Sr. Quality Management System Specialist

The Senior Quality Management System Specialist will help design, maintain, and continuously improve a quality management system that supports regulatory approval and business growth across global markets. You’ll collaborate across functions to ensure quality processes are not only compliant, but practical, efficient, and future‑ready. Activities include Quality System documentation, Internal Quality Agreements, Supplier Quality Agreements, and general QMS activities related to Mergers and Acquisitions. This role is Hybrid in Portage, Michigan .

 

  What You Will Do

• Support and maintain a compliant Quality Management System aligned with global medical device regulations to enable product certification and regulatory clearances.
• Develop and update quality system processes, procedures, and documentation to reflect business needs and regulatory expectations.
• Assess and quantify quality system requirements to optimize structure, integration, and scalability.
• Identify and implement continuous improvement opportunities that increase efficiency and effectiveness of quality processes.
• Support management review, quality planning forums, and related governance activities with data-driven inputs.
• Partner with stakeholders to ensure quality processes reflect actual operational activities, including support for new product development.
• Prepare for and support internal, external, and third‑party quality system audits, including responses and follow‑up actions.
• Contribute to quality system training content and delivery to ensure effective adoption across the organization.

What You Will Need

• Bachelor’s degree in science, engineering, business, or a related discipline.
• 3+ years of experience working in a regulated industry environment.

 

Preferred

• Knowledge of U.S. and international medical device regulatory requirements.
• Experience supporting quality systems such as audits, management review, quality planning, and corrective action processes.
• Experience supporting regulated information systems or quality systems change control.
• Exposure to good manufacturing and distribution practices within a quality environment.

United States of America Pay Ranges:

• USN : $72,500 - $120,900 USD Annual

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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.