Work Flexibility: Hybrid
Position Summary:
As Senior Program Manager, Sterilization Transformation, you will lead the global execution of sterilization process transfers (PTs), ensuring seamless transitions across sites while maintaining compliance, quality, and supply continuity. You’ll be responsible for planning and managing end-to-end transfer activities, from validation and regulatory alignment to equipment readiness, documentation, and risk mitigation. This role requires a strong technical leader who can navigate complex cross-functional landscapes, drive alignment between manufacturing, quality, regulatory, and supply chain teams, and deliver scalable solutions that support manufacturing resilience and growth. You’ll play a critical role in harmonizing sterilization processes globally, ensuring that each transfer is executed with precision, transparency, and strategic foresight, enabling future-ready capabilities across our network.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities:
- Lead the Sterilization Transformation PMO, overseeing global program execution with a focus on process transfer (PT) delivery, timeline adherence, and milestone achievement.
- Drive end-to-end PT execution, ensuring alignment with validation protocols, regulatory requirements, and operational readiness across receiving and sending sites.
- Apply Lean Business Management principles to optimize transfer workflows, reduce inefficiencies, and embed continuous improvement into transformation activities.
- Own and evolve the risk-to-revenue framework, proactively identifying and mitigating risks associated with process transfers and ensuring visibility at the executive level.
- Govern transformation program data, including PT validation status, regulatory milestones, and audit readiness, ensuring accuracy and transparency.
- Collaborate with Finance to manage CapEx investments tied to PTs, track depreciation schedules, and assess facility go-live impacts.
- Support integration of ERP, QMS, and MES systems to enable harmonized process execution and data flow across sterilization sites.
- Lead capacity planning and supply chain coordination to ensure uninterrupted sterilization services during PT transitions.
- Facilitate cross-functional governance forums with Quality, Regulatory, Manufacturing, and Supply Chain to align on PT strategy and execution.
- Deliver executive-level dashboards and reporting that highlight PT progress, risks, and strategic impact.
- Champion continuous improvement in PMO tools, processes, and reporting standards to support scalable and repeatable PT execution.
Education & Special Trainings:
- Bachelor’s degree (Microbiology, Supply Chain Mgt, Business, Finance, or related field), MBA or Masters in related field preferred).
- 10+ years of experience as a successful MFG/Quality/Business professional, preferably in the Medical Device sector.
- Demonstrated experience with strategic planning and implementing programs to ensure strong governance, resource alignment to key priorities, and performance monitoring.
- Demonstrated experience leading process standardization and continuous improvement in complex, matrix organization. Willingness to enforce standardized processes and refine them when provided feedback.
- Experience implementing transformational changes and processes in a complex organization · PMP or PgMP or equivalent preferred.
Technical Experience:
- Ability to create actionable, short-term, mid-term, and long-term strategies based on fact base and stake holder input.
- Knowledgeable about Sterilization, Regulations and E2E supply chain.
- Viewed as source of truth for reporting, processes, and other questions by Stryker for Sterilization related questions.
- Project management experience required; certification preferred.
Travel Percentage: 30%