Lead Contract Specialist (Remote)

Stryker • Mahwah, NJ • 9h ago

What you will do:

As the Lead Contract Specialist , you will play a critical role in enabling commercial growth while protecting the company's legal and business interests. You'll serve as a trusted contracting partner to sales leadership and legal counsel, owning complex agreements from initial drafting through negotiation and execution across your assigned business and/or geographic region.

Working cross-functionally with Legal, Sales, Finance, and Operations, you will guide internal stakeholders through high-impact contracting decisions, identify and mitigate legal and business risk, and deliver practical, solutions-oriented outcomes in a fast-paced environment. In this role, you'll exercise sound judgment, influence without authority, and represent Stryker professionally in all internal and external engagements.

You will also act as a subject-matter expert and mentor within the contracting team, supporting the development of less-experienced professionals while helping to elevate contracting best practices across the organization.

Draft, edit, review, and negotiate complex agreements with minimal supervision, in a manner that manages business and legal risk while effectively supporting our internal and external customers in a timely manner in a 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;

Build and maintain strong relationships with sales, finance, operations, and attorney stakeholders across the decentralized organization (as applicable);

Serve as a contracting and negotiating expert to other areas within the organization, as required;

Supervise and set direction for other Contract Specialists (if applicable).

Lead and mentor less-experienced contracting professionals, including provision of subject matter expertise on complex contracting issues;

Exercise excellent judgment in identifying and escalating issues to management and/or for legal review in a timely manner;

Maintains 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 status of contract-related matter and proactively provide updates as requested.

What you'll need

Required

A Bachelor's Degree is required for this role, however in lieu of a degree, an additional 6 years of work experience will be considered.

4+ years of work experience with contracts

4+ years of experience drafting and reviewing documentation

3+ years of experience with direct contract negotiations

Preferred

3+ years of work experience working in healthcare contracts?

Paralegal certification strongly preferred

Experience working with the Uniform Commercial Code is strongly preferred

Salesforce experience

$89,300 - $193,400 salary plus bonus eligible + benefits. Actual minimum and maximum may vary based on location. Individual pay is based on skills, experience, and other relevant factors.

Posted Date: 01/21/2026

This role will be posted for a minimum of 3 days.

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.

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.

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