Product Manager

DESCRIPTION

What makes this opportunity so BIG:

You will work with various functions to develop new products and manage commercially available products via collaboration with Regional counterparts, R&D, Regulatory, Clinical, and Business Development.

Here’s what you’ll be doing:

Product Strategy, New Product Development & Product Life-cycle Management

• Support product development decisions for current and future products.

• Generate business plans, market requirements documents, presentations and supporting materials to align all functional groups behind a common product vision.

• Lead global portfolio commercialization and planning within the category – understanding and analyzing competitive landscape

• Drive claims development for products

• Understand patient experience with product portfolio

• Provide portfolio scenario planning and value assessment

• Conduct market research to uncover customer and business insights; translate those insights into products and programs that deliver growth for the product category

• Represent the category during medical conferences, sales meetings, and customer visits

• Determine the profitability and viability of new products or product enhancements.

• Maintain strong therapy and product knowledge; support internal and external customer education programs and product training as required Basic Qualifications

• Travel approximately 1-2 trips per quarter.

Cross-Functional Team Participation & Leadership

• Participate in cross-functional teams to optimize future product strategy around given business needs, market needs, customer needs and technical capabilities.

• Work with other marketing partners to understand unique customer & business needs and ensure product requirements are aligned with global products and strategies.

• Interact with Business Development team to identify acquisition, licensing and other partnership opportunities

REQUIREMENTS

· Bachelors’ degree required

· Minimum of 4 years of relevant experience in product management – a must

Nice to Have

· MBA in business

· Bachelor’s degree in Science or Engineering field preferred

· Experience in upstream product management preferred

· New product voice of customer/market research and design experience

· Cross-functional product management (ownership) experience

· Previous experience in medical device, pharma or B2B technology products preferred

· Knowledge of medical device industry practices, techniques and standards highly preferred

· Experience working in a fast paced, global organization

· Global perspective and mindset

· Strong communication and interpersonal skills with experience communicating with senior leaders