Senior Portfolio Associate - Hybrid

Stryker Corporation; Fremont (CA); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 144,000; Full time

Job summary

Stryker Corporation is seeking a Senior Portfolio Associate to drive strategic initiatives from concept through commercialization in neurovascular devices. You will work with R&D, marketing, sales, and regulatory teams to ensure successful launches and maximize market adoption of thrombectomy, access, and embolization solutions.

Key responsibilities include competitive insights, market research, forecasting, and leading the NPD process to deliver robust business cases and ROI.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree is required.
• 2+ years of work experience is required.
• MBA is preferred.
• 2+ years of medical device or marketing/sales experience is preferred.
• Excellent presentation and interpersonal communication skills are required.

Responsibilities

• Gather and collate competitive information to drive insights and value propositions.
• Lead new product development (NPD) processes and ROI modeling to support funding and launches.
• Forecast sales trends and analyze key forecasting factors.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with R&D, marketing, sales, and regulatory to ensure successful launches.
• Develop marketing strategy, plans, and analyses for product launches and lifecycle management.
• Define performance criteria to evaluate business trends and activities.

Skills

Presentation skills

Interpersonal communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree

MBA

Job description

Work Flexibility: Hybrid We are seeking a highly motivated Senior Portfolio Associate to join our team, specializing in neurovascular medical devices for ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke. In this role, you will be responsible for driving the development and execution of strategic initiatives from concept through commercialization, including product innovation in thrombectomy, access, and embolization solutions. You will work closely with cross-functional teams—including R&D, marketing, sales, and regulatory affairs to ensure successful launches and maximize market adoption of these life-saving neurovascular products. Additionally, you will partner with other senior team members on various product lines as needed to support broader business objectives.

What you will do:

• Competitive and Customer Insights: Gather and collate competitive information to drive insights. Anticipate customer and patient needs to create a superior value proposition. Leverage key opinion leaders to obtain insights.
• Optimize the value proposition by understanding customers. Utilize market research and third-party data to identify key industry trends. Combines historical and current data to optimize market research. Combine historical and current data to enhance market research.
• Predict sales trends and research key forecasting factors.
• Portfolio Development: Collaborate cross-departmentally to lead the new product development (NPD) process. Build financial business case model to support NDP funding and ROI. Deliver business objectives, marketing objectives, and lead the discovery process for pre-commercialization plans.
• Maximize NPD and launch planning by leveraging core competencies and strategic assets.
• Partner with Clinical Affairs to propose research objectives for evidence generation (Clinical studies, research papers, etc.).
• Marketing strategy, plan, and analysis: Authors key strategy documents: strategic plan, annual marketing plan, product launch plans, etc.
• Translate the marketing plan to specific marketing activities to carry out the plan.
• Understand the costs of acquiring new customers vs. retaining current customers.
• Target customers based on total market potential and opportunity.
• Evaluate potential sources of new volume and financial trade-offs within and outside current customer segments.
• Brand Management: Collaborate with downstream marketing for execution a product lifecycle management (PLCM) plan as it relates to the overall business and launch strategy.
• Develop and communicate a value proposition. Work with regions and downstream marketing to create a pricing strategy consistent with the Marketing Strategy and positioning.
• Define performance criteria used for evaluating business trends and activities.
• Leadership: Adhere to organizational protocols, practices and procedures for gathering competitive information. Hold self and others accountable to deliver high quality results with passion, energy, and drive to meet business priorities.

What you will need:

• Required: Bachelor’s degree required.
• 2+ years of work experience required.
• Preferred: MBA preferred.
• 2+ years medical device or marketing/sales experience preferred.
• Excellent presentation and interpersonal communications skills.
• United States of America Pay Ranges: US30: $90,400 - $144,200 USD Annual View the U.S. work location and transparency guide to find the pay range for your location.
• Travel Percentage: 30%

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.

Stryker is one of the world’s leading medical technology companies and, together with its customers, is 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.