Responsibilities
- Work directly with Customer Solutions and multiple business unit division counsel.
- Under minimal supervision, review and negotiate commercial contracts and establish business relationships with our customers/partners.
- Draft, edit, review, and negotiate complex agreements with minimal supervision, managing business and legal risk while effectively supporting our internal and external customers in a timely and fast-paced environment.
- Provide excellent, time-sensitive, solutions-oriented, strategic contracting support to internal and external stakeholders.
- Exhibit solid negotiation skills, including comfort in negotiating contract terms with customers.
- Exhibit the ability to influence without authority.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with sales, finance, operations, and attorney stakeholders across the organization (as applicable).
- Serve as a contracting and negotiating expert to other areas within the organization, as required.
- Exercise excellent judgment in identifying and escalating issues to management and/or for legal review in a timely manner.
- Maintain a comprehensive knowledge of Stryker’s product lines, competitive environment, and customers to better support functional initiatives and provide recommendations to internal stakeholders.
- Monitor and track the status of contract-related matters and proactively provide updates as requested.
- Identify system or process improvements that increase efficiency, compliance, or reduce cost to the Business.
- Serve as a liaison between Stryker business units and Legal, fostering two-way communication of evolving business needs, challenges, and opportunities.
- Manage and lead complex healthcare agreement negotiations, ensuring compliance with relevant regulations, including fraud and abuse laws, company policies, and anticompetition laws.
Requirements
- 2+ years of work experience
- Bachelor’s Degree preferred
- 2+ years of work experience with contracts
Nice to Have
- 2+ years of work experience working in HealthCare contracts
- Paralegal certification
- Experience working with the Uniform Commercial Code
- Experience drafting, redlining, and reviewing documentation
- Experience with direct contract negotiations
- Expertise with MS Office products
- Salesforce experience
Work Arrangement
Remote (Worldwide)
Team
Structure: Partners with Customer Solutions and multiple business unit division counsel
Additional Information
- Travel Percentage: 10%
- 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.
