Associate Manager, Upstream Marketing (hybrid)

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Work flexibility: Remote Req ID: R568010 Employee type: Full Time Job category: Sales and Marketing Travel: 40% Relocation: No

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Job description

Stryker’s Upper Extremities division is focused on making better outcomes easier for our Shoulder Arthroplasty customers.  Our business unit is dedicated to improving patient outcomes, simplifying complex procedures, and embracing innovation with new industry-leading technologies. This role will lead a team of portfolio marketers as well as maintain product responsibilities focused on our expanding Shoulder Arthroplasty implant portfolio. 

What you will do

  • Lead upstream marketing strategy by defining product vision, market strategy, portfolio roadmaps, and long-term growth plans aligned with business objectives.

  • Drive customer and market insights through segmentation, voice of customer, competitive intelligence, and unmet needs analysis to influence product development and innovation.

  • Develop compelling value propositions and product positioning while partnering cross-functionally to ensure customer needs are translated into successful product strategies.

  • Guide portfolio and lifecycle management by leading pricing strategy, evidence generation, product lifecycle planning, and strategic investment decisions.

  • Partner across R&D, Clinical, Regulatory, Sales, and Finance to develop business cases, launch strategies, and commercialization plans that accelerate growth.

  • Leverage data and financial insights to build forecasts, business cases, budgets, KPIs, and performance metrics that support strategic decision-making.

  • Build relationships with key opinion leaders (KOLs) and industry stakeholders to shape product strategy, clinical evidence generation, and market adoption.

  • Lead and develop a high-performing marketing team by coaching talent, fostering innovation, driving strategic thinking, and promoting a culture of collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement.

What you need

Required:

  • Bachelor's Degree

  • Minimum 6 years of professional experience

Preferred:

  • MBA

  • Minimum 3 years medical device or marketing/sales experience

  • Experience with developing software on the Hololens Mixed Reality Technology


Posted Date: 07/09/2026
This role will be posted for a minimum of 3 days.


United States of America Pay Ranges:

  • US5: $107,700 - $179,600 USD Annual

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. Click here to learn more about: US Stryker employee benefits

Stryker offers 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. 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.

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