As our Manager, Market Insights, you will serve as a strategic, cross-functional partner who turns market, customer, and competitive insights into meaningful business direction for Stryker’s Medical Division. You will support portfolio marketing, business development, strategic planning, and future product strategy by identifying critical knowledge gaps, generating new insights, and translating complex information into clear recommendations that help teams make informed decisions.
This is an individual contributor role with broad influence across the organization. You will partner closely with Marketing, Business Development, and other cross-functional stakeholders to connect insights across portfolios, align teams around key priorities, and bring clarity to complex or ambiguous business questions.
What you will do
Market Insights & Primary Research
- Identify critical market and customer knowledge gaps and develop research approaches to address them.
- Lead primary research efforts, including customer and sales interviews, field observations, ride-alongs, and other methods to uncover customer, user, and market needs.
- Synthesize primary research, secondary research, internal knowledge, and market data into actionable insights and recommendations.
- Apply appropriate market research methodologies based on the business question and available data.
Competitive & Industry Insights
- Evaluate and monitor competitor products, services, strategies, and market activity.
- Identify changes in the competitive and industry landscape and translate them into implications for Stryker’s businesses and portfolios.
- Connect insights across projects and portfolios to provide a broader view of emerging opportunities, risks, and market dynamics.
Market Sizing & Strategic Planning
- Develop and maintain market models that help define market size, growth, segmentation, competitive dynamics, and potential new opportunities.
- Guide category definition and segmentation exercises, challenging existing assumptions as markets and customer needs evolve.
- Provide market insights and analyses that support annual strategic planning, portfolio decisions, business development, and future product strategy.
- Partner with stakeholders to evaluate new markets, opportunities, and strategic questions.
Strategic Storytelling & Cross-Functional Influence
- Transform complex research and data into clear, compelling narratives and visual presentations for a variety of audiences.
- Facilitate discussions and workshops that help teams interpret insights, align around priorities, and move from information to action.
- Influence decisions across a highly matrixed organization without relying on formal authority.
- Build strong cross-functional partnerships and help connect insights, opportunities, and priorities across teams and portfolios.
What you need
Required
- Bachelor’s degree.
- 8+ years of professional experience.
- 5+ years of experience in market research, market insights, upstream marketing, strategy, or a related discipline.
- Demonstrated experience developing and executing primary research, such as customer interviews, field research, observational research, or other direct methods of gathering market and customer insights.
Preferred
- Experience with market sizing, segmentation, quantitative analysis, and/or financial modeling.
- Experience facilitating workshops or cross-functional working sessions.
- Experience developing executive-level presentations or using visual storytelling to communicate complex ideas.
- Experience supporting portfolio strategy, business development, strategic planning, or new product strategy.
Preferred location is Portage, MI or Redmond, WA; candidates located elsewhere should expect increased travel requirements.
United States of America Pay Ranges:
- USN: $102,600 - $171,000 USD Annual
- US5: $107,700 - $179,600 USD Annual
- US10: $112,900 - $188,100 USD Annual
- US15: $118,000 - $196,600 USD Annual
- US20: $123,100 - $205,200 USD Annual
- US30: $133,400 - $222,300 USD Annual
Travel Percentage: 30%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 contractor’s legal duty to furnish information.
Skills Required
- Bachelor’s degree
- 8+ years of professional experience
- 5+ years of experience in market research, market insights, upstream marketing, strategy, or a related discipline
- Experience developing and executing primary research, including customer interviews, field research, observational research, or other direct market and customer insight methods
- Experience with market sizing, segmentation, quantitative analysis, and/or financial modeling
- Experience facilitating workshops or cross-functional working sessions
- Experience developing executive-level presentations or using visual storytelling to communicate complex ideas
- Experience supporting portfolio strategy, business development, strategic planning, or new product strategy
Stryker Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Stryker and has not been reviewed or approved by Stryker.
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Healthcare Strength — Multiple medical plan options with HSA support and global mental‑health access indicate broad, accessible care. These features materially enhance the overall value of the total‑rewards package.
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Retirement Support — A meaningful 401(k) company match with potential additional company contribution, alongside an ESPP, supports long‑term savings and wealth building. Documented plan specifics help employees understand eligibility, timing, and vesting mechanics.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental and caregiver leave, adoption and surrogacy assistance, and practical supports like breast milk shipping reflect a comprehensive, family‑friendly approach. These offerings address varied family‑building paths and caregiving needs.
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What We Do
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 130 million patients annually. More information is available at www.stryker.com. Together with our customers, we are driven to make healthcare better.
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