Associate Marketing Communications Manager
Portage, WI - USA
Job Summary
*This is a remote role that has a preference for candidates who are in the Eastern & Central Time Zones
As the Associate Marketing Communications Manager you serve as the creative engine helping to build strategy and translate it into action for our Interventional Spine (IVS) business. Your role is dynamic and highly collaborative requiring strategic planning and tactical execution. No day is like another. You are responsible for constantly connecting people ideas tools and stories to have maximum impact. You serve as an integral member of the team working alongside stakeholders to understand our customers while employing tools and tactics to make unexpected connections and elevate the IVS brand.
What you will do:
- Bring our brand to life by building and translating marketing strategies into action
- Develop persuasive benefit-driven messaging to articulate value propositions to different customer groups in alignment with their needs
- Support the development and authoring of Commercialization Plans for launches and Annual Marketing Plans translating strategies into actionable tactics
- Provide creative direction for marketing and promotional materials including messaging collateral development digital and advertising strategies for different customer groups in alignment with their needs
- Support the development and authoring of Commercialization Plans for launches and Annual Marketing Plans translating strategies into actionable tactics
- Write and edit publishing materials scripts or other communication media
- Lead with assistance in the development of marketing copy or promotional text for specific types of publications
- Provide creative direction for marketing and promotional materials including messaging collateral development digital and advertising strategies
- Leverage the different marketing channel strategies tracking impact and making strategic channel decisions based upon ROI
- Assess competitive insights adjusting messaging strategy and tactics as needed
- Serve as a brand steward adhering to promoting training and integrating Strykers visual and verbal brand guidelines within the business
- Develop presentations for self and others organizing key points and supporting information in a visually stimulating and concise manner for the target audience
- Support sales enablement platforms to ensure more current collateral materials and communication templates are available
- Apply clinical knowledge in combination with technical knowledge to develop unique and enticing assets for the sales team
- Support internal communication needs including editorial calendar management template development platform maintenance tracking and reporting
- Develop and manage key vendor and agency relationships
- Develop and maintain project calendars to establish priorities track project status and deliverables
- Identify track analyze and report on key metrics
- Manage activity budgets and related expenses reporting as necessary
What you need (Required):
- Bachelors degree required
- 6 years of work experience required
Preferred Qualifications:
- MBA preferred
- 3 years of medical device or marketing experience preferred
- Excellent presentation and interpersonal communication skills
- Agency management
- 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) Adobe Creative Suite (InDesign Illustrator) and Marketo platforms
United States of America Pay Ranges:
- USN: $89300 - $148800 USD Annual
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Travel Percentage: 20%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 contractors legal duty to furnish information.Required Experience:
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About Company
Stryker is a global leader in medical technologies and, together with its customers, is driven to make healthcare better. The company offers innovative products and services in MedSurg, Neurotechnology, Orthopaedics and Spine that help improve patient and healthcare outcomes. Alongsid ... View more