National Medical Education Associate Manager - On-site

The Associate Medical Education Manager plays a key role in creating and delivering impactful educational programs that support healthcare professionals, strengthen customer relationships, and advance the Trauma & Extremities business. This position is responsible for the strategy, planning, coordination, and execution of customer-facing medical education initiatives that enhance product knowledge, clinical expertise, and engagement across the orthopedic trauma community.

This position requires the selected candidate to be on-site in Mahwah, NJ.

What you will do:

• Lead the full lifecycle planning and execution of national medical education programs, including cadaveric labs, surgeon education events, workshops, professional education meetings, and large-scale educational events.
• Manage all aspects of program and event execution from strategic kickoff and planning through onsite leadership, attendee experience management, and post-program reconciliation.
• Responsible for developing and managing customer-facing educational strategy.
• Collaborate with key stakeholders and lead cross-functional teams to deliver high-impact educational events and programs.
• Negotiate with third-party vendors, venues, hotels, travel providers, and event partners to maximize value and cost savings.
• Coordinate program design, educational objectives, and event logistics with faculty and key stakeholders.
• Ensure all educational content, presentations, and meeting materials are reviewed and approved through established Compliance and Legal processes prior to program execution.
• Manage national education program budgets, event budgets, expense tracking, forecasting, invoice processing, and financial reconciliation activities.
• Coordinate complex travel, lodging, venue, catering, transportation, and onsite logistics for surgeon faculty, healthcare professionals, and internal commercial teams in partnership with approved travel agencies and vendors.
• Plan and execute multiple concurrent national meetings, training programs, workshops, conferences, and educational events while maintaining exceptional attention to detail and stakeholder satisfaction.
• Develop a network of key opinion leaders (KOLs) to support platform offerings and assist in developing communication strategies for target customer audiences.
• Collaborate with key opinion leaders to design, plan, and facilitate educational events that elevate the brand within the orthopedic community.
• Demonstrate technical expertise to facilitate HCP medical education programs, including agenda development, speaker coordination, content management, and onsite event leadership.
• Recommend and implement plans for medical education commercialization, voice-of-customer initiatives, and onsite educational programs. Develop key relationships with industry thought leaders, customer organizations, institutions, and event stakeholders in collaboration with marketing leaders.
• Engage with thought leaders across the industry to continuously enhance and expand educational offerings as Orthopedic Trauma evolves.
• Lead the creation of Medical Education programs and events that align with strategic plans and business objectives. Collaborate with marketing leaders to support business priorities and new product launches.
• Develop metrics to analyze and evaluate the effectiveness of educational programs, events, delivery methods, costs, attendee engagement, and outcomes.
• Engage key stakeholders to ensure appropriate educational program utilization and successful event outcomes.
• Define performance criteria used for evaluating business trends, program effectiveness, event success, and organizational impact.
• Prepare and review charts, graphs, tables, and other business performance tools for quarterly and annual leadership presentations.
• Maintain awareness of emerging trends in medical education, adult learning, event management, and instructional design, and adjust programs accordingly.
• Manage current educational resources and develop new tools, platforms, and event experiences for product training programs and workshops to enhance educational quality and engagement.
• Partner with marketing communications to leverage social media, third-party applications, email campaigns, and other channels to promote educational programs and events.
• Preferred experience includes large-scale event planning, conference management, meeting planning, travel logistics and planning, faculty engagement, venue selection, contract negotiation, attendee management, and execution of complex national educational events.

What you will need:

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree required
• 6+ years of work experience required

Preferred:

• MBA preferred
• Medical device, Medical Education, Pharma or relevant experience preferred
• Preferred experience in event planning, conference management, hospitality, meeting planning, corporate events, trade shows, customer engagement programs, or large-scale educational events.
• Experience planning and executing complex, high-touch events involving travel logistics, venue management, vendor coordination, budget management, attendee experience, and onsite event leadership is strongly preferred.
• Backgrounds in hospitality management, conference services, event marketing, meeting planning, or destination management preferred

United States of America Pay Ranges:

• US20 : $107,200 - $178,600 USD Annual

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.