Strategic Sales Manager - Southwest - Trauma
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Stryker
Little Rock, AR, US
Summary
The Strategic Sales Manager leads GPO and IDN contract strategy and pricing to drive sales, profit, and market share. They act as a key link between Customer Solutions and cross-functional teams to ensure a unified customer experience and deliver on strategic goals.
Job Description
Work Flexibility: Field-based
Department: Customer Solutions - we’re allies for growth working through coordination, driving innovation and creating lasting value.
Brief Description of role:
The Strategic Sales Manager leads GPO and IDN contract strategy, setting pricing to drive sales, boost profits and protect market share. As a key link between Customer Solutions and the business, they align cross-functional teams - sales, marketing, finance - to deliver on strategic goals and ensure a unified customer experience.
What we want in a candidate:
- Enterprise thinker that shapes and leads holistic business growth strategies.
- Intentional collaborator that quickly builds trusted relationships with key partners.
- Trusted advisor that uses data to align customer needs with program value.
- Relationship builder that positively contributes to a best-in-class strategic sales team culture.
- Lead with insights, simplify the buying journey, protect pricing, and unlock growth.
Reasons why someone would want this role:
- High-impact team focused on strategic negotiations, data insights, and solving complex challenges.
- Build skills and broaden your network by collaborating across teams like Sales, Marketing, Legal, and Finance.
- Lead strategic initiatives that shape pricing and contract strategies to drive long-term business growth.
- Work directly with enterprise customers to tailor solutions and stay ahead of evolving healthcare trends.
- Develop expertise in pricing, finance, and negotiation to position yourself as a leader and drive value.
Education
- Bachelor’s degree required.
- MBA or advanced degree preferred.
Qualifications & Experience
- 8+ years related sales and/or marketing experience required.
- Medical marketing and/or related field sales/GPO and IDN sales management preferred.
- Proven ability to develop strategies that complement and contribute to overall business objectives.
- Demonstrated ability to develop both internal and external long-term customer relationships.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Excellent interpersonal skills inclusive of the ability to work with diverse groups.
- Demonstrated excellence in presentation creation and delivery skills.
- Proven ability to analyze sales data from a variety of sources.
- Ideally, candidate will live within the territory, although not required.
United States of America Pay Ranges:
- USN: $167,100 - $278,500 USD Annual
- US5: $175,500 - $292,400 USD Annual
- US10: $183,800 - $306,400 USD Annual
- US15: $192,200 - $320,300 USD Annual
- US20: $200,500 - $334,200 USD Annual
- US30: $217,200 - $362,100 USD Annual
View the U.S. work location and transparency guide to find the pay range for your location.
Travel Percentage: 30%
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.
Stryker Corporation will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information.
Stryker is driven to work together with our customers to make healthcare better. Employees and new hires in sales and field roles that require access to customer accounts as a function of the job may be required, depending on customer requirements, to obtain the COVID-19 vaccination as an essential function of their role.
Stryker is a global leader in medical technologies and, together with our customers, we are driven to make healthcare better. We offer innovative products and services in MedSurg, Neurotechnology and Orthopaedics that help improve patient and healthcare outcomes. Alongside its customers around the world, Stryker impacts more than 150 million patients annually. More information is available at stryker.com and careers.stryker.com.
Facts:
● 2025 Sales: $25.1 billion
● Industry: Medical Instruments & Supplies
● Employees: 56,000 worldwide
● $1.6 billion spent on research and development in 2025
● 14,600 patents owned globally in 2025
● Products sold in 61 countries
● Fortune 500 Company
● 10 consecutive years as one a World's Best Workplace
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Company size
10,001+ employees
Industry
Medical Equipment Manufacturing
Org type
Public Company
Headquarters
Kalamazoo, MI
Stryker is a global leader in medical technologies and, together with our customers, we are driven to make healthcare better. We offer innovative products and services in MedSurg, Neurotechnology and Orthopaedics that help improve patient and healthcare outcomes. Alongside its customers around the world, Stryker impacts more than 150 million patients annually. More information is available at stryker.com and careers.stryker.com.
Facts:
● 2025 Sales: $25.1 billion
● Industry: Medical Instruments & Supplies
● Employees: 56,000 worldwide
● $1.6 billion spent on research and development in 2025
● 14,600 patents owned globally in 2025
● Products sold in 61 countries
● Fortune 500 Company
● 10 consecutive years as one a World's Best Workplace
Stryker’s social media community guidelines: https://www.stryker.com/content/m/legal/social-media-community-guidelines/en/index.html
Notice Regarding Employee Conduct on Facebook/LinkedIn
Meta/LinkedIn does not permit employers to verify or validate “employees” in the (META: “Works at” LinkedIn: “Experience”) section of users’ profiles. Please be aware that the views expressed by individuals on their personal accounts and do not necessarily represent the views of our company. If you encounter any issues with a person claiming to be our employee, we recommend using the “Report Profile” feature. If you’d like to report concerns to our Ethics Hotline, you may do so at: https://app.convercent.com/en-us/LandingPage/b6bb4e84-9fcb-ea11-a974-000d3ab9f296
Company size
10,001+ employees
Industry
Medical Equipment Manufacturing
Org type
Public Company
Headquarters
Kalamazoo, MI