Senior Manager, Workplace Operations

New South Wales, St Leonards 8 Herbert St · Hybrid

About this role

Work Flexibility: Hybrid

At Stryker, we’re driven to make healthcare better. Our workplaces play a critical role in enabling our people to do their best work—and we’re now looking for an experienced Senior Manager, Workplace Operations to lead and evolve our workplace portfolio across Australia and New Zealand.
The role
Reporting to the Director, Workplace Operations (APAC), you will lead the day-to-day management of Stryker’s workplaces across the region. You’ll be the key point of contact for regional leaders, ensuring our facilities are safe, compliant, fit-for-purpose and aligned to business growth.
This is a senior, hands-on leadership role combining facilities management, stakeholder partnership, vendor governance, and strategic planning, with a clear focus on employee experience, operational excellence and scalability.
What you’ll do
  • Lead, coach and develop a regional Workplace Operations team covering facilities, infrastructure, maintenance, space utilisation, workplace services and FM project delivery
  • Partner with regional leaders to understand business needs and translate these into effective workplace, space and service strategies
  • Lead and govern third-party service providers across facilities, building services, moves, hospitality, cleaning, security and related services
  • Represent the business on regional RE&F projects including renovations, expansions and consolidations, including move planning and occupancy tracking
  • Own regional operating and capital budgets, including forecasting, variance reporting and quarterly reviews
  • Ensure safe, compliant and sustainable workplace operations in line with company standards, RE&F strategy and local regulations
  • Identify and deliver opportunities to improve space utilisation, service delivery, employee experience and cost efficiency
  • Collaborate closely with HR, IT, Security, Finance, Legal, EHS and global RE&F partners to deliver integrated solutions
What you’ll bring
Required
  • 10+ years’ progressive experience in Workplace or Facilities Operations within a complex or regulated environment, with accountability for service delivery, vendors and budgets
  • Experience leading geographically dispersed, cross-functional teams and operating effectively with senior stakeholders
  • Demonstrated commercial acumen, including ownership of budgets and the ability to build business cases and drive change
  • Experience delivering complex workplace or operational initiatives with strong communication, planning and organisational skills
Preferred
  • Bachelor’s degree in Facilities Management, Engineering, Real Estate or a related discipline (or equivalent experience)
  • Professional certifications such as IFMA, CoreNet, BOMA or LEED

Travel Percentage: 30%

Company at a glance

Stryker is a global leader in medical technologies and, together with our customers, we are driven to make healthcare better. We offer innovative products and services in MedSurg, Neurotechnology and Orthopaedics that help improve patient and healthcare outcomes. Alongside its customers around the world, Stryker impacts more than 150 million patients annually. More information is available at stryker.com and careers.stryker.com.

Facts

● 2025 Sales: $25.1 billion
● Industry: Medical Instruments & Supplies
● Employees: 56,000 worldwide
● 44+ Manufacturing and R&D Locations Worldwide
● $1.6 billion spent on research and development in 2025
● ~14,600 patents owned globally in 2025
● Products sold in ~61 countries
● Fortune 500 Company
● 9 consecutive years as one a World's Best Workplace

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Founded2004
Team Size10,001+ employees
WorkspaceHybrid
IndustryMedical Equipment Manufacturing
Location
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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