Marketing Operations Project Lead
Stryker
Summary
The Marketing Operations Project Lead drives the processes, systems and workflows that enable the global Customer Solutions Marketing Team to move complex, enterprise-level marketing collateral from intake through approval and delivery. This highly specialized individual contributor will help simplify cross-divisional workflows, strengthen governance and adoption, and enable teams across Stryker to collaborate efficiently on marketing materials that can span multiple businesses, products and functions.
Job description
What you will do
- Project and workflow management: Manage US and OUS marketing requests from intake through delivery, establishing timelines, resources, milestones and clear ownership.
- Workfront: Serve as a key owner/user of the Customer Solutions Workfront instance, ensuring consistent adoption and effective workflows. Maintain project information in Workfront, help route requests and ensure project records are accurate and current.
- Team support: Assist Marketing Team members with project setup, documentation, timelines and workflow questions.
- Process documentation and improvement: Create and maintain templates, guides, reviewer matrix and standard operating procedures for Customer Solutions Workfront workflows. Identify workflow gaps, obstacles and inefficiencies and implement solutions that improve speed, collaboration and execution.
- Content and asset management: Maintain organization of marketing assets within digital asset management systems. Set up and maintain Highspot integration from the DAM for Customer Solutions marketing assets.
- Reporting and insights: Build KPI reporting and dashboards that provide visibility into workload, project status and operational performance.
- Stakeholder management: Partner with Marketing, Corporate Workfront Marketing Operations, Corporate Regulatory and Legal, Customer Solutions Legal and other BU functional partners, as needed, to clarify requirements, priorities and deliverables.
- Training and adoption: Develop training and resources that drive effective use of the Workfront Customer Solutions instance.
- Risk and compliance: Ensure appropriate review processes, documentation and governance are incorporated into marketing workflows.
What you need
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree.
- Minimum 4 years of work experience.
- Demonstrated experience with workflow or project-management platforms, such as Workfront.
- Demonstrated proficiency with Microsoft Excel, Word and PowerPoint.
- Strong organizational, project-management, presentation and stakeholder-communication skills.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and drive work across cross-functional teams.
- Ability to influence stakeholders and advance work without direct organizational authority.
- Ability to understand and work within complex, cross-divisional procedures and policies.
- Strong analytical skills with experience using operational metrics to identify opportunities for improvement.
Preferred Qualifications
- Minimum 2 years of project management, marketing operations or content management experience.
- PMP certification.
- Medical device industry experience
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree
- Minimum 4 years of work experience
- Demonstrated experience with workflow or project-management platforms, such as Workfront
- Demonstrated proficiency with Microsoft Excel, Word and PowerPoint
- Strong organizational, project-management, presentation and stakeholder-communication skills
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and drive work across cross-functional teams
- Ability to influence stakeholders and advance work without direct organizational authority
- Ability to understand and work within complex, cross-divisional procedures and policies
- Strong analytical skills with experience using operational metrics to identify opportunities for improvement
- Minimum 2 years of project management, marketing operations or content management experience
- PMP certification
- Medical device industry experience
Company overview
Stryker is a global leader in medical technology, founded in 1941 by Dr. Homer Stryker and headquartered in Kalamazoo, Michigan. As one of the world's premier medical device companies, Stryker operates across three major business segments: Medical and Surgical Equipment, Orthopaedics and Spine, and Neurotechnology. The company impacts more than 150 million patients annually through its innovative products and services sold in over 75 countries worldwide. With approximately 53,000 employees globally and annual sales of $22.6 billion in 2024, Stryker maintains a strong commitment to research and development, investing $1.5 billion in R&D annually. The company's diverse portfolio includes surgical instruments, orthopedic implants, neurovascular devices, endoscopic systems, and advanced digital healthcare solutions. Stryker is recognized for its Mako robotic-assisted surgery systems and has been consistently ranked as one of Fortune's World's Best Workplaces for eight consecutive years, demonstrating its commitment to corporate culture and employee development.