Join Stryker’s Acute Care team and take responsibility for one of Medical’s most visible product portfolios across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. As Associate Brand Manager, Patient Care, you will combine strategic brand management with hands-on execution, using market and commercial insights to identify growth opportunities and support the continued adoption of our Patient Care bed portfolio.

The Role

Lead the Patient Care bed brand across EMEA, supporting the strategic direction and execution of initiatives designed to drive portfolio growth, adoption, and differentiation. Develop annual marketing plans and longer-term portfolio roadmaps in partnership with regional and local marketing teams, aligned with global strategy and growth, profitability, and market share objectives. Analyse business performance, total addressable market, margins, pipeline, and market opportunities to identify growth priorities and provide recommendations to senior leadership. Create scalable marketing campaigns, tools, assets, and best practices that regional teams can adapt to their local markets. Partner with regional product managers, local marketing teams, sales leaders, and sales teams to respond to market needs and translate field insights into actionable portfolio initiatives. Support regional product lifecycle activities, including product launches, phase-in and phase-out activities, positioning, messaging, and pricing. Develop customer engagement and education initiatives with Marketing and Education partners, including events, congresses, training programs, and other scalable EMEA activities. Present portfolio strategy, product information, and commercial priorities to internal and external audiences, including presentations to sales groups of approximately 60 people.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree.
• Minimum 6 years of professional experience.
• Professional experience within a B2B environment.
• Fluency in English, additional local language is a plus.

Preferred

• MBA.
• Experience in medical devices, healthcare, or B2B marketing.
• Experience developing marketing plans and measuring marketing performance.
• Experience using Microsoft Office, including Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.

Additional Information

Contract: Fixed-term maternity cover, currently expected to run until approximately August/September 2027. Territory: Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA). Travel: Travel requirements during the fixed-term assignment may vary. The broader scope of the position can involve approximately 60% travel across EMEA, with approximately one trip to the United States per year. This is an individual contributor position with no direct reports. You will work within a geographically distributed EMEA team and collaborate closely with Patient Handling, regional product managers, local marketers, sales teams, sales managers, and Education partners.

Salary Information

Netherlands Pay Ranges: €62.000 - €115.300 EUR Annual At Stryker, we believe transparency helps candidates make confident decisions about their next career step. Compensation is an important part of that process and we want to be clear about how pay is determined. The compensation information posted for this role may be presented as a salary range or a fixed amount depending on the role. In addition to base salary, this role may be eligible for incentive compensation (such as bonus and/or commissions where applicable), along with Stryker’s comprehensive benefits package. If you’d like to learn more about the salary or the benefits associated with this role, your recruiter will be happy to walk you through the details as you progress through the hiring process. Stryker is a global leader in medical technologies and, together with its customers, is driven to make healthcare better. The company 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.