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As a Senior Manager you will be reporting to Business Process Improvement Leader (Global), you will assume responsibility to drive business transformation and digitization capability. You will act as a change agent, drive strategic business transformation initiatives aimed to achieve optimal performance. You will collaborate with business leadership to create a process transformation strategy, develop recommendations, and support the execution of improvement initiatives through re-engineering, automation, and digitization initiatives.

The role will provide a unique opportunity to participate as part of internal consulting group that helps our business functions transform their businesses through a blend of process re-engineering, process automation and KPI management. By focusing on customer, quality, and innovation you will have a direct impact on improving the profitability of Stryker.

Who we want:

• Effective communicators : People who regularly share relevant status updates and effectively articulate issues and recommendations to stakeholders and senior management.

• Goal-oriented orchestrators. People who can effectively coordinate and focus the work of skilled employees toward an important goal, prioritizing to the right activities that lead to success.

• Accuracy-oriented team leaders. Providing direct oversight of processes and results, managers who ensure accurate and timely completion of projections, forecasts or reporting.

• Metrics-oriented managers. People who are always tracking important business metrics to ensure projects meet expectations and budget.

• Collaborative partners : People who build and leverage cross-functional relationships to bring together ideas, information, use cases, and industry analyses to develop best practices.

What you will do:

• Lead the design and deployment of tailor-made integrated operational and digital transformation programs in line with business requirement.

• In close collaboration with business leadership, identify and define improvement opportunities that support the business' strategic objectives.

• Manage the analytics and data transformation portfolio using appropriate analytics framework.

• Provide expertise and advice to business leaders to accomplish the desired outcomes.

• Develop customized dashboards, optimization models for inventory, procurement, logistics, forecasting, Sales & Operations, and shop-floor scheduling planning processes.

• Identify key business metrics (Financial & Operational) and populate them on regular basis.

• Generate leads and build project pipeline (Business Development) by ensuring faster turnaround of improvement projects and establishing success stories in quick succession.

• Create and deploy effective BPI branding and communication strategy.

• Participate in analytics projects and business initiatives as they arise in SC operations.

• Develop mathematical / analytical models for resolving complex business problems.

• Create dashboards / applications using Power BI, Power Apps, Tableau, MS-Access and advanced excel.

• Build organizational capability improvement framework around innovative solutions, latest trends and methodologies and ensuring all staff are adequately trained on appropriate tools and techniques.

• Define annual BPI operating plan in-line with business strategy (Hoshin Kanri; X-Matrix approach) and deliver the annual BPI strategic plan by executing and mentoring projects having wide business impact

What you need:

• 12 - 15 years of demonstrated program management experience in more than one discipline (Logistics, Operations, Finance, R&D, Customer Management, etc.).

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent.

• Project Management and Lean Six Sigma certification desired but not essential.

• Strong analytical mindset, able to turn data into information.

• Must be fully qualified and have delivered analytical solutions using Business Intelligence (BI) tools, R, Python, SQL Coding, Java Coding, Alteryx, data crunching, advanced excel modeling, VBA coding & macro writing.

• Lean/Six Sigma certification or equivalent experience with problem-solving methodologies; experience with both small- and large-scale business transformation, organizational transformation, and process redesign

• Business-savvy individual with ability to drive key business outcome

• Financial acumen and ability to develop compelling business cases - tie operating metrics to the financial metrics.

• Highly developed communication, collaboration and influencing skills, including ability to create stakeholder buy-in.

• Must be fully qualified and have delivered Program/Project methods, techniques, and terminology in significant Programs.

• Excellent analytical skills.

• Demonstrated strategic capabilities, problem solving and change management skills.

• Excellent interpersonal communication, listening, influencing and management skills.

• Demonstrated experience in collaborating at all levels of the organization.

• Demonstrated leadership and experience in leading without authority.

• International Travel could be at 20-30% given the business needs

About Stryker

Stryker is a global leader in medical technologies and, together with its customers, is driven to make healthcare better. The company 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 130 million patients annually. More information is available at stryker.com. (http:)

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.