Associate Manager, CRM and Marketing Automation (remote)

As the Associate Manager, CRM & Marketing Automation, you will be responsible for developing, executing, and optimizing global customer engagement strategies that drive lead generation, nurturing, conversion, retention, and reactivation across the customer lifecycle throughout the US, Canada, Europe, the Middle East and Africa. This role serves as the business owner for CRM and marketing automation initiatives, partnering closely with marcom, marketing, sales, SDRs and digital teams to create seamless customer experiences. The individual will lead email marketing programs, customer journey orchestration, lead management processes, and marketing automation efforts while leveraging data and insights to improve business outcomes. While CRM and marketing automation are the primary focus areas, this role is also expected to contribute as a broader digital marketing leader, collaborating with subject matter experts across web, analytics, SEO/SEM, social media, and paid media to ensure digital initiatives work together as a connected ecosystem that supports business growth. While this role offers the flexibility to be fully remote, the individual must be located within the Eastern or Central time zones. What You Will Do Own and optimize the end-to-end customer lifecycle, from lead acquisition and conversion through retention and re-engagement, identifying opportunities to improve engagement at every stage. Design, build, and manage scalable customer journeys, automated nurture programs, lead scoring, segmentation, and lead routing using marketing automation platforms such as Marketo and Salesforce. Develop and optimize lead management and sales-readiness strategies, partnering with Marketing, MarCom, SDRs, and Sales to improve lead quality, qualification, follow-up, and conversion performance. Lead the strategy, development, execution, and optimization of email marketing campaigns, including personalization, A/B testing, experimentation, and ongoing optimization to improve engagement, conversion, and ROI. Partner across digital marketing channels and subject matter experts to create connected customer experiences, including web, paid media, events, SEO/SEM, social media, analytics, and other acquisition and engagement channels. Ensure strong CRM, data quality, segmentation, compliance, and governance practices, while driving consistent CRM adoption and scalable processes across customer-facing teams and global markets. Analyze customer journey and marketing funnel performance, tracking key metrics such as lead volume, engagement, conversion, retention, deliverability, click-through rates, and lead progression to identify opportunities for continuous improvement. Serve as a key CRM and customer journey expert within the Medical Digital Marketing team, translating data and insights into actionable recommendations, building executive-level dashboards and reporting, and helping advance digital marketing capabilities, technology, and best practices across the organization. What You Need Required: Bachelor’s degree Minimum 6 years work experience in Information Technology, CRM, Digital Marketing or other related area Minimum 4 years experience with email marketing, lead nurturing, marketing automation Minimum 3 years experience in Marketo Proficient in marketing automation technology Proficient in mobile/responsive e-mail design and development Knowledge of SEO/SEM and Adobe Analytics Hands on experience with HTML, Marketo and Salesforce CRM Preferred: Adobe Marketo Engage Certified Practitioner Professional Certification Adobe Marketo Engage Certified Practitioner Expert Certification United States of America Pay Ranges: USN: $89,300 - $148,800 USD Annual US5: $93,800 - $156,200 USD Annual US10: $98,200 - $163,700 USD Annual US15: $102,700 - $171,100 USD Annual US20: $107,200 - $178,600 USD Annual US30: $116,100 - $193,400 USD Annual View the U.S. work location and transparency guide to find the pay range for your location. 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. #J-18808-Ljbffr Stryker