Associate Project Manager, Compliance

Stryker is seeking an Associate Project Manager to support its Global Compliance organization. The role manages small to medium-scale projects, supports enterprise project workstreams, develops project analytics and reporting tools, and coordinates project activities. It also evaluates and improves compliance processes, leads change management efforts, and promotes stakeholder engagement and operational excellence.

Responsibilities:

• Manage projects to achieve Compliance's strategic objectives, driving process improvements, business transformations, and technology innovations
• Develop and maintain project infrastructure, including project charters, plans, schedules, governance models, resource registers, budgets, RAID logs, and communication plans
• Gather and incorporate stakeholder feedback efficiently throughout the project lifecycle
• Support resourcing allocation in program plans and assist with program gating processes
• Organize and facilitate project-related activities such as kick-offs, meetings, workshops, decision-making processes, communications, and stage gate reviews
• Assist in developing risk management plans, actively identifying, analyzing, and monitoring risks and issues, and implementing mitigation strategies
• Support project change management and communication activities
• Engage with project stakeholders, including sponsors, owners, managers, and external partners, ensuring alignment with organizational strategic goals
• Coordinate with IT, Finance and other functions to ensure smooth project delivery
• Develop improvement projects and ideas for processes. Engage cross-functionally to collect business requirements and convert into executable plans of action and processes
• Perform end-to-end process mapping to identify standardization and risk mitigation opportunities
• Enhance the PMO function by developing project resources, tools, templates, systems, and governance to deliver predictable, sustainable projects
• Manage a portfolio of projects through monitoring, governance and metrics to measure success
• Support the PMO's project methodology by mentoring colleagues on project approaches, tools, and resources to enhance organizational project management skills and outcomes
• Identify opportunities to contribute to other projects or programs to increase efficiency
• Implement project management best practices globally within the Compliance department
• Incorporate end-user feedback to refine project scope throughout the lifecycle and effectively communicate changes to stakeholders

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree
• 6+ years of work experience
• 2+ years of experience working in a highly regulated industry such as MedTech, FinTech, Pharmaceuticals
• Travel Percentage: 20%
• 2+Experience in project management
• PMP/CAPM certification
• Experience in process mapping or Lean Six Sigma certification