Senior Manager, Strategic Initiatives Cordis

Cordis is seeking a Senior Manager, Strategic Initiatives to join its Cordis Spark Program, a rotational leadership development initiative designed to accelerate future leaders through exposure to enterprise-level projects.

In this role, the Senior Manager leads complex strategic initiatives and major cross-functional work streams tied to Cordis business priorities. This role is designed for experienced professionals who can translate ambiguous priorities into structured plans, influence senior stakeholders, drive execution, and coach junior teammates or contributors.

The Spark Program is Cordis’ rotational leadership development program designed to build future enterprise, functional, and regional leaders through high-impact assignments, executive exposure, structured rotations, and deliberate post-program placement into business-critical roles. Spark participants rotate through 2-3 assignments over an expected 2-3 year period. Each rotation is intended to be a chartered assignment with defined business priorities, role expectations, leadership sponsorship, and measurable business outcomes.

Each assignment includes a rotation sponsor responsible for day-to-day business direction, with program-level support from Spark leadership to provide development continuity, mentorship, and connectivity across the broader program.

Spark teammates are expected to deliver meaningful business impact while building the leadership capabilities, functional breadth, and enterprise perspective required for future roles rk assignments are expected to move from problem definition and recommendation development through execution planning, stakeholder alignment, and value realization. At the completion of the program, Spark participants are expected to transition into permanent functional, regional, or enterprise roles aligned to business need and individual trajectory.