Sr. Product Specialist - CAS

CAN Medtronic Canada ULC; Brampton; On-site; CAD 124,000 - 155,000; Full time

Job summary

Medtronic is seeking a Sr. Product Manager in Brampton, Ontario, reporting to the Sr. Marketing Manager or Marketing Manager.

The role leads downstream strategic product management, including portfolio management, marketing strategy execution, launch excellence, and demand forecasting to grow market share. You will collaborate with the Sales team to understand customer needs, drive programs addressing unmet needs, and contribute to the annual marketing and strategic plans while ensuring tools

Qualifications

• Requires advanced knowledge of the job area combining breadth and depth.
• Minimum of 4 years of relevant experience, or an advanced degree with a minimum of 2 years relevant experience.

Responsibilities

• Formulates and reviews corporate short and long-range plans for a product line.
• Conducts competitive product analysis and market research.
• Determines profitability and viability of new products or enhancements.
• Develops marketing strategies and tactics to grow market share and support launches.
• Works with RA partners on regulatory submission prioritization and tracking.
• Collaborates with Sales to understand customer needs and address unmet needs.

Education

Bachelor's degree (relevant field)

Advanced degree

Job description

Careers that change lives start here. Medtronic is a global leader in healthcare technology with a Mission to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life. Our 95,000 employees work across more than 150 countries to put patients first — developing innovative medical technologies that improve the lives of 72+ million patients each year. Your unique talents will help shape the future of healthcare while building a career grounded in purpose, growth, and impact.

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. The role will require you to be onsite at Brampton, Ontario 3 days a week.

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.
• Works with other functions to finalize product specifications.
• Provides advertising with core brand equity.
• Serves as technical adviser, demonstrating products and troubleshooting product issues.
• Responsible for reporting complaints and Adverse Drug Reactions (ADR)
• 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 welk 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.

SPECIALIST 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.

Innovation and Complexity: Problems and issues faced are difficult, and may require understanding of multiple issues, job areas or specialties . Makes improvements of processes, systems or products to enhance performance of the job area. Analysis provided is in-depth in nature and often provides recommendations on process improvements.

Communication and Influence: Communicates with senior internal and external customers and vendors. Exchange information of facts, statuses, ideas and issues to achieve objective, and influence decision-making.

Leadership and Talent Management: May provide guidance, coaching and training to other employees within job area. May manage projects, requiring delegation of work and review of others' work product .

Required Knowledge and Experience

Requires advanced knowledge of job area combining breadth and depth, typically obtained through advanced education combined with experience. May have practical knowledge of project management. Requires a Baccalaureate degree (or for degrees earned outside of the United States, a degree which satisfies the requirements of 8 C.F.R. § 214.2(h)( 4)(iii)(A) and minimum of 4 years of relevant experience, or advanced degree with a minimum of 2 years relevant experience.

Salary Range

$88,768 - $110,960

PLEASE NOTE: We use artificial intelligence (AI) to review resumes of candidates and assess their fit based on the criteria outlined in the job posting. We do not use AI to make any final hiring or interview decisions. This posting reflects a current, genuine vacancy that we are actively recruiting to fill.

Physical Job Requirements

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.

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. 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. We change lives.

Each team member, each day, helps to improve and redefine how the world treats the most pressing health conditions, from heart disease to diabetes. Our industry leadership comes from the passion and ingenuity of our people. That’s who we are. Working alongside one another, we use science, medicine, and a profound understanding of the human body to build extraordinary technologies that can transform lives. We build extraordinary solutions as one team. With one Medtronic Mindset defining how we work. Speed and decisiveness run through our DNA. Diverse perspectives inspire our bold answers to any challenge that comes our way. And we deliver results the right way, breakthrough after patient breakthrough.

This life‑changing career is yours to engineer. By bringing your ambitious ideas, unique perspective and contributions, you will… Build a better future, amplifying your impact on the causes that matter to you and the world Grow a career reflective of your passion and abilities Connect to a dynamic and inclusive culture that welcomes the challenge of life‑long learning.

Here, it’s about more than the bottom line. Our Mission to improve human welfare drives us. We advance healthcare, society, and equity with every design, inside and outside our walls. Insight-driven care. Fresh viewpoints. Cutting‑edge AI, data, and automation. You're shaping the future of healthcare technology and defining the next generation of breakthroughs in care.

It is the policy of Medtronic to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, Medtronic will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.

For sales reps and other patient facing field employees, going into a healthcare setting is considered an essential function of the job and we expect our employees to comply with all credentialing requirements at the hospitals or clinics they support. This employer participates in the federal E‑Verify program to confirm the identity and employment authorization of all newly hired employees. To request removal of your personal information from our systems please email [e-mail]