Sr. Project Manager, R&D

About the role

It's Time to Join Stryker! Are you a project leader who thrives in complex, fast-moving environments where the path forward is not always predefined? As a Senior Project Manager, R&D, you will lead highly visible, cross-functional projects supporting digital health, connected devices, and software delivery. This is an opportunity to do more than manage an established process. You will help shape how work gets done within a growing team, identify opportunities to improve execution, and create the structure, visibility, and alignment needed to move complex programs forward. You will partner across engineering, product, marketing, customer-facing teams, and other functions to manage multiple interconnected workstreams, dependencies, risks, and priorities. The right candidate combines strong project management fundamentals with the judgment, technical curiosity, and influence needed to lead teams without direct authority.

Responsibilities

• Lead multiple complex, cross-functional R&D projects and digital product workstreams from planning through execution, balancing new product development, sustaining work, integrations, and other strategic business initiatives.
• Own project scope, schedules, milestones, and dependencies, including development of integrated plans that align digital and connected-device teams.
• Manage several concurrent workstreams and priorities, ensuring resources are focused at the right time and cross-functional dependencies are visible and actively managed.
• Identify project risks early, evaluate business impact and interdependencies, and use sound judgment to determine appropriate mitigation and escalation.
• Drive clarity and accountability in ambiguous situations, helping teams make decisions, resolve obstacles, and maintain momentum against key milestones.
• Partner closely with engineering and technical teams, developing enough understanding of the work to anticipate dependencies, ask meaningful questions, and support effective planning and execution.
• Influence stakeholders across functions and levels without direct authority, building alignment while balancing competing priorities and business needs.
• Identify opportunities to improve project management processes, workflows, and operating practices, and help build scalable approaches that make execution easier for the teams that follow.
• Facilitate project planning, scoping, workshops, and stakeholder discussions, ensuring teams understand priorities, responsibilities, decisions, and next steps.
• Communicate project status, risks, dependencies, tradeoffs, and decisions clearly to project teams and senior leadership.
• Support resource and budget planning, working with functional leaders to ensure the appropriate capabilities and capacity are aligned to project needs.
• Apply both traditional and, where appropriate, Agile project management practices to support a fast-paced digital product environment.
• Build strong working relationships across the organization while creating an environment where team members are comfortable raising concerns, challenging assumptions, and identifying better ways of working.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent is required.
• 6+ years of professional experience, including demonstrated project management experience leading complex projects.

Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrated ability to develop and manage project scope, schedules, milestones, dependencies, and risk.