Marketing Associate

**Why join Stryker?**:
Our total rewards package offering includes bonuses, healthcare, insurance benefits, retirement programs, wellness programs, as well as service and performance awards - not to mention various social and recreational activities, all of which are location specific.

We are hiring a Marketing Associate to join our Trauma & Extremities (T&E) team.

This is a hybrid position offering excellent workplace flexibility.

**Who we want**:

- Hard-working winners. Confident, competitive and results-oriented professionals who create a track record of success.
- Dedicated achievers. People who thrive in a fast-paced environment and will stop at nothing to ensure a project is complete and meets regulations and expectations.
- Effective communicators. People who can interpret information clearly and accurately to concisely communicate results and recommendations to stakeholders.
- Collaborative partners. People who build and leverage cross-functional relationships to bring together ideas, information, use cases, and industry analyses to develop best practices.

**What you will do**:

- Understand key competitors and their relative strengths/weaknesses
- Understand customer groups, including why customers buy the product or service
- Identify critical customer needs and preferences
- Provides customer feedback to marketing leadership
- Aid in the construction of the marketing plan
- Understand basic budget management principles
- Understand general marketing principles such as segmentation, targeting, and positioning
- Subject matter expert for applicable products/product lines and able to field technical questions
- Support sales training initiatives and programs throughout the year
- Support the on-label use and promotion of all products
- Understand and supports setting price and maintaining product or portfolio margin
- Aware of commonly used internal/external communication goals, tools and formats
- Use appropriate scorecards to track results
- Track existing KPIs and reports back to the organization
- Share basic customer satisfaction input trends with the salesforce

**Minimum Qualifications (required)**:

- Bachelor’s degree required
- 0+ years of work experience required

**Preferred Qualifications (Strongly desired)**:

- MBA preferred
- Excellent presentation and interpersonal communications 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
- Must be able to understand and work within complex interdivisional procedures and policies
- Demonstrated proficiency in Microsoft Office (Excel, Word & PowerPoint)

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