
Trauma Sales Representative - Chicago, IL
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Job overview
Stryker is hiring Trauma Sales Representatives for three Chicago-area territories. The role focuses on selling trauma products and supporting surgeons and healthcare professionals through product advice, training, and operating or emergency room consultations. Representatives manage inventory and may be called in nights, weekends, and holidays. The position is 100% commission and is eligible for bonuses and benefits.
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Stryker
Position Title: Trauma Sales Representative x 3!
Locations : We have 3 openings across multiple areas of Chicago!
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Position 1: Downtown Chicago (needs to live downtown or be open to relocate there)
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Position 2: Southern Chicago- NW Indiana area, Naperville, Elmhurst (needs to live in the downtown area or in the southern burbs to NW Indiana or be open to relocate there)
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Position 3: Northern Chicago- Park Ridge, Elgin, Lake Forest (needs to live in the Northern suburbs or be open to relocate there)
Schedule & On-Call Requirements
This position requires an on-call schedule, including nights, weekends, and holidays, to support trauma cases as they arise. While this level of availability is essential for the role, we understand it may not be suitable for every candidate. Candidates who choose not to pursue this position due to the on-call demands will not be negatively evaluated or penalized in future opportunities with our organization.
Please see the link below for more information:
Why I am Rebuilding Lives (https://player.vimeo.com/video/327295297)
What you will do
As a Trauma Sales Representative, you work with a high degree of intensity and commitment to sell Stryker Trauma products that meet our customers’ needs. You are responsible for becoming the resident trauma expert as you work with a sophisticated audience of surgeons and healthcare professionals. You live your work, feeding off the extreme demands of trauma, not counting hours but rather lives impacted. A person who is energized by chaos, you organize your materials and sort possible solutions quickly during operating/emergency room consultations. You take great pride in meticulously managing and maintaining your inventory of products and are prepared to assist a customer whenever the need arises. Your knowledge not only of your own products, but of competitors’ offerings, builds credibility with surgeons. They trust you to provide advice and training on products and tools used to save lives. As a Trauma Sales Representative who does what is necessary and live out your mission to change lives by selling Stryker products that are making healthcare better.
What you need
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Bachelor’s Degree or 4+ years experience in a clinical healthcare or sales role (or a combination of the two)
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No sales experience required
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Knowledge of principles and methods for showing, promoting, and selling products or services, including marketing strategy and tactics, product demonstration, sales techniques, and sales control systems
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Excellent organizational skills and knowledge in the use of current office technologies (MS Office suite, databases, etc.)
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Experience in building and maintaining relationships (with surgeons & hospitals in respective areas would be beneficial)
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Must be comfortable in emergency/operating room environments
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Ability to participate in and attend sales meetings and professional association meetings outside regular business hours, as required
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Must adhere to compliance and the principles of responsibility (AdvaMed) by maintaining the privacy and confidentiality of information, protecting the assets of the organization, acting with ethics and integrity, reporting non-compliance, and adhering to applicable federal, state and local laws and regulations, accreditation and licenser requirements, and Company’s policies and procedures
This role is 100% commission and is eligible for bonuses + 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 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. Stryker is an EO employer – M/F/Veteran/Disability.
How this job compares
Set against the 1,250 open Medical Device Sales jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 13, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- Illinois median$76–102K/yr24 salary ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 38 open Medical Device Sales jobs in Illinois and 1,250 across the US. 4% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Illinois
- Stryker (this employer)13 open
- Abbott3 open
- Integra LifeSciences3 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 4 years of experience; Medical Device Sales postings that state a minimum ask for 3 years at the median (1,045 postings).
- Education
- 462 of the 1,250 open Medical Device Sales jobs (37%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 13, 2026. Figures based on too few postings are left out.
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