Corporate Strategy Manager

Zimmer, Inc.•Remote, Remote

6d•$113,500 - $150,000

About The Position

The Corporate Strategy Manager leads Zimmer Biomet’s annual enterprise strategic-planning process and manages major corporate strategic initiatives from planning through execution. The role aligns global teams across business units, regions, and functions around integrated workplans, accountable owners, milestones, deliverables, governance, and decision points. It monitors interdependencies, risks, outcomes, and timelines, and works with the Sr. Director, Corporate Strategy and senior leaders to maintain alignment, resolve escalations, and deliver initiatives. The position also strengthens the organization’s planning and initiative-management practices, producing consistent leadership materials and coordinating with Finance and initiative owners to track strategic and financial outcomes. It builds alignment across commercial, clinical, regulatory, operations, finance, and external partner teams through influence rather than direct authority.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree and 4 years of relevant experience, or Associate’s degree and 6 years of relevant experience, or high school diploma or equivalent and 8 years of relevant experience.
Experience managing complex cross-functional programs, strategic-planning processes, transformation initiatives, or consulting engagements from scope through delivery.
Strong organization and execution discipline, including critical-path planning, deliverable management, dependency mapping, risk and issue resolution, and timeline recovery.
Strong facilitation and stakeholder-management skills, including ability to align senior leaders and diverse teams, establish ownership, and drive action without direct authority.
Ability to structure ambiguous business questions into workstreams, frame decisions, and integrate analysis into concise, decision-ready narratives.
Business and financial acumen, including ability to coordinate business cases, assumptions, investment considerations, KPIs, and benefit tracking with Finance and initiative owners.
Strong executive communication and presentation skills, including status reporting, concise escalations, and meeting leadership.
Experience directing analysts, consultants, or cross-functional workstream contributors and reviewing their outputs.
Adaptability, proactivity, composure under tight timelines, sound judgment, and discretion with sensitive enterprise information.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor’s degree in business, strategy, economics, finance, engineering, or a related field.
MBA or other advanced degree.
Six years of relevant experience in management consulting, corporate strategy, PMO/program management, transformation, or enterprise initiative delivery, with demonstrated ability to lead complex cross-functional projects from planning through delivery.
Experience in the MedTech, medical device, or broader life sciences industry; familiarity with orthopedic or surgical markets is a plus.
Formal project or program management training or certification.

Responsibilities

Own the end-to-end enterprise strategic-planning integrated workplan and calendar, including phases, milestones, input requests, review gates, decision points, deliverables, and executive forums.
Coordinate planning inputs and execution across global business units, regions, and functions, clarifying expectations, owners, dependencies, timelines, and deliverables and following up to secure decision-ready contributions.
Manage major corporate strategic initiatives through global cross-functional teams, translating approved priorities into plans with scope, workstreams, owners, milestones, deliverables, governance, success measures, and interdependencies.
Facilitate planning workshops, cross-functional working sessions, and executive initiative reviews; prepare agendas and pre-reads, capture decisions and actions, and follow through to closure.
Track progress, milestones, risks, issues, decisions, and dependencies; identify delays, coordinate corrective action, and escalate issues when needed.
Advise teams on sequencing and trade-offs when priorities compete, maintaining alignment with enterprise goals.
Integrate workstream outputs into leadership materials such as status updates, presentations, dashboards, and summaries connecting analysis, recommendations, financial implications, and implementation plans.
Partner with initiative owners and Finance to establish baselines, KPIs, benefit assumptions, investment and resource considerations, and a cadence for tracking strategic and financial outcomes.
Lead assigned strategy workstreams, aligning contributors and clarifying scope, workplans, review cycles, timelines, and deliverable standards; provide direction and feedback to analysts and workstream leads.
Improve planning and initiative-management processes, governance, templates, dashboards, and communications.
Build collaborative relationships across commercial, clinical, regulatory, operations, finance, and external partner teams to gain alignment and commitment through influence.
Direct analysts, consultants, or cross-functional workstream contributors and review their outputs for completeness, accuracy, and executive readiness.