Are you interested in working for a global company where you can work across functions and on a wide-variety of projects?

As a member of Stryker's RA / QA team, that is exactly what you will do! Here, we provide our Regulatory Affairs team the opportunity to learn new things, as well as endless growth opportunities.

If you are interested in working at one of the World’s Best Workplaces, apply now!

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Who we Want :

Leader. Provide overall management and leadership to team of HR professionals.

Problem Solver. Analyzes root causes of work environment issues; manages interventions and solutions in collaboration and cooperation with key stakeholders.

Demonstrated conflict resolution skills.

Consultant. Strong facilitation, consulting, relationship-building, influence, negotiation skills, and project management skills.

Analytically driven and oriented. Demonstrated business and analytical ability with a proven ability to build relationships and influence different groups.

What you will do :

The Continuous Improvement Associate manager has a critical role to set the strategy for continuous improvement and build the roadmap for its implementation within the Costa Rican / European Finance Shared Service Centre.

Provide support to finance areas to growing its continuous improvement capability by deploying strategies to instill the CI mindset across different professional levels (analysts, supervisors, managers and senior managers)

Education & desire trainings :

Minimum of a B.S. in Industrial Engineering or similar disciplines.

Fluent spoken and written English. Any other language is a plus

Knowledgeable in Minitab, R and other statistical software

Green Belt / Black Belt certified

Experience in improvements in Finance

Experience in R2R

PMP / Agile Certified is a plus

Data Analytics is a plus

Knowledge in Power Bi

Qualifications & experience :

Over 5 years in the field of continuous improvement driving projects through Lean Six Sigma methodologies.

Capable to manage stakeholders at different levels of the organization, identify customer requirements (CTQ) in projects, management communication.

Excellent negotiation skills to interact with stakeholders.

Experience deploying Process Excellence models (Shingo or similar) in Service Center environments; Assist with change strategy development and the implementation into the organization.

Provided training in Continuous Improvement methodologies and tools.

Experience in the A3 thinking

Experience in leading improvement workshops (Kaizen Events) from opportunity, analysis (FMEA, Value stream mapping), root cause analysis, brainstorming for solution and implementation.

Familiar with deployment on RPA OR Automation strategies and its relationship to a CI framework. Support on change management.

Experience creating process flow diagrams and technical specifications for RPA projects.