Manager, Business Transformation Partner
Phoenix, AZ - USA
Job Summary
Manager Business Transformation Partner
The Manager Business Transformation Partner supports the SSS business unit by advancing priority initiatives connecting BU strategy to enabling functions and helping the business respond to emerging disruptions that may impact how work gets done. This role operates on the front end of ambiguity by translating business needs workflow friction and emerging opportunities into clear problem statements options tradeoffs and coordinated action. The role helps build practical strategies and drive responsible adoption of new ways of working with AI as the current major disruption and near-term focus area.
Essential duties & responsibilities:
Advance BU Must-Wins and Priority Business Initiatives
- Conduct discovery through business forums including EDRs and IDPs to identify workflow friction clarify business needs desired outcomes risks dependencies and decisions.
- Translate ambiguous or complex needs into clear problem statements options tradeoffs and recommended next steps.
- Coordinate stakeholders across the BU division enterprise PMO functional owners technical teams and execution teams to align scope ownership timelines expectations and handoffs.
Connect Strategic Objectives to Enabling Functions
- Maintain visibility to active and emerging initiatives supporting defined BU priorities.
- Lead or support an operating rhythm with enabling functions to review priorities gaps dependencies and opportunities to accelerate progress.
- Connect business leaders and functional teams to the right partners forums decision-makers enterprise resources and concise leadership decision materials.
- Experience supporting complex cross-functional initiatives in a matrixed environment including stakeholder alignment facilitation and leadership communication.
Drive Strategy for Emerging Disruptions
- Partner with EDT AI COE HR functional leaders SMEs and business users to identify AI automation or emerging technology opportunities aligned to business priorities.
- Facilitate discovery and prioritization of use cases based on value feasibility risk readiness scalability and workflow impact.
- Help redesign workflows so approved AI tools and emerging capabilities are embedded into how work gets done through pilots adoption playbooks reusable workflow patterns and practical examples that promote responsible use.
AI and Emerging Technology Orientation
- Curiosity and early-adoption mindset around topics like AI automation digital tools or emerging technologies.
- Ability to identify workflow friction and connect it to practical AI-enabled or technology-enabled improvements.
- Comfort experimenting with approved tools and translating learning into responsible usable business practices ahead of fully mature operating models or guidance.
Required Experience
- Bachelors degree in Business Operations Engineering Supply Chain Information Systems Communications Healthcare Administration or related field required.
- Demonstratable hand-on experience in business transformation process improvement project/program management Lean Six Sigma design thinking change management AI enablement or workflow redesign.
- 8 years of experience in business transformation operations project/program management process improvement strategy execution or cross-functional business support.
- Demonstrated ability to structure ambiguous business problems into clear options actions decision materials ownership paths and measurable progress.
Preferred Experience
- Experience in medical device healthcare manufacturing supply chain commercial operations sustainability solutions or regulated environments.
- Experience supporting business transformation in a BU division or enterprise setting.
- Exposure to AI enablement digital transformation process automation workflow redesign change adoption operating rhythms portfolio reviews stakeholder engagement models or executive decision materials.
- Masters degree preferred.
United States of America Pay Ranges:
- Puerto Rico: $102600 - $171000 USD Annual
- USN: $110100 - $183400 USD Annual
- US5: $115600 - $192600 USD Annual
- US10: $121100 - $201700 USD Annual
- US15: $126600 - $210900 USD Annual
- US20: $132100 - $220100 USD Annual
- US30: $143100 - $238400 USD Annual
Required Experience:
Manager
About Company
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