Communications Manager, Stryker India

Essential duties & responsibilities:

Strategic Communications and Reputation Management:

• Develops and implements communications strategies aligned with divisional goals to promote and protect Strykers business and reputation among internal and external audiences.
• Brings external insights into the business shapes and refines strategies to enhance communications outcomes.
• Identifies gaps and implements processes to improve communications effectiveness.
• Shares communications best practices with businesses including communications strategies and plans drive greater consistency and effectiveness.
• Supports the companys efforts to identify and manage reputational issues in the business.
• Stays connected to company-level crisis management team plans and protocols.
• Leads crisis communications response in the event of issues and crises.
• Implements crisis management tools and best practices and identify opportunities for evolving.

Marketing Communications External engagement & PR

• Enables business growth by driving therapy and patient awareness initiatives and strong product communications.
• Integrates PR and media strategy as a commercial enabler in partnership with business leaders particularly within MedTech and healthcare.
• Manages media relationships and external inquiries.
• Leads divisional campaigns targeted at external audiences in collaboration with Marketing.
• Builds and sustains a consistent brand voice across corporate business and talent communications.
• Develops high-quality communication assets including press releases thought leadership executive content blogs and campaign copy.
• Strengthens executive visibility through industry forums media engagement and strategic speaking opportunities.

Internal Communications:

• Crafts and delivers compelling internal messaging that drives employee engagement around divisional strategy vision leadership updates and organizational shifts.
• Leads and supports key internal forums including town halls leadership meetings annual sales meetings strategic planning sessions and global leadership visits.
• Develops maintains and optimizes internal communications channels ensuring strong connectivity with enterprise-wide messaging.
• Partners with senior leadership to translate strategy into clear actionable communication that aligns teams and reinforces culture.
• Develop maintain and optimize internal channels and ensure connectivity to rest of the company.

Employer Branding

• Develops and executes a structured employer branding roadmap aligned with talent strategy and company culture.
• Strengthens presence across LinkedIn Glassdoor and other talent platforms; partners with HR on GPTW and employer recognition initiatives.
• Supports campus engagement and talent pipeline programs through targeted brand-building efforts.
• Partners with HR and business leaders to shape narratives that reinforce culture employee advocacy DE&I initiatives and workplace achievements.
• Drives campaigns that showcase employee stories career progression and organizational impact.

Digital Communications & Digital Marketing

• Lead the digital communications strategy across web social media and internal digital platforms.
• Manage content calendars digital storytelling and multimedia assets to enhance engagement.
• Manage Stryker India and Patient websites.
• Work with analytics tools to measure channel effectiveness and optimize content performance.
• Oversee digital marketing campaigns for key initiatives as applicable (events product updates employer branding leadership visibility etc.).

Stakeholder Engagement and operating excellence

• Collaborates with commercial cross-functional teams and global communications team to implement strategic communications programs aligned with divisional and business goals.
• Shapes messaging and other content for senior leaders for internal and external activities.
• Writes and edits high-impact content for various internal and external channels such as newsletters messages from VP/GMs townhall presentations.
• Continuously optimizes strategies based on insights and feedback.
• Works collaboratively with communications leads in and outside of APAC to build communications capabilities and advance opportunities that impact business goals.
• Manages third party communication consultants and agency partners as needed.
• Holds excellent standards on quality of work and thinking.
• Works independently with resourcefulness and superb project management skills.
• Brings great energy to the work and inspires trust and credibility among teams and wider stakeholders.

Team management

• Leads coaches and develops a high-performing communications team of two direct reports setting clear priorities performance expectations and growth plans aligned with business objectives.
• Provides strategic direction while empowering team members with ownership ensuring strong execution accountability and continuous capability building.
• Fosters a collaborative high-trust team culture and optimizes workload planning resource allocation and agency partnerships to deliver impact at scale.

Qualifications & experience:

• 10 years of relevant work experience
• Previous People Management experience
• Excellent storytelling writing and presentation 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
• Demonstrated proficiency in Microsoft Office (Excel Word & PowerPoint)
• Has experience working in regional settings preferred
• Has experience working in multi-national settings preferred
• Travel Percentage: 20%