Associate Manager, Trade Shows and Customer Events (Remote) - Remote Staffing : Job Details

As an Associate Manager, Marketing Tradeshows and Customer Events at Stryker, you will lead our tradeshow program and customer event strategy, bringing our brand and innovations to life on a national stage. In this role, you will own the planning and execution of select tradeshows and customer experiences, ensuring every interaction reflects Stryker's commitment to excellence. You will collaborate across marketing, sales, and other divisions to craft compelling messaging, deliver memorable customer engagement, and maximize the impact of every event. This is your opportunity to combine strategic marketing with hands-on leadership, driving visibility, growth, and customer connections for Stryker's Joint Replacement Division.

What You Will Do

• Lead the planning, development, and execution of tradeshows and customer events, ensuring alignment with overall marketing strategies.
• Assess competitive insights and adjust tradeshow and event strategies, messaging, and tactics to maximize market impact.
• Manage event logistics, budgets, as well as vendor and tradeshow association relationships, including coordinating cross-divisional alignment.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to create event and marketing communication strategies that strengthen customer relationships and drive product adoption.
• Submit and manage sponsorship and medical education grants that support tradeshows and comply with corporate compliance policies. Build collaborative relationships with legal, regulatory, and compliance counterparts.
• Track, measure, and analyze event and marketing performance, including ROI from tradeshows and customer engagement initiatives.
• Mentor and influence team members and cross-functional partners, fostering collaboration and driving results without direct authority.
• Ability to travel 30% of the time and work across time zones.

What You Need

• Required: Bachelor's degree + 6+ years of professional work experience + Demonstrated experience planning, executing, and managing tradeshows or large-scale events.
• Preferred: Experience leading tradeshows within the medical device or healthcare industry.

$87,600 - $186,700 salary plus bonus eligible + benefits. Individual pay is based on skills, experience, and other relevant factors. This role will be posted for a minimum of 3 days. 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.