Why join Stryker?
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As a Medical Education Associate on Stryker's Neurosurgical team, you will help provide world-class education to our customers by helping to plan and execute education events working with healthcare professionals across the country. This is a 60% travel role.
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.
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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:
- Basic understanding of marketing/sales related event coordination
- Basic product and procedural knowledge
- Basic understanding of competitive landscape
- General understanding of key customer groups
- Basic understanding of educational program design
- Strong interpersonal skills including written and oral communication
- Support the coordination of Medical Education courses and programs
- Basic understanding of how we deliver training
- Gather data and information from Medical Education programs
- Understand our medical education and business strategy
- Understand our budgeting process
- Understand customer profiles including why we engage KOL
- Understand training and Medical Education workstreams
- Understand why and how we listen to our customers
- Awareness of internal branding guidelines
- Aware of commonly used internal communication tools
What you need:
- Bachelor's degree required
- 0+ years of work experience required
- Previous experience with event planning and coordination is 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)
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 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 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.