Senior Manager, Communications (remote)

About the role

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.

Responsibilities

• Support and execute Group Communications strategies that advance business priorities, executive visibility, and enterprise objectives.
• Create communication toolkits, best practices, and resources to drive consistency, clarity, and alignment across channels and stakeholders.
• Develop 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.

Requirements

• 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

Qualifications

What You Will Do

• Support and execute Group Communications strategies that advance business priorities, executive visibility, and enterprise objectives.
• Create communication toolkits, best practices, and resources to drive consistency, clarity, and alignment across channels and stakeholders.
• Develop 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.

Skills

What You Need

• Strong business judgment
• Executive presence
• Exceptional writing and presentation skills
• The ability to influence across a complex, matrixed organization while translating strategy into action

Benefits

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
• Tobacco cessation program

Pay

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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