**What you will do** This Associate Manager, Technical Training manages the Technical Training team members in an assigned region/area/function to ensure the successful alignment and execution of Technical Training strategies, initiatives, and processes. Responsible for aspects of Technical Training including the design, coordination, and deployment of role-based training. **Additional responsibilities:** + Provide leadership and supervision to team members, oversee progress, coach as needed, and ensure adequate coverage for all team functions. + Ensure training processes comply with regulatory standards and quality requirements; develop systems to drive training benchmarks and monitor effectiveness. + Continually assess training strategies, programs, and metrics, implementing improvements and systemic solutions as appropriate. + Assist with training tasks in the Change Control process to ensure accurate role-based training and support or own actions for NC/CAPAs related to training outcomes or processes. + Ensure all US & Canada sites maintain compliance with Quality Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), monitor progress, and take timely action to address adverse trends and deviations. + Participate in or lead Communities of Practice (COPs), assist in establishing training standards, and develop procedures that ensure effective training delivery. + Partner with leadership to assess training needs, determine priorities, and translate them into actionable training requirements for the team. + Collect and present training performance metrics to leadership during periodic meetings and forums such as the Quality Systems Management Review. + Represent Technical Training during audits and inspections, support training record and qualification evidence requests, and monitor SLMS data changes that may impact training. + Collaborate with the Global SLMS Shared Services Team on platform upgrades and enhancements, ensure SLA compliance, identify process improvements, and empower stakeholders to drive and sustain training success. **What you need** Required qualifications + Bachelor’s degree or 6+ years of equivalent work experience in addition to the below requirements + 6+ years of work experience + Knowledge of training needs analysis, instructional/program design, development and evaluation, adult learning concepts and learning methodologies + Experience supporting technical training for the Global Quality Operations (GQO) organization Preferred qualifications + Master’s Degree preferred + 4+ years of technical training experience in medical device, pharmaceutical, or other regulated industry with knowledge of manufacturing standards and practices, including quality and compliance issues + Demonstrated experience working with Learning Management Systems (LMS), document management, and change control processes + Demonstrated expertise in adult learning theory, instructional design, and technical training content development, including eLearning formats + Preferred candidate will sit near a Stryker location $87,600-143,600 salary plus bonus eligible + benefits. Actual minimum and maximum may vary based on location. Individual pay is based on skills, experience, and other relevant factors. 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.