Job details
Essential duties & responsibilities:
Strategic Communications and Reputation Management:
- Develops and implements communications strategies aligned with divisional goals to promote and protect Stryker’s business and reputation among internal and external audiences.
- Brings external insights into the business, shapes and refines strategies to enhance communications outcomes.
- Identifies gaps and implements processes to improve communications effectiveness.
- Shares communications best practices with businesses, including communications strategies and plans drive greater consistency and effectiveness.
- Supports the company’s efforts to identify and manage reputational issues in the business.
- Stays connected to company-level crisis management team, plans and protocols.
- Leads crisis communications response in the event of issues and crises.
- Implements crisis management tools and best practices and identify opportunities for evolving.
Marketing Communications, External engagement & PR
- Enables business growth by driving therapy and patient awareness initiatives and strong product communications.
- Integrates PR and media strategy as a commercial enabler in partnership with business leaders, particularly within MedTech and healthcare.
- Manages media relationships and external inquiries.
- Leads divisional campaigns targeted at external audiences in collaboration with Marketing.
- Builds and sustains a consistent brand voice across corporate, business, and talent communications.
- Develops high-quality communication assets including press releases, thought leadership, executive content, blogs, and campaign copy.
- Strengthens executive visibility through industry forums, media engagement, and strategic speaking opportunities.
Internal Communications:
- Crafts and delivers compelling internal messaging that drives employee engagement around divisional strategy, vision, leadership updates, and organizational shifts.
- Leads and supports key internal forums including town halls, leadership meetings, annual sales meetings, strategic planning sessions, and global leadership visits.
- Develops, maintains, and optimizes internal communications channels, ensuring strong connectivity with enterprise-wide messaging.
- Partners with senior leadership to translate strategy into clear, actionable communication that aligns teams and reinforces culture.
- Develop, maintain and optimize internal channels and ensure connectivity to rest of the company.
Employer Branding
- Develops and executes a structured employer branding roadmap aligned with talent strategy and company culture.
- Strengthens presence across LinkedIn, Glassdoor, and other talent platforms; partners with HR on GPTW and employer recognition initiatives.
- Supports campus engagement and talent pipeline programs through targeted brand-building efforts.
- Partners with HR and business leaders to shape narratives that reinforce culture, employee advocacy, DE&I initiatives, and workplace achievements.
- Drives campaigns that showcase employee stories, career progression, and organizational impact.
Digital Communications & Digital Marketing
- Lead the digital communications strategy across web, social media, and internal digital platforms.
- Manage content calendars, digital storytelling, and multimedia assets to enhance engagement.
- Manage Stryker India and Patient websites.
- Work with analytics tools to measure channel effectiveness and optimize content performance.
- Oversee digital marketing campaigns for key initiatives as applicable (events, product updates, employer branding, leadership visibility etc.).
Stakeholder Engagement and operating excellence
- Collaborates with commercial, cross-functional teams and global communications team to implement strategic communications programs aligned with divisional and business goals.
- Shapes messaging and other content for senior leaders for internal and external activities.
- Writes and edits high-impact content for various internal and external channels, such as newsletters, messages from VP/GMs, townhall presentations.
- Continuously optimizes strategies based on insights and feedback.
- Works collaboratively with communications leads in and outside of APAC to build communications capabilities and advance opportunities that impact business goals.
- Manages third party communication consultants and agency partners as needed.
- Holds excellent standards on quality of work and thinking.
- Works independently with resourcefulness and superb project management skills.
- Brings great energy to the work and inspires trust and credibility among teams and wider stakeholders.
Team management
- Leads, coaches, and develops a high-performing communications team of two direct reports, setting clear priorities, performance expectations, and growth plans aligned with business objectives.
- Provides strategic direction while empowering team members with ownership, ensuring strong execution, accountability, and continuous capability building.
- Fosters a collaborative, high-trust team culture and optimizes workload planning, resource allocation, and agency partnerships to deliver impact at scale.
Qualifications & experience:
- 10+ years of relevant work experience
- Previous People Management experience
- Excellent storytelling, writing, and presentation skills
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Ability to manage multiple projects while delivering on established timelines
- Ability to be persuasive in the absence of organizational authority
- Demonstrated proficiency in Microsoft Office (Excel, Word & PowerPoint)
- Has experience working in regional settings preferred
- Has experience working in multi-national settings preferred
- Travel Percentage: 20%
