Lead Specialist, Sales Education

Stryker•Portage, MI

15h•Hybrid

About The Position

The Lead Specialist, Sales Education independently leads complex programs and projects that help Stryker’s Emergency Care sales organization build the knowledge, skills, resources, and experiences needed to serve customers and clinicians. This individual-contributor role is suited to an experienced program leader who leads through expertise, influence, collaboration, and ownership, working across program planning, project management, stakeholder coordination, event execution, and hands-on problem solving. The role develops scalable, repeatable education experiences that support the Emergency Care sales organization and contribute to improved patient outcomes and clinician safety. The position is based at the Kalamazoo, Michigan office Monday through Wednesday, with the ability to work from home Thursday and Friday. Travel is required for field ride-alongs and offsite training, meetings, or product-launch support. The posting gives travel estimates of approximately 25% and 30%.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree.
At least 4 years of relevant professional experience, with demonstrated progression in responsibility, complexity, and ownership.
Experience independently leading complex programs, projects, or events from strategy through execution.
Experience managing multiple priorities, stakeholders, timelines, and deliverables simultaneously.
Experience creating structure, tracking commitments, and driving work through completion.
Experience using project-management tools such as Trello or similar platforms to manage work and provide visibility across multiple workstreams.
Demonstrated ability to solve problems, navigate ambiguity, anticipate needs, and take independent action.
Demonstrated ability to collaborate across functions, influence without formal authority, and communicate with senior leaders.

Nice To Haves

Experience building or improving repeatable processes, documentation, project-management practices, or operational workflows.
Experience coordinating education, training, meetings, events, onboarding, or other multi-stakeholder programs.
Experience creating program plans, status updates, executive communications, and tools that provide visibility across complex work.
Experience supporting programs that require detailed execution and senior-level stakeholder engagement.
Experience taking ownership of established or in-progress programs and improving them through continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

Own complex Sales Education programs and strategic initiatives from concept through execution, translating business priorities into project plans, timelines, milestones, deliverables, and success measures.
Lead multiple high-priority projects at once; manage dependencies and competing priorities, anticipate risks, and proactively advance deliverables.
Establish and maintain project-management processes and tools, including Trello, to provide visibility into priorities, owners, timelines, decisions, commitments, and next steps.
Improve and document processes, including repeatable approaches to onboarding and sales education programs.
Lead end-to-end execution of Sales Education programs, meetings, and events, coordinating agendas, speakers, stakeholders, communications, materials, logistics, onsite needs, and follow-through.
Partner with Sales, Marketing, Clinical, Sales Leadership, and other functions to establish roles, align stakeholders, resolve barriers, and keep work moving.
Translate strategic priorities into actionable plans in partnership with Sales Education colleagues responsible for curriculum and learning design.
Prepare executive-ready communications and program updates covering progress, decisions, risks, and next steps.
Identify continuous-improvement opportunities and build repeatable processes that strengthen the team’s ability to plan, track, execute, measure, and scale its work.
Support emerging strategic and tactical needs, including helping execute training sessions when needed.