Manager, Strategic Partnerships

Manager, Strategic Partnerships North AmericaMake a lasting impact in neurovascular care As the Manager, Strategic Partnerships North America, you will lead efforts to strengthen and grow relationships with key customers across the U.S. and Canada. Partnering with regional sales leaders, you will act as the strategic liaison ensuring alignment between customer needs and company goalsdriving engagement strategies that fuel long-term commercial success.What you will do:Strategic Customer Identification:Collaborate with the North America (NA) sales leadership team to identify high-priority customers and strategic accounts where deeper engagement and partnership opportunities exist.Relationship Development & Management:Serve as the primary corporate point of contact for strategic customers. Build and sustain meaningful relationships through regular communication, on-site visits, and ongoing engagement.Customer Insight & Engagement Planning:Travel to meet with key customers to understand their strategic interests, needs, and goals. Develop individualized engagement plans that align with both customer priorities and the companys business objectives.Customer Segmentation & Profiling:Aligned with global customer segmentation strategic, lead the development and maintenance of customized profiles for each priority target customer. Partner with the NA sales team to ensure profiles are current, actionable, and support tailored engagement strategies.Congress & Event Engagement:Collaborate with sales and marketing teams to design and execute strategic engagement plans at key industry congresses and events.Regional Marketing Collaboration:Work with NA marketing managers to understand annual programs, campaigns, and educational initiatives. Recommend and align appropriate strategic customers to participate in or support these initiatives.Cross-Functional Alignment:Ensure continuous alignment across sales management, North America marketing, medical education, professional affairs, and other internal stakeholders to optimize customer engagement and deliver a cohesive experience to key accounts.Professional Affairs Liaison:Manage contracting process for NA strategic customers.Performance Monitoring:Track engagement and relationship progress, providing regular updates, insights, and recommendations to leadership.What you will need:Required:Bachelors degree in Business, Marketing, Life Sciences, or a related field required8+ years of work experience requiredAbility to travel up to 40% across North AmericaPreferred:Masters Degree preferred5+ years of experience in strategic account management, partnerships, marketing, or customer engagement, highly preferably within the neurovascular space.$115,600 - $245,800 salary plus bonus eligible + benefits. Individual pay is based on skills, experience, and other relevant factors.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.Stryker 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.Depending on customer requirements employees and new hires in sales and field roles that require access to customer accounts as a function of the job may be required to obtain various vaccinations as an essential function of their role. 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.