Market Development & Growth Specialist

Cochlear; United States; Remote; USD 106,000 - 115,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Tuition reimbursement

Maternity/paternity leave

Employee stock purchase plan

Pet insurance

Job summary

Cochlear is seeking a Market Development & Growth Specialist to turn high-level commercial strategies into actionable, localized market execution plans. You’ll build targeted prospect lists, enable the field with tools, and report on performance to drive pipeline growth across the Sales, Growth, Marketing, and Product teams.

The role requires 3–5 years in related fields, strong Excel and Salesforce skills, and a bias for action with a track record of practical solutions.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years of experience in market development, sales enablement, operations, or growth-focused roles.
• Advanced Excel skills, CRM navigation (Salesforce) and BI tools.
• Strong ability to translate strategies into localized execution plans and tools.

Responsibilities

• Translate broad commercial growth objectives into localized market execution plans, target lists, account intelligence, outreach playbooks, and follow-ups.
• Extract and clean CRM data; monitor campaigns and market trends to identify pipeline risks and opportunities.
• Build trackers, dashboards, workflows, and pilot processes to improve execution, logging, visibility, and ROI.
• Collaborate with Sales, Growth, Marketing, Product/Clinical, Operations and external agencies to align deliverables and drive adoption of new tools.

Skills

Market development

Sales enablement

Operations

Growth marketing

CRM (Salesforce)

Data analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Salesforce

BI tools

Excel

Job description

Change people’s lives and love what you do! Cochlear is the most recognized brand in hearing health care.

Market Development & Growth Specialist

Position Spotlight:

• 3–5 years of experience in market development, sales enablement, operations, or an execution-focused growth marketing role.
• Translate commercial growth strategies into localized execution plans; build targeted prospect and account lists, field tools, workflows, and actionable performance reporting; and remove friction across the pipeline.
• Remote role with expectation of some travel.

About the role

Change people’s lives and love what you do at Cochlear—the most recognized brand in hearing health care—helping people hear and be heard around the world. If you know market development, sales enablement, commercial operations, and data-driven growth execution, this is a fantastic opportunity to join Cochlear at the global leader in implantable hearing devices!

Your success in this role is measured by turning high-level commercial strategies into active, high-performing field execution and creating practical tools, processes, and insights that support pipeline growth. Work collaboratively with internal stakeholders across Sales, Growth, Marketing, Product/Clinical, and Operations to align ownership, timelines, deliverables, and business outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

• Translate broad commercial growth objectives into practical, localized market execution plans, target lists, account intelligence summaries, outreach playbooks, and event follow-up workflows.
• Extract, clean, and manipulate CRM and commercial intelligence data to create targeted prospect and account lists; monitor campaigns, CRM activity, and market trends to identify pipeline risks and growth opportunities.
• Build and maintain actionable trackers, dashboards, workflows, templates, and pilot processes that improve execution, activity logging, visibility, and ROI; support executive-level communications and presentations.
• Connect Sales, Marketing, Product/Clinical, Operations, external agencies, and field teams to align deliverables, capture customer insights, remove friction, and drive adoption of new initiatives and tools.

Key Requirements

To add value to Cochlear in this role you’ll be able to meet and demonstrate the following knowledge, skills and abilities in your application and at interview:

• 3–5 years of experience in market development, sales enablement, operations, or a highly execution-focused growth marketing role.
• Advanced Excel skills, including data cleaning, basic modeling, and lookup functions, plus deep comfort navigating CRM systems such as Salesforce and business intelligence tools.
• Proven ability to move between high-level market analysis, detailed tool building, and direct stakeholder communication while operating effectively in ambiguity.
• A strong bias for action and a track record of building, testing, and refining practical solutions based on real-world feedback and momentum.
• Exceptional interpersonal, communication, and influencing skills, with the ability to build trust and drive alignment across cross-functional teams with different goals and operating styles.
• Resourcefulness and sound judgment to know when to move quickly, iterate, or ask for guidance; experience with modern data-targeting platforms is a major plus.

Total Rewards

In addition to the opportunity to develop your knowledge and grow professionally, we offer competitive wages and benefits.

• Pay Range in the United States: $106,000 - $115,000 based upon experience, as well as an annual bonus opportunity of 7.5% of base salary. Exact compensation may vary based on skills, experience, and location.
• Benefit package includes medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance as well as 401(K) matching with immediate vesting, Paid Time Off, tuition reimbursement, maternity and paternity leave, Employee Stock Purchase Plan and pet insurance.

Who are we?

Human needs have always been our inspiration, ever since Professor Graeme Clark set out to create the first multi-channel cochlear implant because he saw his father struggle with hearing loss. We always start with people in mind – thinking about their needs.

For this reason, our products, services and support will continue to evolve and improve. We are by our customers’ side through the entire hearing journey, so they can experience a life full of hearing. Our employees tell us that the number one reason they enjoy working for Cochlear is the opportunity to make a difference to people’s lives and working in an organization where they can be part of bringing the mission to life each day.

Physical & Mental Demands

The physical and mental demands described below are representative of those that must be met to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the individual is regularly required to be in a stationary (seated/standing) position; utilize business technology for work product delivery, communicate orally and in writing with others internal or external to the organization, utilize problem solving/critical thinking skills to discern and convey information. May be asked to occasionally transport/move up to 30 pounds, depending on the position. Specific vision abilities required by this job include ability to adjust focus. The individual is regularly required to utilize comprehension, critical thinking, communication, problem solving, organization reasoning, relating to others and discernment of items such as product specifications, procedures and processes to customers (whether internal or external). Influence, organization/classification of information and planning are also required.

The work environment may include office, home/office, and field environments. This is representative of the environments an individual may encounter while performing the essential functions of this job.

Cochlear Americas is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. If you require accommodation with completing the online application, please contact us via web or phone at 303-264-2549.