Work Flexibility: Remote

The Senior Manager, Communications supports the Group Communications team, reporting to the Vice President, Executive Communications. This role helps advance group-level communications priorities by developing clear narratives, compelling visuals and scalable materials that help senior leaders engage employees, customers and key stakeholders. Key responsibilities span executive presentations, video and visual content, creative toolkits and strategic storytelling. Success requires strong business judgment, executive presence, exceptional writing and presentation skills, and the ability to influence across a complex, matrixed organization while translating strategy into action.

What you will do

• Support and execute Group Communications strategies that advance business priorities, executive visibility, and enterprise objectives.

• Develop communication toolkits, best practices, and resources to drive consistency, clarity, and alignment across channels and stakeholders.

• Create executive communications and leadership content, including presentations, speeches, talking points, scripts, briefing materials, and leader messages.

• Support communications for high-impact business events, including customer engagements, sales meetings, industry events, M&A activities, and integrations.

• Lead internal and change communications that inform, engage, and connect employees to group priorities, enterprise strategy, and Stryker’s mission.

• Develop clear, compelling business narratives and visual communications while ensuring alignment with brand, accessibility, inclusion, editorial, and corporate communication standards.

• Support external communications, executive visibility, issues management, and reputation initiatives to strengthen brand advocacy and stakeholder trust.

• Measure communication effectiveness and collaborate cross-functionally with communications teams, agencies, designers, videographers, and consultants to continuously improve and deliver strategic communications.

What you need

Required:

• Bachelor's degree

• Minimum 10 years professional experience

Preferred:

• MBA

• Minimum 7 years communications experience

• Agency experience

• Experience supporting senior executives, leadership teams or group-level business priorities 

• Experience developing executive presentations, creative campaigns, event branding, video content or scalable communication toolkits

• Experience leading cross-functional creative teams, agency partners or project-based teams without direct authority

  

 

United States of America Pay Ranges:

• USN: $135,600 - $225,900 USD Annual
• US5: $142,400 - $237,200 USD Annual
• US10: $149,200 - $248,500 USD Annual
• US15: $155,900 - $259,800 USD Annual
• US20: $162,700 - $271,100 USD Annual
• US30: $176,300 - $293,700 USD Annual

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Travel Percentage: 10%

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.