Product Support Specialist

Product Support Specialist - Manual & Robotic –

Location - Scotland Wide – Travel across Scotland will be expected

Position Summary:

To grow Stryker's Joint Replacement business by promoting Hip and Knee products to Orthopaedic Surgeons and optimising customer service. Growing existing accounts through technical expertise.

The Product Support Specialist – Manual & Robotic provides clinical product support to end users along with guidance and assistance during Mako surgical procedures.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

• Stryker Citizen always demonstrates outstanding ethics. Treats customers and employees with respect, representing the company in the best possible light.
• Knowledge: Communicates essential benefits of products and their clinical applications.
• Customer Service: Acts with integrity and reactively delivers on commitments within the required timescales.
• Business Planning: Constructs a basic business plan with input from mentor/manager. Daily, weekly, and monthly planning decided in partnership with mentor and RSM.
• Sales Skills: Develops rapport. Understands the importance of relationships in selling. Using open questioning techniques to ascertain customers' needs and has good working knowledge of key brands to open opportunities for the sales team to sell.
• Uses customer troubleshooting opportunities to grow and protect the business.
• Commercial Awareness: Understands that there are multiple stakeholders in the decision-making process and asks appropriate questions to identify the stakeholders.
• Discretion/Latitude/Impact: Work is closely supervised, and specific direction provided by more experienced staff. Keeps supervisor informed regularly on status of work. Failure to achieve results can normally be overcome without serious effect on revenue or budget.
• Achieve sales results in line with the annual sales target and KPI metrics

Planning, prioritizing, and executing of required activities and customer support.

Segmentation of the sales area and define a focus on the expansion of existing customers, as well as support for growing customers together with the Sales Team.

Support/maintenance of existing customers to maintain customer satisfaction/quality and collaboration with the Sales Team and other departments.

Development of short and medium-term strategies in collaboration with the customer to secure/strengthen the Stryker position.

Good communication and negotiation on an equal footing with customers, using reasonable and appropriate methods to ensure a profitable and sustainable relationship

Market observations to strengthen own position and constant analysis of responsible area

Address challenges with the customer and develop solutions (with support of RSM/Sales Team)

Participate in in-house meetings to discuss organizational, development,

and business issues and enhance relevant knowledge and skills

• Administration of IT based customer database/CRM-Tool
  
  

Clinical/Technical Expertise:

• Serve as front-line clinical and technical support to surgeons and hospital staff before, during and after surgical procedures.
• Train and guide surgeons and hospital staff in the use of Stryker’s Mako robot, including set-up, breakdown and related intra-operative activities to ensure precise and successful surgical outcomes.
• Use proprietary software to prepare pre-operative CT scans for assigned cases and assist surgeons in pre-operative implant planning, implant sizing and positioning.
• Troubleshoot and solve technical issues related to the robot independently or field escalation matters appropriately.
• Partner with Field Service team effectively to ensure technical issues are resolved and maintenance is delivered.
• Build knowledge of Stryker implants and instrumentation and mastery of the robot and its different applications in order to become a trusted “go-to” for all case coverage types (robotic and manual).

High Ethics & Integrity, we want you to win in the right way, that’s a fundamental building block of Stryker’s vision of being the most admired company in healthcare.

Qualifications/Experience:

• Educated to degree level is advantageous
• Experience in a related field is desirable
• Market knowledge and Medical Background preferred especially within Physiotherapy - MSK
  
  

United Kingdom Pay Ranges:

• United Kingdom: £40,500 - £67,600 GBP Annual
  
  

At Stryker, we believe transparency helps candidates make confident decisions about their next career step. Compensation is an important part of that process and we want to be clear about how pay is determined. The compensation information posted for this role may be presented as a salary range or a fixed amount depending on the role. In addition to base salary, this role may be eligible for incentive compensation (such as bonus and/or commissions where applicable), along with Stryker’s comprehensive benefits package.

If you’d like to learn more about the salary or the benefits associated with this role, your recruiter will be happy to walk you through the details as you progress through the hiring process.

Stryker is a global leader in medical technologies and, together with its customers, is driven to make healthcare better. The company 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.