Sr. Product Manager - Contract

Medtronic; Brampton; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A global healthcare technology leader in Brampton is seeking a Sr. Product Manager for a fixed-term contract. The incumbent will be responsible for driving strategic product management, developing marketing strategies, and collaborating with the sales team. The ideal candidate has a strong background in marketing or health sciences, with at least 4 years of relevant experience. This role offers a competitive salary and a flexible benefits package.

Benefits

Competitive Salary

Flexible Benefits Package

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or advanced degree in marketing, business administration or health science.
• Minimum 4 years of relevant experience required with a bachelor’s degree or minimum 2 years of relevant experience required with an advanced degree.
• Bilingual (French and English) is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for the overall downstream strategic product management activities including portfolio management.
• Develops production and marketing strategies to ensure effective product placement relative to market opportunity.
• Active participation and collaboration with the Sales team in customer engagement.
• Responsible for key conferences, clinical education and customer events support.

Job description

At Medtronic you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation, while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. You’ll lead with purpose, breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected, compassionate world.

A Day in the Life

Reporting to the Sr. Marketing Manager or Marketing Manager, the Sr. Product Manager is responsible for the overall downstream strategic product management activities including strategic portfolio management; development and execution of marketing strategies and programs to profitably grow/protect market share; product launch excellence; and demand forecasting. The incumbent is expected to work collaboratively with Sales team to gain deep understanding of customer needs and to develop programs to address those unmet needs.

This is a fixed term contract, expected to be approximately 12 months to cover a leave.

This role is based out of Brampton, Ontario office.

Main Job Duties / Responsibilities

• Formulates and reviews corporate short and long-range plans, goals, and objectives for specific product or product line.
• Conducts competitive product analysis and market research of product consumer behavior and professional audience.
• Determines the profitability and viability of new products or product enhancements.
• Develops production and marketing strategies and tactics to ensure effective product placement relative to market opportunity, working closely with product development for a specific product, brand, or product area over its entire life cycle.
• Provides advertising with core brand equity.
• Serves as technical adviser, demonstrating products and troubleshooting product issues.

Job Description

• Responsible for the annual marketing plan and strategic plan development
• New Product launch excellence
• Develops deep clinical and therapy knowledge.
• Performs Voice of Customers (VoCs)/Ad boards
• Active participation and collaboration with Sales team in customer engagement
• Responsible for creating and updating marketing collaterals.
• Serves as contracts, tenders and RFP activities marketing representative.
• Monitors competitive products and activities including pricing cross-reference information.
• Responsible to work with RA partners on regulatory submission prioritization and tracking.
• Timely planning, coordination of the development of all essential tools to ensure the Sales team is well supported for success.
• Supports field activities such as product upgrades, evaluations and conversions.
• Responsible for key conferences, clinical education and customer events support.
• Active participation in the IBP process to strive to continuously improve on demand forecast.

Career Stream

Typically an individual contributor with responsibility in a professional discipline or specialty. Delivers and/or manages projects assigned and works with other stakeholders to achieve desired results. May act as a mentor to colleagues or may direct the work of other lower level professionals. The majority of time is spent delivering and overseeing the projects – from design to implementation – while and adhering to policies, using specialized knowledge and skills normally acquired through advanced education.

Differentiating Factors

• Autonomy: Seasoned individual contributor. Works independently under limited supervision to determine and develop approach to solutions. Coaches and reviews the work of lower level specialists; may manage projects / processes.
• Organizational Impact: May be responsible for entire projects or processes within job area. Contributes to the completion of work group objectives, through building relationships and consensus to reach agreements on assignments.

Required Qualifications

Knowledge / Education

• Bachelor’s degree, or;
• Advanced degree.
• Degree in marketing, business administration or health science

Job Experience

• Minimum 4 years of relevant experience required with a bachelor’s degree or
• Minimum 2 years of relevant experience required with an advanced degree.

Skills / Competencies

• Accountable for results
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English
• Strong interpersonal and relationship building skills
• Ability to work very well independently and participate as a key member of a team
• Ability to interact and cope with multiple stakeholders.
• Excellent organizational skills

Job Description

• Available to travel up to 40% of the time.

Desired / Preferred Qualifications

Knowledge / Education

• MBA

Job Experience

• 3 years + medical device experience in sales or marketing
• Sales experience is an asset, in Medical Device or other relevant industry

Skills / Competencies

• Bilingual (French and English)

Physical Job Requirements

• Available to travel up to 25% of the time
• The physical demands described within the Responsibilities section of this job description are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. For Office Roles: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to be independently mobile. The employee is also required to interact with a computer and communicate with peers and co‑workers.

Medtronic Canada strives through our vision to build a culture of inclusiveness through our commitment to employment equity and diversity. Discrimination is prohibited on any grounds protected under Canadian Human Rights legislation. Employment applications are encouraged from all members of our community. Upon request, candidates with disabilities will be accommodated during the recruitment process.

Physical Job Requirements

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position, but they are not an exhaustive list of all the required responsibilities and skills of this position.

Benefits & Compensation

Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package

A commitment to our employees lives at the core of our values. We recognize their contributions. They share in the success they help to create. We offer a wide range of benefits, resources, and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage.

About Medtronic

We lead global healthcare technology and boldly attack the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions.

Our Mission — to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life — unites a global team of 95,000+ passionate people.

We are engineers at heart— putting ambitious ideas to work to generate real solutions for real people. From the R&D lab, to the factory floor, to the conference room, every one of us experiments, creates, builds, improves and solves. We have the talent, diverse perspectives, and guts to engineer the extraordinary.

Learn more about our business, mission, and our commitment to diversity here