Product Management, Cardiothoracic

Responsibilities

• Participates in overall marketing, product strategy, research and development requirements, development, and manufacturing coordination for new and emerging products.
• Works on technical product development, estimates of potential profits, and release to production.
• Assists in the management of day-to-day progress and maintenance of products.
• Provides technical expertise and training to other departments in support of product development.
• Works with Product Team to develop marketing analysis to determine product definitions.
• Collaborates with a wide variety of functional areas such as sales, engineering, marketing, manufacturing, and operations to develop and provide product definitions responsive to customer needs and market opportunities.
• Develops and maintains a prioritized list of customer and market requirements for product.
• Works with Product Managers/Product Team to establish product development objectives and schedules for all phases of product development and introduction to market.
• Conducts market research and identifies and tracks market trends in company's industry.
• Produces competitive analysis materials comparing product with its key competitors.
• Identifies partnering opportunities for complementary third-party products to broaden company's product line.
• Participates in key sales situations for the product.
• Identifies market potential, establishes pricing and market strategies, estimates potential sales, introduces market, distribution/channel issues, and manages mature product through phase‑out.
• Provides expertise in particular product area and develops strategies and applicable portions of the company business plan.
• Works with Product Managers/Product Team to coordinate product introductions and market exploitation with marketing and sales organizations to ensure maximum penetration of market segment.
• Provides continuing product surveillance and management of established product to obtain financial objectives.
• Supports offsite surgical cases and provides field team support. Travel will be required 25% of the time.

• Bachelor’s degree required, preferably in business, marketing, engineering or clinical.
• Product Manager level requires at least 5 years of medical device sales and/or marketing and/or product management and/or engineering and/or clinical experience.
• Sr. Product Manager level requires at least 7 years of medical device sales and/or marketing and/or product management and/or engineering and/or clinical experience.
• Excellent public speaking and presentation skills are required.
• Skilled in working with different functions and effectively coordinate their activities to achieve desired results.
• Highly organized, dependable, detail oriented.
• Excellent time management and communication skills.
• Excellent listening skills, including the ability to identify and isolate customers concerns or objections, in addition to excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Ability to work with cadaver specimens.

• Bachelor's degree