Lead Specialist, Sales Education

Work Flexibility: Hybrid or Onsite

Join Stryker’s Emergency Care Sales Education team and turn priorities into action. As a Lead Specialist, Sales Education, you will independently lead complex programs and projects that help our sales organization build the knowledge, skills, resources, and experiences needed to better serve customers and clinicians.

This is an individual contributor role for an experienced program leader who enjoys being close to the work. You will lead through expertise, influence, collaboration, and ownership, moving comfortably between program planning, project management, stakeholder coordination, event execution, and hands-on problem solving. Your work will help create scalable, repeatable education experiences that support Emergency Care’s sales organization and ultimately contribute to improved patient outcomes and clinician safety.

Work from the Kalamazoo, Michigan office Monday through Wednesday, with the ability to work from home Thursday and Friday. Travel approximately 25%, including field ride-alongs and offsite training, meeting, or product-launch support.

What You Will Do

• •Own complex Sales Education programs and strategic initiatives from concept through execution, translating business priorities into clear project plans, timelines, milestones, deliverables, and measures of success.
• •Lead multiple high-priority projects simultaneously, manage dependencies and competing priorities, anticipate risks, and proactively move deliverables forward.
• •Establish and maintain project management processes and tools, including Trello, to create visibility across priorities, owners, timelines, decisions, commitments, and next steps.
• •Improve and document existing processes, including repeatable approaches to onboarding and sales education programs, so the team can operate and scale more effectively.
• •Lead end-to-end execution of Sales Education programs, meetings, and events, coordinating agendas, speakers, stakeholders, communications, materials, logistics, onsite needs, and post-program follow-through.
• •Partner across Sales, Marketing, Clinical, Sales Leadership, and other business functions to establish clear roles, align stakeholders, resolve barriers, and keep work moving.
• •Translate strategic priorities into actionable plans while partnering with Sales Education colleagues responsible for curriculum and learning design.
• •Prepare clear, executive-ready communications and program updates that provide visibility into progress, decisions, risks, and next steps.
• •Identify opportunities for continuous improvement and build repeatable processes that strengthen the team’s ability to plan, track, execute, measure, and scale its work.
• •Step into emerging needs across strategic and tactical work, including supporting the execution of training sessions when needed.

Required Qualifications

• •Bachelor’s degree.
• •Minimum 4 years of relevant professional experience with demonstrated progression in responsibility, complexity, and ownership.
• •Experience independently leading complex programs, projects, or events from strategy through execution.
• •Experience managing multiple priorities, stakeholders, timelines, and deliverables simultaneously.
• •Experience creating structure, tracking commitments, and driving work through completion.
• •Experience using project management tools such as Trello or similar platforms to manage work and provide visibility across multiple workstreams.
• •Demonstrated experience solving problems, navigating ambiguity, anticipating needs, and taking independent action.
• •Demonstrated ability to collaborate across functions, influence without formal authority, and communicate with senior leaders.

Preferred Qualifications

• •Experience building or improving repeatable processes, documentation, project-management practices, or operational workflows.
• •Experience coordinating education, training, meetings, events, onboarding, or other multi-stakeholder programs.
• •Experience creating program plans, status updates, executive communications, and tools that provide visibility across complex work.
• •Experience supporting programs that require both detailed execution and senior-level stakeholder engagement.
• •Experience taking ownership of established or in-progress programs and improving them through continuous improvement.

United States of America Pay Ranges:

USN : $77,700 - $129,500 USD Annual

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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.

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