Upstream Marketing Director, Perioperative Surgical Solutions

Upstream Marketing Director, Perioperative Surgical Solutions

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Solventum is a new healthcare company with a long legacy of solving big challenges that improve lives and help healthcare professionals perform at their best. We are driven by empathy, insight, and clinical intelligence to deliver breakthrough solutions at the intersection of health, materials, and data science.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.

Job Description

Role Overview

As a Marketing Director for Perioperative Surgical Solutions, you will lead portfolio strategy, drive market insights, and collaborate cross‑functionally to deliver impactful product launches.

The Impact You’ll Make in this Role

• Build and lead the portfolio strategy for your area of responsibility, ensuring alignment with business objectives and customer needs.
• Identify opportunities for organic growth (new product development) and inorganic growth (e.g., licensing, M&A) and prioritize them in alignment with strategic goals.
• Conduct in‑depth market assessments, customer & competitive analyses to evaluate opportunities before allocating resources to NPD projects.
• Lead evaluations of M&A targets to assess strategic, customer, and business alignment.
• Manage and develop a team of upstream product managers to execute NPD projects, ensuring new products meet unmet customer needs and align with the portfolio strategy.

How You Will Make An Impact

• Partner cross‑functionally with R&D, Clinical, Regulatory, Finance, and downstream marketing to ensure portfolio and NPD projects align to business goals and deliver value.
• Bring the external perspective into the organization by cultivating deep customer, market, and competitive insights to guide investment decisions and portfolio priorities in connection with the business & portfolio strategy.

Your Skills And Expertise

• Demonstrated success in developing and executing portfolio or business strategy, balancing resource constraints and opportunity.
• Proven track record of successfully launching new products in the medical device segment, from concept through commercialization, with measurable business impact.
• Strong analytical and strategic thinking skills, with the ability to translate market, customer, and competitive insights into actionable strategies.
• Cross‑functional leadership and influence skills, with experience partnering across R&D, Clinical, Regulatory, Operations, and Commercial teams to deliver results.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher, in Marketing, Business, Engineering, Life Sciences, or a related field.
• 10+ years of relevant business experience, ideally including medical device, healthcare technologies, or adjacent regulated industries.
• 7+ years in marketing, product management, or strategy roles with increasing scope and responsibility.
• 5+ years of experience leading new product development initiatives in the medical device industry—taking projects from concept through launch.
• 3+ years managing direct reports, including mentoring/developing product or upstream marketing talent.

Additional Qualifications That Could Help You Succeed Even Further

• Master’s degree in Marketing, Business Administration, Life Sciences, or related field.
• Experience in global product markets (e.g., launching or marketing products in multiple geographies / cross‑border regulatory / reimbursement considerations).
• Prior exposure to highly regulated global environments (e.g., FDA, CE, etc.).
• Proven track record of delivering product launches on time, on budget, with measurable business impact.

Employment Details

Seniority level: Director

Employment type: Full-time

Job function: Marketing and Sales

Industries: Medical Equipment Manufacturing

Work location: Remote

Travel: May include up to 35% Domestic and International Travel

Relocation Assistance: May be authorized

Supporting Your Well‑Being

Solventum offers many programs to help you live your best life—both physically and financially. We regularly benchmark competitive pay and benefits to ensure you’re rewarded appropriately.

Application Process

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Please note: your application may not be considered if you do not upload a resume or enter education and work history directly in the application fields.

Solventum is committed to maintaining the highest standards of integrity and professionalism in our recruitment process. Applicants must remain alert to fraudulent job postings and recruitment schemes that falsely claim to represent Solventum.