Job Description:
The R&D Manager Product Management leads a team of Product Analysts and Product Owners to drive operational excellence execution discipline and data-driven decision-making across the Product Management organization. This role builds and scales the systems tools and processes that enable predictable high-quality product delivery aligned to business strategy. This leader will partner across the Healthcare IT business to create visibility streamline execution improve roadmap transparency and accelerate time to value.
Technical / Managerial Responsibilities
Execute a robust talent offense by attracting developing retaining and engaging top talent while driving personal/professional growth of individuals/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.
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.
Product Execution & Operational Excellence
Partner with Portfolio Marketing to align roadmaps to customer problems and strategic priorities.
Collaborate with R&D leadership to remove delivery blockers and ensure cross-team alignment.
Serve as a key voice in Quarterly Business Reviews roadmap reviews and customer escalations.
Build a culture of ownership data-driven decision making and customer empathy within the team.
Establish operational standards for backlog readiness roadmap traceability Aha/Jira hygiene and release reporting.
Drive consistency and quality in product planning processesplanning inputs capacity/velocity reporting dependency tracking.
Ensure effective coordination between Product Owners and Program Management to support commercialization milestones.
Own the product technology stack (Aha! Jira Confluence analytics dashboards) ensuring adoption and scalability.
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.
Experience leading product delivery operations within Agile software development.
Strong understanding of backlog management best practices and release planning.
Experience working in SaaS AI/ML or platform-based product environments preferred.
EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS
Bachelor of Science degree or higher in Engineering or applicable technical field.
8 years applicable experience with 2 years direct people management experience preferred
Required Experience:
Manager
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. Alongsid ... View more