Lead Specialist, Sales Education
About The Position
Join Stryker’s Emergency Care Sales Education team and turn priorities into action. The Lead Specialist, Sales Education independently leads complex programs and projects that help the sales organization build the knowledge, skills, resources, and experiences needed to better serve customers and clinicians. This is an individual contributor role for an experienced program leader who works hands-on across program planning, project management, stakeholder coordination, event execution, and problem solving. Through expertise, influence, collaboration, and ownership, the role creates scalable, repeatable education experiences that support Emergency Care’s sales organization and contribute to improved patient outcomes and clinician safety. The role is based at the Kalamazoo, Michigan office Monday through Wednesday, with the ability to work from home Thursday and Friday. Travel is required, including field ride-alongs and offsite training, meeting, or product-launch support. The posting gives travel estimates of approximately 25% and 30%.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree.
- Minimum 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 simultaneously, manage dependencies and competing priorities, anticipate risks, and move deliverables forward.
- 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 existing 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 post-program follow-through.
- Partner across Sales, Marketing, Clinical, Sales Leadership, and other business functions to establish clear roles, align stakeholders, resolve barriers, and keep work moving.
- Translate strategic priorities into actionable plans while partnering 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 to 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.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
