Senior Product Manager - Personal Protection

Medline Industries, Inc.; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 96,000 - 145,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative firm is seeking a Senior Product Manager to lead the product lifecycle in the Personal Protection division. This role involves managing product sourcing, marketing, and financial growth, while also developing training materials and conducting market research. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in marketing and product management within the healthcare sector, with excellent negotiation and analytical skills. Join a dynamic team that values diversity and inclusion, and contribute to impactful projects in a hybrid work environment.

Benefits

Health Insurance

401(k) Contributions

Paid Time Off

Life and Disability Insurance

Continuing Education & Training

Qualifications

• 4+ years in marketing, sales or product management in healthcare.
• Experience in financial data analysis and vendor negotiation.

Responsibilities

• Manage full product lifecycle and develop marketing plans.
• Negotiate with vendors and train sales forces.
• Conduct market research for product improvements.

Skills

Marketing

Sales

Product Management

Financial Analysis

Vendor Negotiation

Market Research

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

Microsoft Word

Microsoft PowerPoint

Microsoft Excel

Job description

Job Summary

Medline Industries has an immediate opening for a Senior Product Manager with our Personal Protection division. This role will be based out of our Chicago Merchandise Mart location and will work a hybrid model. Under minimal supervision, manage the full product lifecycle including the sourcing, marketing, new product development, sales support and financial growth of assigned products for a small (or stand-alone business unit).

Work with and train sales forces to be able to confidently sell product to customers. May have one or more Manager level direct reports.

Job Description

Responsibilities:

• Negotiate pricing with vendors for raw materials and finished goods. Visit vendors to develop products and train personnel in all aspects of each product and usages. Coordinate materials with vendors and develop finished custom items.

• Provide coaching and training to product management team. Service as a resource and provide project oversight.

• Develop and implement comprehensive marketing plans and promotional programs for existing products to include product strategy development, pricing strategy, collateral creation and brand management

• Review monthly financial performance and determine contributing factors. Offer solutions for detrimental sales or cost trends. Prepare product forecasts to include revenue and expense expectations. Analyze sales trends over time and impact of competitive strategies. Support forecasts and budgets with appropriately detailed marketing plans.

• Work with Manufacturing, Purchasing, and Engineering to reduce Cost of Goods by assessing packaging, alternate materials, new sources of material, stocking, make to order, direct to customer shipments, etc. Manage inventory by focusing on eliminating surplus and optimizing SKU count.

• Develop and deliver training materials for internal stakeholders, sales forces and customers. Create sales tools.

• Conduct effective market research and translate that research into new products, product improvements, or line extensions by providing leadership to a multi-functional team.

• Travel with sales force to support efforts to convert customers to purchase Medline products. Provide timely follow up to sales forces by answering product questions via e-mail and phone.

• Develop and mentor staff through on-boarding, open communication, training and development opportunities and performance management processes; build and maintain employee morale and motivation; ensure the team is appropriately staffed with required competencies.

Required Experience:

Education

• Bachelor's degree.

MINIMUM JOB REQUIREMENTS:

• At least 4 years experience in marketing, sales, product management or clinical practice in the healthcare industry.

• Experience negotiating with outside vendors and internal resources.

• Experience collecting and analyzing financial data.

Knowledge / Skills / Abilities

• Willing to travel up to 50% of the time for business purposes (within state and out of state).

• Intermediate level skill in Microsoft Word (for example: inserting headers, page breaks, page numbers and tables and/or adjusting table columns).

• Intermediate level skill in Microsoft PowerPoint (for example: applying a theme, formatting character spacing, inserting a picture, changing slide layout and theme colors, adding transitions, customizing slide numbers, changing chart style and/or formatting font).

• Intermediate level skill in Microsoft Excel (for example: using SUM function, setting borders, setting column width, inserting charts, using text wrap, sorting, setting headers and footers and/or print scaling).

Medline Industries, LP, and its subsidiaries, offer a competitive total rewards package, continuing education & training, and tremendous potential with a growing worldwide organization.

The anticipated salary range for this position:

$96,200.00 - $144,560.00 Annual

The actual salary will vary based on applicant's location, education, experience, skills, and abilities. This role is bonus and/or incentive eligible. Medline will not pay less than the applicable minimum wage or salary threshold.

Our benefit package includes health insurance, life and disability, 401(k) contributions, paid time off, etc., for employees working 30 or more hours per week on average. For a more comprehensive list of our benefits please click here. For roles where employees work less than 30 hours per week, benefits include 401(k) contributions as well as access to the Employee Assistance Program, Employee Resource Groups and the Employee Service Corp.

Every day, we're focused on building a more diverse and inclusive company, one that recognizes, values and respects the differences we all bring to the workplace. From doing what's right to delivering business results, together, we're better. Explore our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion page here.

Medline Industries, LP is an equal opportunity employer. Medline evaluates qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, disability/handicap status or any other legally protected characteristic.