• Lead Contract Specialist

    Stryker (Irvine, CA)


    As a Lead Contract Specialist, you will partner closely with our Inari Division Counsel to support contracting opportunities. You will work within the framework of sales, contracting, legal, finance, and sales operations strategies, legal and administrative regulations, and company policies and procedures to guide internal stakeholders through the decision-making process and contracting experience.

     

    You will identify business and legal risks, propose creative solutions for risk mitigation, escalate legal review and resolution of legal issues related to contracts, and professionally and solutions-oriented represent Stryker’s interests to our internal and external stakeholders and customers.

    What you will do:

    + 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.

     

    What you’ll need

    Required

    + 4+ years of work experience

    + Bachelor’s Degree

    + 2+ years of work experience with contracts

    Preferred

    + 2+ years of work experience working in Health Care contracts

    + ​Paralegal certification

    + Experience working with Uniform Commercial Code

    + Experience drafting, redline reviewing documentation

    + Experience with direct contract negotiations

    + Expertise with MS office products

    + Salesforce experience

     

    $87,600 - $186,700 salary plus bonus eligible + benefits. . Individual pay is based on skills, experience, and other relevant factors.

     

    Posted on December 9th, 2025

     

    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.