Associate Project Manager - Orlando/Tampa, FL

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The Associate Project manager contribute and assist with the achievement of a project's objectives as an active member of the project team. You will lead smaller, less complex projects with minimal supervision and larger, more complex projects with additional supervisor. This position possesses strong organizational skills, excellent communication abilities, and a proactive approach to problem-solving. Previous experience coordinating project tasks, managing timelines and collaborating with cross functional teams. Additionally, familiarity with project management methodologies and tools.

What You Will Do

• Contribute to the development of the project charter and/or develop sub-project charter and management plan. Recommend tradeoffs within project.
• Assist in defining and managing project scope; review with manager for approval. Outline major workstreams.
• Complete assigned tasks according to established timeline. Assist in the development of a detailed project Gantt chart. Manage a sub-project timeline.
• Collaborate with supervisor and/or project PM to establish sub-project budget. Monitor and maintain costs within budget.
• Partner with sub-project teams to establish project Quality Plans. Monitor and maintain plans.
• Create a risk register and management plan for the sub-project. Identify, analyze and understand project risks and develop sub-project risk response plan.
• Participate in the development of a Procurement Management Plan.
• Develop a sub-project team list with cross-functional staffing requirements. Define the role, responsibility and deliverables for each team member. Work with project or program manager to provide input to functional performance reviews.
• Create a Stakeholder register for the sub-project and assist in the preparation of a Stakeholder management plan.
• Support the development of a project communications management plan or develop a sub-project communications plan.
• Additional role-specific technical areas of responsibilities may be added as deemed necessary by the local hiring manager.
• Gains stakeholder trust, and maintains open communication channels with stakeholders, including development teams and sponsors
• Stays calm under pressure timelines and seeks to add additional responsibility where appropriate to have an impact outside of core role
• Self-motivated: enjoys tackling goals, growing and developing, and is accountable for goals being met
• Consistently drives results
• Effective communicator and presenter: understands how to engage diverse audiences, adjust as appropriate and checks for understanding along the way
• Understand the importance of networking and utilizing that network to improve individual job performance
• Actively seeks to understand how goals fit into broader organizational goals
• Works to build customer centric solutions that are flexible as needs change, and incorporates customer feedback quickly
• Can consolidate large amounts of data, pinpoint valuable information free of personal bias to make timely and durable decisions
• Understands when to take risk and when to escalate, evaluating issues based on parts, patterns and relationships.
• Is able to pressure test ideas and share conclusions with a broader audience in a concise manner.
• Exercises good judgment regarding when and how to escalate issues
• Growth mindset – learns from previous mistakes and picks up new skills quickly.
• Additional role-specific knowledge and capabilities may be added as deemed necessary by the local hiring manager.
  
  

Minimum Qualifications (Required)

• 2 years of related work experience
  
  

Preferred Qualifications (Strongly Desired)

• Bachelor’s degree
• Previous experience in construction, engineering, or healthcare
• CAPM or equivalent preferred
  
  

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.

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