**Strategic Alignment** Drive Strategic alignment across Neurovascular division to ensure all parts of the organization work effectively together to achieve common goals, synergize strengths, and link organizational strategy with commercial, market and functional insights, planning, and processes. Seek to align the organization's resources, and processes with its strategic direction to ensure all efforts are focused on the same objectives, leading to improved efficiency, effectiveness, and ultimately, better performance. Foster collaboration and a shared understanding of goals across functions division-wide Lead cross-functional performance optimization analyses (e.g. Six Sigma, Lean, root cause analyses) to drive division-wide alignment, direction, prioritization, and accountability to achieve divisional strategic goals. **Strategic Planning** Oversee the annual divisional strategy planning process, engaging cross-functional leaders to align on strategic priorities. Partner closely with Business Development and Strategy leadership to develop common framework and templates for articulation of NV strategies and 5-year strategic plan Partner with Corporate Business Intelligence and Finance to ensure the most current metrics and thinking are accurately reflected in strategic plans Execute divisional strategic planning process working closely with Executive Leadership Team (ELT) and Business Development and Strategy leadership team Drive communication of Strategic Plans throughout the organization Partner with Business Development and Strategy leadership to leverage market assessments of regional growth rates, market shares and/or opportunities to highlight greatest ROI for investments Deliver presentations to senior leadership, synthesizing divisional strategy work and key recommendations from teams across the organization. **Innovation** Partner closely with Emerging Business Opportunities team to assess market and drive divisional prioritization Source areas of future divisional innovation through relationships with start-ups, 3rd party sources and market intelligence **Business Development** Assist in mergers, acquisitions, licensing and co-marketing deals, ensuring that they are aligned with strategic, portfolio and innovation processes Assist in the preparation of new market entry playbooks (e.g. peripheral vascular, cardiovascular, etc.) to highlight the Make v. Buy ability of the division to expand global growth trajectory **Competitive & Business Intelligence** Assess global competitive intelligence analyses and drive associated divisional decision-making around competitive response Stay abreast of healthcare industry trends, emerging markets, and competitive dynamics to inform strategic direction. **Preferred Skills** **:** + Proven ability to exercise sound judgment, discretion, and independence in complex, high-impact decision-making environments. + Demonstrated success in influencing, collaborating with, and building trust among senior business leaders across diverse functions, geographies, and business units. + Skilled at navigating and driving alignment within highly matrixed, fast-paced organizations — including the ability to manage competing priorities and adapt to change. + Strong project and program management capabilities, with a track record of leading strategic initiatives from ideation through execution with minimal supervision. + Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills — both written and verbal — with the ability to distill complex ideas into clear, compelling presentations for executive audiences. + Adept at managing ambiguity, resolving conflicts, and leading through influence without formal authority. + Highly organized, detail-oriented, and disciplined in maintaining confidentiality, tracking deliverables, and following through to completion. + Comfortable leading and facilitating discussions with large, cross-functional groups; skilled at engaging stakeholders at all levels to drive consensus and action. **Education & special trainings:** + Bachelor’s degree required + MBA preferred **Qualifications & experience:** + 10+ years of work experience required + 7+ years medical device and market research experience preferred + 4+ years of people management experience highly 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) **Physical & mental requirements:** + Medium work: Exerting up to 50 pounds of force occasionally and/or up to 20 pounds of force constantly to move objects + Coordination of eye, hand and foot movement with an ability to grasp by hand and meet cognitive demands to include visual and auditory discrimination / memory, reading ability and memory retention ability. + Exercise discretion and independence when applying professional expertise + Must be able to manage time, projects, stress and conflict + Must possess strong interpersonal skills including written and oral communication + Must be able to bring tasks through to completion with minimal supervision + Must have the ability to prioritize work and keep detailed and confidential records + Must be able to communicate / present to large groups of people + Must possess unwavering ethics & integrity in a competitive and demanding 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. 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