Senior Portfolio Manager - Hybrid

Stryker; Fremont (CA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401(k) plan

Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)

Job summary

Stryker in Fremont, CA seeks a Senior Portfolio Manager to drive upstream marketing for Neurovascular products. The role blends market research, competitive insights, and cross-functional leadership to shape value propositions and product launch plans.

You will build financial models, guide NPDP activities, and partner with Clinical Affairs and Product Marketing to align evidence, messaging, and pricing with brand strategy. This is a hybrid role requiring collaboration across departments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• 6+ years of work experience required.
• MBA preferred.

Responsibilities

• Gather and collate competitive information to drive insights.
• Anticipate customer and patient needs; craft a superior value proposition.
• Leverage key opinion leaders for insights.
• Understand customers; optimize the value proposition.
• Analyze market research validity and significance.
• Use qualitative and quantitative research effectively.
• Identify industry trends using market data and third-party sources.
• Lead NPDP process with cross-department collaboration.
• Develop a PLCM plan and launch strategy.
• Build financial models to fund NPD and ROI.
• Develop pricing aligned with strategy and brand.

Skills

Competitive intelligence

Value proposition

Market research

KOL engagement

Forecasting

Cross-functional collaboration

Pricing strategy

Education

Bachelor's degree

MBA

Job description

We are seeking a Senior Portfolio Manager to support the Neurovascular Upstream Marketing team.

This role is hybrid in Fremont, CA.

What you will do:

• Gather and collate competitive information to drive insights
• Anticipate the needs of customers and patients and create a superior value proposition
• Obtain insights by leveraging key opinion leaders
• Understand customers and optimizes value proposition
• Analyze the validity and reliability of market research results. Understand statistical significance and basic hypothesis testing.
• Effectively use and interpret qualitative and quantitative research
• Utilize market research and third-party data to identify key industry trends
• Collaborate cross-departmentally to lead the new product development (NPDP) process
• Understand new product development process and its effect on the business
• Build financial business case model to support new product development funding and product return on investment
• Responsible for delivering the business objective, marketing objective and leading the discovery process for the pre-commercialization plan
• Leverage core competencies and the strategic assets of the organization to maximize new product development and launch planning
• Partner with Clinical Affairs to propose research objectives for evidence generation (Clinical studies, research papers, etc.)
• Partner with Product Marketing to develop a publication and messaging strategy that aligns with clinical evidence
• Understand the costs of acquiring new customers vs. retaining current customers
• Understand how to target customers based off of total market potential and opportunity
• Understand potential sources of new volume within current customer segment or outside of the current segment and the financial tradeoffs for pursuing each
• Lead the development of sales tools and channel communication.
• Understand and predict sales trends in the market
• Research key factors, measurements and variables used in forecasting
• Execute a product lifecycle management (PLCM) plan as it relates to the overall business and launch strategy
• Develop contingency plans in the event of a supply chain interruption
• Create and communicate a value proposition
• Develop pricing consistent with the Marketing Strategy and brand positioning
• Develop new marketing channels and tools
• Define performance criteria used for evaluating business trends and activities

What you will need:

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree required
• 6+ years of work experience required

Preferred:

• MBA preferred
• 3+ years medical device or marketing experience preferred
• Upstream marketing experience preferred
• Excellent presentation and interpersonal communications skills preferred

United States of America Pay Ranges:

• USN: $102,600 - $171,000 USD Annual
• US5: $107,700 - $179,600 USD Annual
• US10: $112,900 - $188,100 USD Annual
• US15: $118,000 - $196,600 USD Annual
• US20: $123,100 - $205,200 USD Annual
• US30: $133,400 - $222,300 USD Annual

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Health benefits include: Medical and prescription drug insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, critical illness insurance, accident insurance, hospital indemnity insurance, personalized healthcare support, wellbeing program and tobacco cessation program. Financial benefits include: Health Savings Account (HSA), Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs), 401(k) plan, Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), basic life and AD&D insurance, and short-term disability insurance.

Stryker offers innovative products and services in MedSurg, Neurotechnology, Orthopaedics and Spine that help improve patient and healthcare outcomes. Alongside its customers around the world, Stryker impacts more than 150 million patients annually. Depending on customer requirements employees and new hires in sales and field roles that require access to customer accounts as a function of the job may be required to obtain various vaccinations as an essential function of their role.