Senior Marketing Manager, Sustainability Programs

Stryker; Portage (MI); On-site; USD 163,000 - 271,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical and prescription druginsurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) plan

Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)

Job summary

Stryker seeks a Senior Marketing Manager, Sustainability Programs, to lead portfolio strategy and market development for the medical device reprocessing program, driving adoption and value demonstration for healthcare customers.

You will collaborate across marketing and sales, shape customer communications, manage events, and present strategic recommendations to leaders, with travel up to 50% across the United States.

Qualifications

• Minimum Bachelor's degree required in a relevant field.
• 10+ years of professional experience in marketing or related roles.
• 7+ years of healthcare experience in marketing, sales, or related functions.
• Ability to translate complex programs into clear value propositions.
• Strong presentation and communication skills; able to influence senior leaders.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute portfolio and market-development strategy to increase adoption.
• Create customer-facing communications and value propositions.
• Lead strategic initiatives and industry events.
• Collaborate with upstream/downstream marketing, sales, and corporate teams.
• Leverage market insights to identify unmet needs and guide strategies.
• Build customer journey strategies to boost engagement.
• Represent the business at associations, meetings, and trade shows.
• Develop high-quality strategic presentations for customers and internal stakeholders.
• Identify opportunities for new products and programs.
• Oversee marketing budget and explain variances.
• Drive cross-functional alignment and remove execution barriers.
• Influence across teams even without direct authority.

Skills

Customer-facing experience

Presentation skills

Strategic thinking

Analytical skills

Relationship-building

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Word

Microsoft PowerPoint

Job description

As Senior Marketing Manager, Sustainability Programs, you will lead portfolio strategy and market development for our medical device reprocessing program, helping healthcare customers understand and realize the value of the broader offering. This highly visible, customer-facing role combines healthcare marketing, commercial strategy, customer insights, and thought leadership. You will develop strategies that increase customer adoption and engagement, translate market insights into compelling programs and value propositions, and confidently represent the business with customers, industry organizations, and business leaders.

In this role, you will be required to travel up to 50% throughout the US.

What You Will Do

• Develop and execute the overall portfolio and market-development strategy for the medical device reprocessing program, with a focus on increasing customer adoption, acceptance, and access.
• Develop customer-facing communications, programs, sales tools, and value propositions that clearly articulate the value of the overall reprocessing program.
• Lead key strategic initiatives and industry events, including CleanMed, Environmental Excellence Awards, and Products for the Planet.
• Partner closely with upstream and downstream marketing, sales, corporate teams, and other Stryker businesses to drive alignment around key initiatives and business priorities
• Develop and leverage customer and market insights to identify unmet needs, anticipate evolving healthcare trends, and inform future commercial and marketing strategies.
• Build customer journey strategies that strengthen customer engagement and support adoption of the broader program offering.
• Develop relationships with healthcare customers, industry thought leaders, organizations, and institutions, translating insights into actionable business strategies.
• Represent the business at industry associations, customer meetings, trade shows, and other external events.
• Independently develop high-quality strategic presentations and content and effectively present recommendations, programs, and value propositions to customers and internal stakeholders.
• Identify opportunities for new products, services, programs, and market-development initiatives based on evolving customer needs.
• Develop and manage the marketing budget and analyze and explain budget variances.
• Recommend process improvements, remove barriers to execution, and help drive cross-functional initiatives forward.
• Influence and drive alignment across teams and business leaders, including situations where direct organizational authority does not exist.

What you need

• Bachelor's degree
• 10+ years of professional experience
• 7+ years of healthcare experience, with experience in marketing, sales, medical education, sales training, product management, or another commercial/customer-facing function.
• Demonstrated ability to develop and independently drive commercial, portfolio, product, or market-development strategies.
• Strong customer-facing experience with the ability to translate complex programs, products, and customer needs into compelling value propositions.
• Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills, with the ability to independently develop high-quality content and confidently present to customers, senior leaders, and industry audiences.
• Strong strategic thinking, analytical, problem-solving, and relationship-building skills.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.

Preferred

• Medical device experience is highly decriable
• Upstream and/or downstream marketing experience strongly preferred for candidates coming from a marketing background.
• Ability to influence and drive alignment across functions without direct organizational authority.
• Ability to manage multiple complex priorities and deliver against established timelines.
• Ability to navigate complex cross-functional and interdivisional environments.

United States of America Pay Ranges

• USN: $135,600 - $225,900 USD Annual
• US5: $142,400 - $237,200 USD Annual
• US10: $149,200 - $248,500 USD Annual
• US15: $155,900 - $259,800 USD Annual
• US20: $162,700 - $271,100 USD Annual
• US30: $176,300 - $293,700 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. 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.