Stryker
Senior Manager, Brand Marketing, EMEA | Sports Medicine
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The Job’s Mission:
As Senior Manager Brand Marketing, you are the EMEA-wide leader of our Sports Medicine Business. You will lead, develop, and inspire a team of seasoned professionals in Brand, Product Management, and Sales Enablement – as well as set strategic direction towards market share growth through the formulation and execution of effective marketing plans.
Stryker delivers an integrated Sports Medicine product portfolio inclusive of the latest technology for arthroscopic and open shoulder, hip, knee, and small joint procedures. Find out more about our Sports Medicine business via: https://www.stryker.com/us/en/sports-medicine.html
This is an exciting opportunity to join one of the world's leading medical technology organizations in our mission of making healthcare better!
What you will do:
- In your new role, you will start with a familiarization phase to learn about our portfolio and build relationships with internal/external stakeholders.
- Lead, develop, and inspire a team of approximately 4 direct reports and 9 indirect reports, fostering a growth-oriented environment and coaching your team to reach their full potential.
- In alignment with global strategy and in collaboration with internal stakeholders, define and execute the annual and long-range marketing strategy/plan for our EMEA Sports Medicine business, ensuring the organization meets growth, profitability, and market-share goals.
- Collaborate closely with EMEA sales leadership to align marketing and commercial priorities, driving market growth.
- Develop key relationships with industry/market thought leaders, organizations, institutions, key customers, etc. generating strategic insights and deep understanding of customer needs.
- Lead and oversee EMEA strategies for market access, government affairs, and health-economics initiatives, collaborating closely with key stakeholders to deliver business-enabling solutions for the sales organization.
- Define and execute regional product life cycles, including launch and phase-out of products.
- Partner with divisional resources to develop portfolio through new product development, line extensions, and M&A activity.
- Lead the commercialization planning of new product development in partnership with Portfolio teams.
- Manage branding, messaging, positioning, and pricing of assigned brands based on market, customer, and competitive insights.
- Identify education and brand experience opportunities for both internal and external audiences to increase brand perception and value in collaboration with Education Manager.
- In partnership with Education Manager, create EMEA-wide, scalable, customer engagement events such as facility tours/events/congresses, hands-on opportunities, etc.
- Take the lead in developing Key Opinion Leaders (KOLs) for the brand.
- Collaborate with the Global Marketing team including upstream and downstream marketing projects.
- Develop/refine metrics to evaluate the impact of marketing efforts on customer engagement and build deep P&L expertise to understand and influence the financial performance of the Sports Medicine business in EMEA.
- Provide analysis of business performance, brand perception, and other drivers of future brand performance. Define mitigating actions to deliver on strategy.
- Identify opportunities and influence cross-regionally and cross-divisionally to drive growth and deliver enhanced customer value for our business.
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What you need:
Required:
- Bachelor’s degree is required.
- 10+ years of work experience is required, of which a significant portion is in fields such as international Marketing, Product/Brand Management, etc., within industries such as MedTech, BioTech, Pharmaceuticals, healthcare, or related.
- Experience in managing or coaching/mentoring teams is required (4+ years is preferred).
- Ability to accurately and effectively lead/manage (marketing) projects to ensure timely outcomes, business performance, and growth.
- Excellent interpersonal communications, persuasion, and presentation skills – with proficiency in spoken and written English.
- You are a sophisticated collaborator and networker capable of leveraging these strengths and relationships effectively within a matrixed organization.
- Demonstrated ability to relate to stakeholders and customers from different markets and cultures.
- Strong strategic-thinking, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to understand and work within complex interdivisional procedures and policies.
- Impeccable work ethics & integrity in managing confidential information.
- Demonstrated proficiency in Microsoft Office (Excel, Word & PowerPoint).
- Travel percentage: up to 40%.
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Preferred:
- Orthopaedics experience is not mandatory, but it would be an advantage.
- MBA is preferred.
What we offer:
- Flat hierarchies and a culture committed to achieving our mission and delivering remarkable results.
- We grow talent: we offer great personal and internal career development for our employees, with the possibility to make both vertical and lateral position movement.
- An attractive salary and benefits package.
- Recognition of your performance: at Stryker, outstanding individual and cross-functional team performance is rewarded. Ideas, projects, or other exceptional achievements can be submitted for various awards on a local and global level.
- Collaborative and inclusive environment: join a team that values diversity and inclusion, fostering a supportive and innovative workplace.
- Quality products that improve the lives of our customers and patients.
- Ability to discover your strengths, follow your passion, and own your career.
Netherlands Pay Ranges:
Netherlands: €83.100 - €154.400 EUR Annual
Spain Pay Ranges:
Spain: €75.300 - €125.500 EUR Annual
United Kingdom Pay Ranges:
United Kingdom: £80,200 - £133,800 GBP Annual
Italy Pay Ranges:
Italy: €77.800 - €129.700 EUR Annual
At Stryker, we believe transparency helps candidates make confident decisions about their next career step. Compensation is an important part of that process and we want to be clear about how pay is determined. The compensation information posted for this role may be presented as a salary range or a fixed amount depending on the role. In addition to base salary, this role may be eligible for incentive compensation (such as bonus and/or commissions where applicable), along with Stryker’s comprehensive benefits package.
If you’d like to learn more about the salary or the benefits associated with this role, your recruiter will be happy to walk you through the details as you progress through the hiring process.
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. Alongside its customers around the world, Stryker impacts more than 150 million patients annually.
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