Senior Project Manager Mergers & Acquisitions – Hybrid

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What You Will Do

As our Senior Project Managers you will manage and lead enterprise-wide, cross-functional strategic initiatives and are typically assigned to large-scale, high-impact Mergers and Acquisition projects with moderate to high risk and complexity. You will direct the daily activities of team members on multiple projects to ensure they provide high-quality and cost-effective services. You will also design and develop new approaches to project management.

Partner with Mergers & Acquisitions Integration Lead(s) on cross‑functional, high‑impact, high‑profile programs/projects to deliver IT portion of integrations leading to revenue and synergy achievement success.

Lead assigned projects ensuring delivery on-time, within scope and within budget

Define and track project milestones while developing, maintaining, and reporting on an overall integrated delivery plan with resource capacity and actuals analysis

Liaise with resource managers to ensure resources are available to support the timelines within the project schedule

Utilize risk management strategies to actively manage project risks that may impact project cost, quality, scope or schedule

Create and maintain comprehensive project documentation

Review and approve forecasts associated with your project

Create business case financial models

Forecast, monitor and report on project financials, and maintain financials in project management tools

Manage change requests by assessing impact to scope, schedule and cost; and communicate with key stakeholders

Liaise with the supplier management groups as needed on supplier engagement, quality of services, experience and cost

Partner with the project team to ensure compliance with regulations, policies, standards, procedures, and associated documentation including but not limited to computer systems validation, SOX, and PM standards

Continually update relevant business stakeholders of project status and periodically publish project status reports

Represent the project in various project governance and inter-departmental forums

Ensure all projects meet success parameters and ROI targets stated in business case

Evaluate trade-offs between project size and complexity, cost, urgency, risk, and stakeholder value

Partner with business sponsors to define success metrics and criteria and deliver project to meet those metrics and criteria

Ensure all projects adhere to project methodology compliance standards set by the company

Assist, share learning, and mentor others within the PMO regarding standards, organizational understanding, and relationship building to promote the successful delivery of projects

What You Will Need

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent required

MBA preferred

6 years of work experience required

Mergers & Acquisitions project management experience strongly preferred

PMP certification desired

Agile/Scrum related experience a plus

Proven record of planning and delivering complex projects

Experience managing remote/global project teams desired

Experience and proficiency in Microsoft Project preferred

Demonstrated experience in full project management lifecycle for software/maintenance/ development/ implementation projects and IT methodologies (ITIL)

Experience with projects in multiple technologies and functions; demonstrated experience managing customer relationships

Health benefits include: Medical and prescription drug insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, critical illness insurance, accident insurance, hospital indemnity insurance, personalized healthcare support, wellbeing program and tobacco cessation program. Financial benefits include: Health Savings Account (HSA), Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs), 401(k) plan, Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), basic life and AD&D insurance, and short-term disability insurance. Stryker offers innovative products and services in MedSurg, Neurotechnology, Orthopaedics and Spine that help improve patient and healthcare outcomes. Alongside its customers around the world, Stryker impacts more than 150 million patients annually. Depending on customer requirements employees and new hires in sales and field roles that require access to customer accounts as a function of the job may be required to obtain various vaccinations as an essential function of their role.

Stryker Corporation is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status. Stryker is an EO employer – M/F/Veteran/Disability.