Senior Project Manager, PMO (Hybrid)

Stryker; Mahwah (NJ); On-site; USD 103,000 - 197,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401(k) plan

Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)

Job summary

Stryker in Mahwah, NJ seeks a Senior Project Manager to lead complex finance-focused technology initiatives spanning business, product, technology, and vendor teams.

You will own large programs from planning through adoption, manage budgets and risks, and ensure governance and measurable business value across the enterprise. Experience with Agile, hybrid, and waterfall delivery, plus familiarity with Finance systems and SDLC practices, is preferred.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required.
• Minimum 6 years of project/program management experience.
• Experience with Agile, hybrid, and waterfall delivery.
• Experience with Finance technology and governance.
• Experience with SDLC practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead cross-functional Finance technology projects with defined scope and milestones.
• Develop integrated schedules, critical paths, and resource plans.
• Manage budgets, forecasts, actuals, and financial risks with Finance.
• Track risks and provide leadership updates.
• Coordinate requirements, testing readiness, deployment planning, and change control.
• Facilitate Agile, hybrid, and waterfall delivery incl backlog, sprints, releases.
• Oversee vendor engagement and SOW alignment.
• Measure outcomes, adoption, financial impact, and post-implementation performance.

Education

Bachelor's degree

PMP Certification

Tools

Azure DevOps

Planview

Smartsheets

Job description

As a Senior Project Manager, you will lead complex Finance-focused technology initiatives that span business, product, technology, and vendor teams. This role offers the opportunity to manage large-scale programs from planning through adoption, ensuring projects are delivered with clear governance, financial accountability, and measurable business value.

What You Will Do

• Lead cross-functional Finance technology projects by defining scope, delivery plans, milestones, dependencies, and success measures.
• Develop and maintain integrated project schedules, critical paths, release plans, and resource plans to support on-time delivery.
• Manage project budgets, forecasts, actuals, resource allocations, and financial risks in partnership with Finance stakeholders.
• Identify, track, and resolve project risks, issues, dependencies, and escalation items while providing regular leadership updates.
• Coordinate requirements management, testing readiness, deployment planning, change control, and transition-to-support activities across project teams.
• Facilitate Agile, hybrid, and waterfall delivery activities, including backlog prioritization, sprint planning, release planning, and stage-gate reviews.
• Oversee vendor engagement, statement-of-work alignment, deliverable tracking, and integration of vendor activities into overall project plans.
• Measure and report project outcomes, adoption metrics, financial impact, operational benefits, and post-implementation performance.
  
  

Required Qualifications

What You Will Need

• Bachelor's degree.
• Minimum 6 years of professional experience in project management, program management, technology delivery, or related business functions.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• PMP (Project Management Professional) or equivalent project/program management certification.
• Experience supporting Finance functions, including financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, accounting, reporting, Finance systems, or Finance transformation initiatives.
• Experience delivering enterprise technology projects using Agile, hybrid, and waterfall methodologies.
• Experience with software development lifecycle practices, testing, deployment, change control, and governance processes.
• Experience in product ownership, product management, roadmap delivery, backlog prioritization, or adoption planning.
• Experience using Azure DevOps, Planview, Smartsheets, or comparable project and portfolio management platforms.
• Lean, Scrum Master, or related Agile certification.
  
  

United States of America Pay Ranges:

• USN: $102,600 - $171,000 USD Annual
• US5: $107,700 - $179,600 USD Annual
• US10: $112,900 - $188,100 USD Annual
• US15: $118,000 - $196,600 USD Annual
• US20: $123,100 - $205,200 USD Annual
• US30: $133,400 - $222,300 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.