Director Downstream Marketing

Stryker • Tempe, AZ

3d • Hybrid

About The Position

This role is responsible for leading the product or portfolio strategy, establishing a long-term vision for brand structure, and setting direction for product-specific marketing campaigns. The position involves predicting industry trends, analyzing the competitive environment, and evaluating the impact of marketing strategy on the P&L. The Director will develop organizational direction for sales channel strategy, foresee market and competitive factors, and play a key role in business development initiatives. This role also involves championing technology, organization, and culture changes, as well as identifying and managing emerging business opportunities. A significant part of the role includes leading a team of professionals, fostering a high-performance environment, and driving business results.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree required
• 10+ years of work experience required
• 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)

Nice To Haves

• MBA preferred
• 7+ years medical device or marketing/sales experience preferred
• 4+ years of people management experience preferred

Responsibilities

• Lead the product or portfolio strategy, linking goals to company-wide strategy
• Establish long-term vision for product or portfolio brand structure across business segment to match company strategic vision
• Set direction for the development of product-specific marketing campaigns
• Predict industry trends and marketplace developments relevant to business analytics
• Lead analysis of the organization's current and potential competitive environment and strategies
• Evaluate impact of marketing strategy on the P&L
• Develop organizational direction and best practices for the management of current and future sales channel strategy
• Foresee the impact of market and competitive factors on the business strategic choices
• Play a key role in business development initiatives
• Champion technology, organization and culture changes as required by business needs
• Proactively look for opportunities for collaboration within and across businesses/divisions and initiate and manage change
• Champion emerging business opportunities considering synergies across multiple businesses and/or geographies
• Lead a team of professionals: develop employees, which includes hiring, communicating company policies, coaching, developing and counseling, administering performance appraisals, and enforcing company policies through appropriate disciplinary measures
• Responsible and accountable for actions promoting an environment that fosters high performance, personal growth and development
• Determine and pursue courses of action necessary to obtain business results
• Inspire trust and build followership

Benefits

• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees