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

Strong business judgment, executive presence, exceptional writing and presentation skills, and 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 and tobacco cessation program.

Financial benefits

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.

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