**Permanent hybrid role based in Stryker, Belfast** **What you will do:** **Technical / Managerial Responsibilities** • Execute a robust talent offense, including management of a talent bench, for one or more teams by attracting, developing, retaining, and engaging top talent while driving personal/professional growth of individuals, the team and delivering high quality results with passion, energy and drive. • Lead and mentor others in driving positive outcomes to abstract technical, business, and personnel problems based the application of problem-solving and process improvement methodologies. • Make independent decisions for project, program, or portfolio level issues. • Leverage strong listening skills and written / verbal communication to influence and convey complex business, regulatory compliance, and/or technical ideas to customers, employees, peers, external partners, and senior leaders. • Lead a culture of diversity, inclusion, and belonging at a team level in hiring and staff development. • Lead high complexity projects and initiatives within the business unit, with responsibility for planning, budgeting, meeting project goals and adequately staffing with talent. • Lead and mentor others in complex cooperative efforts across cross-functional teams and business units, influencing multiple technical areas of expertise and building key relationships, to drive innovation and ensure achievement of business goals. • Distill department Objectives, Goals, Strategy and Mission into performance objectives for direct reports. **Business Responsibilities:** • Drive financial accountability across direct team and roll-up at a project level. Lead cost center budget creation, projections, and tracking activities, and contribute to higher-level R&D budget at business unit level, projections, and tracking activities. • Mentor, teach, and develop best practices for Voice of Customer and customer centric design activities. May lead Voice of Customer activities. • Assess emerging opportunities and technologies that can better meet clinical needs and partner with customers, internal and external key opinion leaders (KOLs) to develop technical strategies that meet clinical/business needs. • Collaborate and mentor on financial / business modeling and lead strategy and execution for one or more product segments / business function. **Med Device Compliance:** • Lead multiple programs of direct and indirect oversight to demonstrate compliance with applicable regulatory requirements. • Provide overall direction to direct reports/department as related to design controls for new and existing processes/products. • Review and approve (or delegate) program / project specific technical documentation and deliverables across multiple programs of direct and indirect oversight. **Minimum Qualifications (Required):** • Bachelor of Science degree or higher in Engineering or applicable technical field. • 10+ years applicable experience, with 4+ years direct people management experience preferred. **Preferred Qualifications (Strongly desired):** **Technical Skills:** • In-depth understanding of, experience in, and ability to mentor in one or more technical / functional disciplines. **Leadership Experience:** • Talented performance coach who is skilled at providing actionable feedback to team members, setting clear performance objectives and managing team member performance. • Advanced understanding of the healthcare market and competitors, conversant in clinical issues of relevance to Stryker. • Experience executing a talent and performance management strategy. • Demonstrated ability to communicate complex plans and technical information to team members within a division. • Proven ability to deliver programs or other business goals on time, on quality and within budget. Stryker is a global leader in medical technologies and, together with its customers, is driven to make healthcare better. The company 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. 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.