Product Manager - Acute Care (Hybrid)

Stryker Corporation; Portage (MI); Hybrid; USD 89,000 - 149,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Job summary

Stryker Corporation is seeking a Product Manager - Acute Care in the United States. You will drive brand strategies, analyze markets, and manage product features, launches, and portfolio messaging. The role requires collaboration with sales, engineering, and MarComm to deliver strategic plans and clinical value.

The position offers hybrid work flexibility, travel up to 40%, and a focus on wound care and mobility feature sets. A strong background in clinical or medical devices is preferred.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• MBA preferred in ICU experience is a plus.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Excel, Word & PowerPoint).
• Ability to manage multiple projects and meet timelines.
• Excellent presentation and interpersonal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Understand competitors and obtain competitive information.
• Explain product features to customers per their needs.
• Maintain customer engagement and understand customer needs.
• Develop strategy documents: strategic plan, marketing plan, product launch plans.
• Elevate sales education related to wound care and mattress features.
• Articulate clinical relevance of current product features (CLRT).
• Develop messaging for early mobility and portfolio coordination.
• Understand market dynamics and customer value perceptions.
• Create marketing strategies to strengthen customer-product relationships.
• Propose objectives for clinical evidence and evaluate studies.
• Support engineering sustainment projects.

Skills

Multitasking

Communication

Analytical thinking

MS Office

Presentation skills

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree

MBA preferred

Tools

Excel

Word

PowerPoint

Job description

Work Flexibility: Hybrid

As a Product Manager - Acute Care, you will execute brand strategies and identify new opportunities for assigned products, product lines, lines of business, or on a company-wide campaign basis. You'll be responsible for brand-level development, including market analysis, product acquisitions, and brand management.

What you will do

• Understand key competitors and their relative strengths/weaknesses, and maintain networks of people and resources for obtaining competitive information
• Explain different product features to different customers as appropriate to their needs
• Maintain customer engagement and deeply understand customer needs
• Play a role in developing key strategy documents: strategic plan, annual marketing plan, product launch plans, etc.
• Elevate sales education and confidence related to wound care discussions by driving a deeper understanding of mattress feature sets
• Articulate clinical relevance of current product features (CLRT) and expand justification for its use
• Develop sales offense and messaging for early mobility as it relates to current feature sets, the continuum of care, and areas of collaboration across the product portfolio
• Understand competitive dynamics in the market
• Understand what customers value and how they perceive different attributes of the product or portfolio
• Articulate why the product or portfolio adds value or solves problems for the customer
• Create marketing strategies to understand, develop, and enhance the relationship between the customer and the product or portfolio
• Propose objectives for generating clinical evidence and evaluate studies
• Support engineering sustainment projects
• Tie the business goal of the product or portfolio to the overall goal of Stryker
• Synthesize market trends and make recommendations on areas of strategic focus
• Develop new strategies, sales tools, and communication plans for the product or portfolio
• Apply clinical knowledge in combination with technical knowledge to educate and articulate value
• Work closely with sales training/sales enablement to set the sales training strategy for the product or portfolio
• Provide analytical support to set price
• Articulate desired communications outcomes consistent with marketing strategy to MarComm team
• Establish short-range and long-range improvement goals for the product management team, and under guidance, develop action plans to achieve those goals
• Analyze customer satisfaction to assess trends in customer engagement, and incorporate trends into strategic planning
• Provide marketing intelligence group with key objectives and inputs to drive customer insights

What you need (Required)

• Bachelor’s degree required
• 4 years of professional work experience
• Clinical or medical device experience
• Preferred: MBA preferred, ICU experience preferred
• Ability to manage multiple projects while delivering on established timelines
• Demonstrated proficiency in Microsoft Office (Excel, Word & PowerPoint)
• Excellent presentation and interpersonal communication skills
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• United States of America

Pay Range: USN: $89,300 - $148,800 USD Annual. View the U.S. work location and transparency guide to find the pay range for your location.

Travel Percentage: 40%

Stryker Corporation is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status. Stryker is an EO employer – M/F/Veteran/Disability. Stryker Corporation will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information.

We are one of the world’s leading medical technology companies and, together with our customers, are driven to make healthcare better. We offer innovative products and services in Orthopaedics, Medical and Surgical, and Neurotechnology and Spine that help improve patient and hospital outcomes. We are proud to be named one of the World’s Best Workplaces! For more information, visit: www.stryker.com

Work Flexibility

Remote – Role allows you to work the majority to 100% of time from an alternate workplace. These roles could have travel expectations, and you must work within the country of the job requisition location. Field-based – You can expect to regularly work a majority to 100% of time at customer facilities and has a set territory or expectation to travel within a set boundary. Almost all sales roles would likely be qualified as field-based. Onsite – Role is 100% located at a Stryker facility. Some ad hoc flexibility may be available depending on role, level, and job requirements. Manufacturing roles and any role that requires physical presence at the office would qualify under this category. Hybrid – You can expect to regularly work in both an alternate workplace and a Stryker facility. Roles that are partially remote or co-located would qualify as hybrid, and the expectation to be onsite would be defined and agreed upon by your manager/supervisor.