Manager, Market Insights - Remote

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

Stryker is one of the world’s leading medical technology companies and, together with its customers, is driven to make healthcare better. We offer innovative products and services in Orthopaedics, Medical and Surgical, and Neurotechnology and Spine that help improve patient and hospital outcomes. We are proud to be named one of the World’s Best Workplaces! For more information, visit: www.stryker.com

Work Flexibility

• Remote – Role allows you to work the majority to 100% of time from an alternate workplace. These roles could have travel expectations, and you must work within the country of the job requisition location.

• Field-based – You can expect to regularly work a majority to 100% of time at customer facilities and has a set territory or expectation to travel within a set boundary. Almost all sales roles would likely be qualified as field-based.

• Onsite – Role is 100% located at a Stryker facility. Some ad hoc flexibility may be available depending on role, level, and job requirements. Manufacturing roles and any role that requires physical presence at the office would qualify under this category.

• Hybrid – You can expect to regularly work in both an alternate workplace and a Stryker facility. Roles that are partially remote or co-located would qualify as hybrid, and the expectation to be onsite would be defined and agreed upon by your manager/supervisor.