
• Ensure projects adhere to divisional NPD governance processes, driving compliance to established frameworks to support consistent execution.
• Lead change management efforts across cross-functional teams to ensure smooth adoption of new processes, technologies, and strategies.
• Support maturation of the PMO organization by helping to implement new tools, templates, and technologies. Educate cross-functional resources on PMO initiatives and ensure consistent adherence to established processes and standards.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, or related field
• Minimum 8 years of work experience leading engineering or product development programs in a regulated industry
• Proven ability to manage multiple complex projects simultaneously in a fast‑paced environment.
• Proficient in Microsoft Project with experience creating and regularly maintaining project timelines.

Preferred Qualifications

• PMP Certification
• Experience with hardware, software and/or capital equipment projects
• Experience influencing cross‑functional stakeholders without direct authority

$141,600 - $236,000 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.