Marketing Associate

Why join Stryker?

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Who we want

• Hard-working winners. Confident, competitive and results-oriented professionals who create a track record of success.
• Dedicated achievers. People who thrive in a fast-paced environment and will stop at nothing to ensure a project is complete and meets regulations and expectations.
• Effective communicators. People who can interpret information clearly and accurately to concisely communicate results and recommendations to stakeholders.

What you will do

• Understand key competitors and their relative strengths/weaknesses
• Understand customer groups, including why customers buy the product or service
• Identify critical customer needs and preferences
• Provides customer feedback to marketing leadership
• Aid in the construction of the marketing plan
• Understand basic budget management principles
• Understand general marketing principles such as segmentation, targeting, and positioning
• Is the subject matter expert for applicable products/product lines and able to field technical questions. [note: some products are more technical than others and will take longer to get to SME status]
• Support sales training initiatives and programs throughout the year
• Support the on-label use and promotion of all products
• Understand and supports setting price and maintaining product or portfolio margin
• Share basic customer satisfaction input trends with the salesforce

What you need

• Bachelor's degree required
• MBA preferred
• 0+ years of work experience required
• Excellent presentation and interpersonal communications skills

About Stryker

Our benefits:

• 12 paid holidays annually
• 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.

For a more detailed overview of our benefits or time off, please follow this link to learn more: US Stryker employee benefits

About Stryker
Stryker is a global leader in medical technologies and, together with its customers, is driven to make healthcare better. The company 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 130 million patients annually. More information is available at stryker.com.

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Stryker is driven to work together with our customers to make healthcare better. Employees and new hires in sales and field roles that require access to customer accounts as a function of the job may be required, depending on customer requirements, to obtain various vaccinations as an essential function of their role.