Senior Manager, Operations

Posted:
9/9/2024, 10:46:03 AM

Location(s):
Michigan, United States ⋅ Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States

Experience Level(s):
Expert or higher ⋅ Senior

Field(s):
Operations & Logistics

Work Flexibility: Onsite

Who we want-

  • Goal-oriented orchestrators. People who can effectively coordinate and focus the work of skilled employees toward an important goal, prioritizing to the right activities that lead to success.
  • Metrics-oriented managers. People who are always tracking important business metrics to ensure projects meet expectations and budget.
  • Effective communicators. People who can interpret information clearly and accurately to concisely communicate results and recommendations to stakeholders, senior management, and their teams.

What you will do-

  • Use data and other inputs, identify, prioritize, and deliver on business and customer needs
  • Be accountable to meeting and/or exceeding business objectives including but not limited to safety, quality, delivery, customer experience, people development and cost. For direct team as well as the greater operations business
  • Anticipate and predict business results-based data, planning and demand forecasts
  • Identify, prioritize and lead cost reduction initiatives to deliver on financial projections
  • Execute and coach others on entire Managing Daily Improvement (MDI) process
  • Attend daily MDI meetings and communicate business results /metrics clearly at all levels of the operations business
  • Own business metrics and reporting through all levels of MDI in collaboration with Sr. Operations Director
  • Be responsible for the recruitment and hiring of talent, to include supporting hiring of production team leaders
  • Evaluate employee performance through various means, such as talent reviews and common annual reviews, and enforcing company policies through appropriate disciplinary measures, with guidance. Assist in providing performance feedback on Production Team Leaders
  • Be responsible for forecasting and predicting recruitment needs of temporary and permanent talent to the team for conversion
  • Identify, prioritize, and execute continuous improvement projects through teamwork, empowerment, consultative problem solving, and operating with honesty and integrity while providing a highly responsive and unsurpassed level of customer service

What you need-

  • Bachelor’s degree - required
  • 10+ years of working experience - required
  • Demonstrated leadership characters and capabilities - required
  • Excellent organization, planning, communication, project management and performance attainment in a manufacturing or logistics environment - required
  • 5+ years of proven leadership experience - highly preferred
  • Previous manufacturing experience - highly preferred

Travel Percentage: 10%

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.

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