Associate Manufacturing Engineering Manager
Stryker · Suzhou
Work Flexibility: OnsiteTechnical / Managerial Responsibilities
- Execute a robust talent offense by attracting, developing, retaining, and engaging top talent while driving personal/professional growth of individuals, the team and delivering high quality results with passion, energy and drive.
- Lead and mentor others in driving positive outcomes to technical, business, and personnel problems based the application of problem-solving and process improvement methodologies.
- Make independent decisions for project, program, or portfolio level issues.
- Leverage strong listening skills and written / verbal communication to influence and convey complex business, regulatory compliance, and/or technical ideas to customers, employees, peers, external partners, and senior leaders.
- Lead a culture of diversity, inclusion, and belonging at a team level in hiring and staff development.
- Lead high complexity projects and initiatives within the business unit, with responsibility for planning, budgeting, meeting project goals and adequately staffing with talent.
- Lead and mentor others in complex cooperative efforts across cross-functional teams and business units, influencing multiple technical areas of expertise and building key relationships, to drive innovation and ensure achievement of business goals.
- Distill department Objectives, Goals, Strategy and Mission into performance objectives for direct reports.
Business Responsibilities:
- Drive financial accountability across direct team and roll-up (if applicable) at a project level. Responsible for budget creation and contributing to higher-level R&D budget at business unit level, projections, and tracking activities.
- Partner with senior leaders to strategize and execute customer facing activities like Voice of Customer and customer centric design across the business.
- Partner with customers and internal / external key opinion leaders (KOLs) to develop technical strategies that meet clinical / business needs.
- Collaborate on financial / business modeling and contribute to strategy and execution for one or more product segments / business function.
Med Device Compliance:
- Lead a team and cross-functional counterparts to demonstrate compliance with applicable regulatory requirements for a specific project/program.
- Provide overall direction to direct reports/department as related to design controls for new and existing processes/products.
- Review and approve (or delegate) program / project specific technical documentation and deliverables.
• Additional role-specific key areas of responsibility may be added as deemed necessary by the local hiring manager
Minimum Qualifications (Required):
- Bachelor of Science degree or higher in Engineering or applicable technical field.
- 8+ years applicable experience, with 2+ years direct people management experience preferred.
- Alternate degree requirements (e.g. Industrial Design) and additional role-specific qualifications may be added as deemed necessary by the local hiring manager.
Preferred Qualifications (Strongly desired):
Technical Skills:
• In-depth understanding of, experience in, and ability to mentor in one or more technical / functional disciplines.
Leadership Experience:
- Talented performance coach who is skilled at providing actionable feedback to team members, setting clear performance objectives and managing team member performance.
- General knowledge of the healthcare market and competitors.
- Experience executing a talent and performance management strategy.
- Demonstrated ability to communicate complex plans and technical information to team members within a division.
- Proven ability to deliver programs or other business goals on time, on quality and within budget.
- Additional role-specific preferred qualifications may be added as deemed necessary by the local hiring manager.