Manager, Continuous Improvement & PMO

Position Summary

The Manager, Continuous Improvement & PMO leads the Mako Robotics Continuous Improvement program and Project Management Office (PMO). This role drives Lean transformation, operational excellence, and portfolio governance across manufacturing operations while facilitating long-range operational strategy and execution. The position is responsible for delivering measurable business results through cost savings, capacity expansion, productivity improvement, and strategic project portfolio management.

What You'll Do

• Develop and execute the site's Continuous Improvement and PMO strategy, aligning initiatives to both annual objectives and 3-5 year operational growth plans.

• Drive Lean manufacturing practices, including Daily Management, Leader Standard Work, Gemba, Kaizen, Value Stream Mapping, and structured problem solving.

• Build a culture of operational excellence focused on safety, quality, delivery, productivity, capacity, and cost performance.

• Lead and develop a Continuous Improvement and PMO team, including direct leadership of PMO resources and capability development across the organization.

• Partner cross-functionally with Manufacturing, Engineering, Quality, Supply Chain, Finance, and Operations teams to identify and implement strategic improvements.

• Own a portfolio of initiatives focused on cost savings, operational efficiency, capacity expansion, and business transformation.

• Facilitate project intake, business case development, prioritization, resource planning, governance reviews, and benefits realization.

• Lead recurring PMO governance reviews to assess portfolio performance, remove execution barriers, track cost savings commitments, and ensure projects deliver expected results.

• Partner with Finance to validate business cases, monitor projected versus realized savings, and drive accountability for operational and financial outcomes.

• Provide leadership with clear visibility into portfolio health, project risks, resource constraints, business impact, and strategic trade-off decisions.

• Lead high-impact cross-functional programs and influence decision-making across all organizational levels, including constructively challenging assumptions and recommending alternative approaches when needed.

• Establish project management standards, governance processes, and best practices while ensuring compliance with applicable quality, financial, EHS, and regulatory requirements.

Leadership & Business Expectations

• Balances near-term improvement needs with long-term cost, capacity, and strategic portfolio commitments.

• Creates clear project ownership, decision rights, resource priorities, and escalation paths across the portfolio.

• Develops Lean, structured problem-solving, project-management, and portfolio-management capability across the Mako organization.

• Communicates risks, tradeoffs, investment needs, progress, and results clearly to site and senior leadership.

• Builds an inclusive, engaged, high-accountability team culture focused on safety, quality, customers, people development, and measurable business outcomes.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Business, Operations, Supply Chain, or a related discipline.

• At least 8 years of relevant manufacturing, continuous improvement, project management, or operations experience, including at least 3 years leading CI initiatives, projects, programs, or technical professionals.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree, Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, PMP certification, or equivalent professional qualification.

• Experience leading Continuous Improvement and PMO functions in medical device or other highly regulated manufacturing environments.

• Demonstrated success managing project portfolios tied to cost savings, productivity improvements, capacity expansion, and operational transformation.

• Experience leading portfolio governance reviews, financial benefit tracking, benefits realization, and executive-level reporting.

• Proven ability to influence leaders, challenge conventional thinking, facilitate difficult conversations, and drive accountability across cross-functional teams.

• Strong business and financial acumen with experience connecting operational improvements to measurable P&L impact.

United States of America Pay Ranges:

• USN : $118,000 - $196,700 USD Annual

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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.