Senior Product Manager-Upstream Marketing Lead

Role Overview

The Senior Product Manager will be the Upstream Marketing lead and core team representative for defined New Product Development programs. The role will create insight-driven strategies, be execution oriented, and work effectively with stakeholders.

What You Will Do

Collaborate with research and development to establish unmet needs, translate to customer requirements and design specifications, and assist in validation activities. Conduct market research to quantify the size of the addressable market, build market model, and assess financial implications of new product launches.

Why It Might Be a Fit

Strong leadership skills, able to successfully define business objectives, strategies, tactics, and coordinate activities of cross functional teams to achieve set goals. Strong strategic development skills, able to analyze complex data and identify key insights, opportunities, and risks.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Business, Medicine, or related field required. MBA or relevant advanced degree preferred.
• Strong leadership skills, able successfully define business objectives, strategies, tactics, and coordinate activities of cross functional teams to achieve set goals.
• Strong strategic development skills, able to analyze complex data and identify key insights, opportunities, and risks.
• Strong organization and management skills, able to drive performance and consistently deliver on commitments.
• Able to translate VOC and user needs into product requirements and commercial claims
• Sufficient financial fluency to build and defend a revenue forecast with commercial trade-offs
• Comfortable making commercial decisions at core team meetings.
• Entrepreneurial work ethic, self-starter, able to work independently as well as collaboratively with various internal and external customers.
• Familiar with global medical devices and FDA, CE regulatory submission requirements
• Ability to develop expertise in assigned field – deep understanding of customer needs, application of products and technology
• Strong communication, interpersonal, and presentation skills
• Computer skills to include Power Point, Excel and Outlook
• Minimum of 8+ years in health care field in relevant roles (e.g. R&D, Sales, Marketing)
• Minimum of 3+ years of product management / upstream marketing in medical devices and new product development experience required
• Have shown success in collaborating and managing a multi-functional team and complex projects

Benefits

• Comprehensive Medical (includes Prescription Drug)
• Dental
• Vision
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• 401(k) with matching company contribution
• Discretionary time off
• Paid sick time
• Stock purchase plan
• Tuition reimbursement
• Parental leave
• Short-term and long-term disability
• Life insurance
• Accidental death & dismemberment insurance
• Paid holidays
• Employee referral bonuses
• Employee discounts

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