Work Flexibility: Remote or Hybrid or Onsite

MEDICAL EDUCATION RESPONSIBILITIES

Technical/Procedure Insight

• Demonstrate high cultural awareness by leading multi-regional teams/initiatives and ability to work in a matrix environment

Market Insights

• Predicts the strengths and weaknesses of the full training & medical education program line compared to the competition
• Leads in the evaluation and selection of competitive analysis tools and technologies
• Leads analyses of the organization's current and potential competitive environment and strategies.

Customer Engagement

• Shapes customer value propositions that are consistent with business strategies.
• Promotes a customer-focused corporate culture.
• Optimizes market share by delivering superior customer value.
• Reshapes markets by anticipating future customer needs.

Program Design

• Drive innovative training platforms for internal and external customers in collaboration with the broader divisional leadership team
• Collaborate with key stakeholders
• Seeks and initiates global cross divisional partnership.  
• Promote “Interdivisional” collaboration and best practice sharing of educational opportunities.

Project Management

• Set direction and shape future needs for entire medical education program offering.
• Ability to lead critical projects that span cross regional, cross divisional or new market opportunity
• Ability to analyze market/external environment and look for opportunities for continuous improvement. 

Training Delivery

• Drive improvements in our medical education offering and implement globally, including digitizing the sales training process, product education and positioning by applying VOC.

Effectiveness Measurement

• Drive departmental objectives, including budget projections
• Establish metrics and goals/success criteria and milestones.
• Establishes long term improvement plan and develops action plans to achieve those goals based on metrics.

Strategic Vision

• Uses strategic planning to enable organizational learning.      
• Authors key strategy documents: strategic plan, annual operational plan.
• Gains organizational alignment and communicates plan with key stakeholders/leadership.
• Directs the entire training program for the organization

Budgets/P&L

• Manage medical education budget in accordance with P&L requirement. 
• Define plan, secure funding, and creatively seek alternatives to optimize our spend and investment.       
• Evaluates impact of Training and medical education strategy on the P&L.
• Discusses alternative budgeting strategies for specific business situations.
• Monitors and ensures adherence to organization's financial practices and standards.
• Reviews and approves all major budget adjustments; negotiates and reconciles line item variances.

Organizational Capabilities

• Drive the Medical Education strategy, goals and tactics in alignment with business and marketing objectives within budget.
• Hire, train, grow and retain talent within team. Set and demonstrate standard for continuous education innovation,
• Guides teams in the development of future competencies to anticipate changes in market conditions and customer requirements.

Customer/Business Centric Development

• Empower team members to independently make key decisions.
• Brand Stewardship
• Responsible of ensuring Stryker is seen as educational thought-leader in the  industry by developing, maintaining, and enhancing the company's image with our education and clinical offense.

Communication Planning

• Partner with Marketing Communication, Marketing and Sales Leadership as well as across Stryker’s Medical Education teams to drive differentiation across our industry

CUSTOMER EXCELLENCE RESPONSIBILITIES

Strategy & Alignment

• Work with all x-functional leaders, UE executive leadership and x-divisional leadership to ensure alignment to surgeon management, and Resident & Fellowship strategies
• Work across Stryker divisional leadership to align and partner on surgeon strategies and Resident and Fellowship strategies
• Manage SAB, Hardware Advisory Board, and Digital Advisory board attendees and agendas to ensure alignment to UE strategic imperatives

Resident & Fellows Management

• Lead a team of program managers to execute the Resident & Fellows annual strategy
• Develop and grow team members to expand capabilities and achieve professional and development goals
• Oversee and optimize utilization and budget, while partnering with Medical Education, Marketing and Sales leadership, for the delivery of business goals
• Oversee annual strategic planning and ensure alignment to business unit strategy
• Oversee the development and delivery of Resident & Fellows programs that aligns with the business unit and divisional goals.
• Build, develop, and manage a team to deliver sustainable results to the organization.
• Create and execute annual Resident & Fellows programs to provide HCP’s with the skills and clinical evidence/awareness to support safe and effective use of Stryker product.
• Develop programs to engage and support Upper Extremities objectives and ensure appropriate partners are in place to effectively deliver educational and value-add objectives.
• Direct, develop, and execute value-added Resident & Fellows programs in alignment with Neurosurgical and Orthopedic Spine.
• Develop new, innovative, and relevant programs to support a consistent educational brand with appropriate messaging.
• Responsible for brand alignment in developing collateral.
• Anticipate, identify, and resolve high-level problems associated with completing projects.

OTHER

• Leads a team of professionals, develops employees, which includes hiring, communicating company policies, coaching and counseling, administering performance appraisals, and enforcing company policies through appropriate disciplinary measures.
• Responsible and accountable for actions promoting an environment that fosters personal growth and development.
• Serves as the representative for various enterprise projects and transformation initiatives.
• Champions technology, organization and culture changes as required by business needs.
• Proactively looks for opportunities for collaboration within and across businesses/divisions.
• Determines and pursues courses of action necessary to obtain business results.
• Inspires trust and builds followership.
• Champions emerging business opportunities considering synergies across multiple businesses

EDUCATION

• Bachelor’s degree required
• MBA preferred

Minimum Qualifications (Required):

• Bachelor’s degree required

Preferred Qualifications (Strongly desired):

• 10+ years of work experience required
• 7+ years medical device and Medical Education experience preferred
• 4+ years of people management experience highly preferred
• Product Management preferred
• Sales Experience preferred
• Financial accountability for independent budgets.
• Demonstrated experience in leading a diverse team.
• Demonstrate global experience.
• Demonstrated leadership skills, 1:1 coaching skill, ability to prioritize and multitask
• Expected to create a vision and strategy through leadership and effective team coordination.
• Will work with leadership to identify strategic opportunities to improve HCP’s knowledge, skills, competency, performance or patient outcomes with the use of Stryker products.
• Raise the level of engagement of our consultants, priority professional societies, organizations, groups and medical education providers
• Excellent presentation and interpersonal communications skills
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to manage multiple projects while delivering on established timelines
• Ability to be persuasive in the absence of organizational authority
• Must be able to understand and work within complex interdivisional procedures and policies
• Demonstrated proficiency in Microsoft Office (Excel, Word & PowerPoint)

$145,700 - $321,000 salary plus bonus eligible + generally eligible for short-term and long-term financial incentives + benefits.  Actual minimum and maximum may vary based on location.  Individual pay is based on skills, experience, and other relevant factors.

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.