Stryker is a global medical technologies company that improves patient and healthcare outcomes. The Senior Manager, Enterprise Market Insights, serves as a strategic leader advancing the enterprise fact base and enabling data-driven decision-making. This role integrates competitive intelligence and market research to inform strategic planning, identifies risks and opportunities, and leads a team to enhance market insights capabilities across the organization.
Responsibilities:
- Leads a team of professionals, including hiring, coaching, performance management, and fostering an environment that promotes personal growth and development
- Evaluates the products, services, and markets of multiple competitors; advises on major competitors and monitors market activity and penetration
- Facilitates competitive intelligence deep dives and communicates enterprise-level market trends to an executive audience
- Designs and facilitates the annual Fact Base program; maintains a strong understanding of industry and competitor strategies to represent market shifts accurately
- Interprets business risks, potential threats, and opportunities using predictive modeling; advises on the relationship between financial, performance, and operational data
- Selects and applies appropriate market research methods; combines historical and current data; analyzes validity, reliability, and statistical significance of results
- Utilizes market research and third-party data to identify industry trends and shares knowledge of the regulatory environment and industry dynamics
- Guides teams through category definition and monitors market trends to identify sources of volume and strategic focus
- Works with business partners to uncover underlying business needs, scope high-value learning opportunities, and reframe requests to maximize learning value
- Proactively captures opportunities to influence business decisions; guides decision makers in incorporating research findings and recommendations into strategies while identifying future knowledge gaps
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree required
- 10+ years of professional work experience required
- 5+ years of market research experience preferred
- MBA preferred
- 2+ years of people management experience preferred