Senior Manager, Quality - NPI

Stryker is seeking a Senior Manager, Quality – NPI to lead a high-performing team at the forefront of innovation in medical device manufacturing. While this role offers remote flexibility, we strongly prefer candidates located near one of our key office hubs: Salt Lake City, UT or Irvine, CA.

As Senior Manager, Quality – NPI, you’ll lead a high-performing team driving product transfers that meet the highest standards of quality, safety, and compliance. In this hands-on leadership role, you’ll play a pivotal part in our NPI Quality team—mentoring engineers, guiding cross-functional collaboration, and ensuring every product transfer meets the highest standards of quality, safety, and regulatory compliance. Your work will directly shape the future of life-changing medical technologies

What You Will Do

• Drive execution of NPI strategy to develop scalable, high-yield processes that meet launch timelines and quality targets.

• Optimize inspection strategies through technology, automation, and supplier certification to reduce inspection cost per unit.

• Coach and develop a team of quality engineers to ensure product transfers meet or exceed established performance metrics.

• Ensure compliance by implementing robust production and process controls throughout the manufacturing lifecycle.

• Collaborate globally with QA leaders to harmonize best practices and share lessons learned across regions.

• Lead supplier onboarding by validating process capability and implementing pFMEA, PPAP, and certification requirements.

• Drive continuous improvement in metrology, process validation, and inspection methods to enhance efficiency and accuracy.

• Monitor and improve product quality indicators such as supplier DPM, right-first-time rates, and manufacturing complaints per million units.

What You Need

Required

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or Science discipline (or equivalent).

• Minimum 10 years of experience in a regulated manufacturing environment (medical device, pharmaceutical, biomedical, or automotive).

• Minimum 6 years of experience leading and developing high-performing teams

• Expert knowledge of regulatory requirements and standards, including FDA inspections/audits

• Proficiency in quality tools such as SPC, FMEA, Root Cause Analysis, and Six Sigma methodologies

• Up to 30% domestic and international travel

Preferred

• MBA or advanced degree in Business Management

• Experience across multiple sites or roles within quality organizations

• Familiarity with metrology and interpretation of complex engineering drawings

$135,600 - $293,700 salary plus bonus eligible + benefits. Individual pay is based on skills, experience, and other relevant factors.

Posted: 2/17/2026

Posted Date: 02/17/2026
This role will be posted for a minimum of 3 days.

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.