Senior Manager, Communications (remote)

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. Key responsibilities span executive presentations, video and visual content, creative toolkits and strategic storytelling. Success requires 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.

What you will do

• Support and execute Group Communications strategies that advance business priorities, executive visibility, and enterprise objectives.

• Develop communication toolkits, best practices, and resources to drive consistency, clarity, and alignment across channels and stakeholders.

• Create 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.

What you need

Required:

• Bachelor's degree

• Minimum 10 years professional experience

Preferred:

• MBA

• Minimum 7 years communications experience

• Agency experience

• Experience supporting senior executives, leadershipteamsor group-level business priorities

• Experience developing executive presentations, creative campaigns, event branding, videocontentor scalable communication toolkits

• Experience leading cross-functional creative teams, agencypartnersor project-based teams without direct authority

Posted Date: 09/14/2026

This role will be posted for a minimum of 3 days.

United States of America 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

View the U.S. work location and transparency guide (https://view.stryker.com/viewer/fcd609f31e39eac44598615224ec7216?iid=69deda99678eb495e0710914#1) to find the pay range for your location.

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.