Manager, Upstream Marketing

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Portage, MI, 49002, US
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Work flexiblity: Hybrid Req ID: R533500 Employee type: Full Time Job category: Sales and Marketing Travel: 50% Relocation: Yes

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Job description

Who we want:
• Talent developers. Growth-oriented managers who recruit and hire top-performing talent and prioritize the development of their team members.
• Goal-oriented orchestrators. People who can effectively coordinate and focus the work of skilled employees toward an important goal, prioritizing to the right activities that lead to success.
• Managers who drive performance. People who implement process improvements and leverage the talent of their team to consistently increase performance and productivity.
• Network builders. Managers who build connections with other teams and divisions and coordinate cross-functional collaboration.

What you will do:
• Advise on the organization's major competitors
• Anticipate and understand the different types of competition that will be faced in the future
• Monitor market activity, penetration and competitive wins or losses
• Identify new customer groups and tailor marketing strategies to meet both current and prospective customer needs
• Build relationships with key opinion leaders and establish relationships with new thought leaders
• Analyze unmet needs to identify product and service opportunities. Able to summarize qualitative and quantitative studies, drawing actionable conclusions for the business.
• Translate customer input into unmet needs. Evaluate key assumptions and variables that factor into the conclusions of market research.
• Identify market trends and proactively adjusts strategy based on healthcare environment
• Raise coworkers' awareness of industry standards, practices and guidelines
• Manage others to leads the new product development process (NPDP) from start to finish, engaging key internal stakeholders along the way
• Collaborate cross-departmentally to participate in the NPDP process
• Lead the execution strategy for the defined portfolio
• Communicate long-term portfolio strategy to key stakeholders to gain organizational alignment
• Partner with R&D to anticipate future needs and the strategic assets needed to compete
• Partner with Clinical Affairs to generate clinical trials, research grants, and cost-benefit analysis papers to support clinical claims strategy


Minimum Qualifications (Required):

  • Bachelor’s degree required
  • 8+ years of work experience required
  • Medical device or marketing experience


Preferred Qualifications (Strongly desired):

  • MBA preferred
  • 2+ years of people management experience preferred
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. Apply Now