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　　As our Marketing Associate for our Orthopedics business, you will help the planning and implementation of projects that support the marketing function. Interacts directly with product managers to identify new marketing opportunities, prepares regular marketing activity reports, and responds to questions from the sales organization.

　　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

　　What you need:

　　• Bachelor's degree required

　　• 0+ years of work experience required

　　About Stryker

　　Our benefits:

　　12 paid holidays annually Health benefits include: Medical and prescription drug insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, critical illness insurance, accident insurance, hospital indemnity insurance, personalized healthcare support, wellbeing program and tobacco cessation program. Financial benefits include Health Savings Account (HSA), Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs), 401(k) plan, Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), basic life and AD&D insurance, and short-term disability insurance.

　　For a more detailed overview of our benefits or time off, please follow this link to learn more: US Stryker employee benefits

　　About Stryker

　　Stryker is one of the world's leading medical technology companies and, together with its customers, is driven to make healthcare better. The company offers innovative products and services in Medical and Surgical, Neurotechnology, Orthopaedics and Spine that help improve patient and healthcare outcomes. Alongside its customers around the world, Stryker impacts more than 130 million patients annually. More information is available at stryker.com.

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　　Stryker is driven to work together with our customers to make healthcare better. Employees and new hires in sales and field roles that require access to customer accounts as a function of the job may be required, depending on customer requirements, to obtain various vaccinations as an essential function of their role.