As a Product Manager - Acute Care, you will execute brand strategies and identify new opportunities for assigned products, product lines, lines of business, or on a company-wide campaign basis. You'll be responsible for brand-level development, including market analysis, product acquisitions, and brand management
What you will do
- Understand key competitors and their relative strengths/weaknesses, and maintain networks of people and resources for obtaining competitive information
- Explain different product features to different customers as appropriate to their needs
- Maintain customer engagement and deeply understand customer needs
- Play a role in developing key strategy documents: strategic plan, annual marketing plan, product launch plans, etc.
- Elevate sales education and confidence related to wound care discussions by driving a deeper understanding of mattress feature sets.
- Articulate clinical relevance of current product features (CLRT) and expand justification for its use
- Develop sales offense and messaging for early mobility as it relates to current feature sets, the continuum of care, and areas of collaboration across the product portfolio
- Understand competitive dynamics in the market
- Understand what customers value and how they perceive different attributes of the product or portfolio
- Articulate why the product or portfolio adds value or solves problems for the customer
- Create marketing strategies to understand, develop, and enhance the relationship between the customer and the product or portfolio
- Propose objectives for generating clinical evidence and evaluate studies
- Support engineering sustainment projects
- Tie the business goal of the product or portfolio to the overall goal of Stryker
- Synthesize market trends and make recommendations on areas of strategic focus
- Develop new strategies, sales tools, and communication plans for the product or portfolio
- Apply clinical knowledge in combination with technical knowledge to educate and articulate value
- Work closely with sales training/sales enablement to set the sales training strategy for the product or portfolio
- Provide analytical support to set price
- Articulate desired communications outcomes consistent with marketing strategy to MarComm team
- Establish short-range and long-range improvement goals for the product management team, and under guidance, develop action plans to achieve those goals
- Analyze customer satisfaction to assess trends in customer engagement, and incorporate trends into strategic planning
- Provide marketing intelligence group with key objectives and inputs to drive customer insights
What you need (Required)
- Bachelor’s degree required
- 4 years of professional work experience
- Clinical or medical device experience
Preferred:
- MBA preferred
- ICU experience preferred
- Ability to manage multiple projects while delivering on established timelines
- Demonstrated proficiency in Microsoft Office (Excel, Word & PowerPoint)
- Excellent presentation and interpersonal communication skills
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
United States of America Pay Range:
- USN: $89,300 - $148,800 USD Annual
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