Senior Product Manager, Product Lifecycle Management (Remote)

Bausch Health; Bothell (WA); Remote; USD 132,000 - 182,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Benefits package

Stock purchase plan

Tuition reimbursement

Parental leave

Flexible spending accounts

Paid holidays

Job summary

Solta in Bothell, WA is seeking a Senior Product Manager for Product Lifecycle Management (Remote). You will lead lifecycle strategies for Solta's global medical device portfolio and collaborate with R&D, Regulatory, Quality, Operations, Service and Regional Commercial teams to translate market insights into actionable plans.

The role focuses on obsolescence, end-of-life planning, competitive response, and sustaining engineering prioritization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Business, Medicine, or related field required.
• MBA or relevant advanced degree preferred.
• Experience developing lifecycle plans across product maturity stages.

Responsibilities

• Develop lifecycle strategies for global medical device portfolio across markets.
• Lead lifecycle initiatives and prioritize sustaining engineering activities.
• Coordinate with R&D, Regulatory, Quality, Operations and Commercial teams.
• Prepare business cases for lifecycle investments and technology refreshes.
• Present recommendations to senior leadership.

Skills

Lifecycle management

Cross-functional leadership

Strategic planning

Market research

Voice of the customer

Upstream marketing

Product lifecycle strategy

Education

Bachelor's degree in Marketing/Business/Medicine

MBA or relevant advanced degree preferred

Tools

MS Office

Job description

Senior Product Manager, Product Lifecycle Management (Remote) Job Description Senior Product Manager, Product Lifecycle Management (Remote) Job Location: Bothell, Washington, USA Job Requisition ID: 15885

Join our global diversified pharmaceutical company enriching lives through our relentless drive to deliver better health outcomes to our patients. We are all in it together to make a difference. Be a part of a culture that doesn't just wait for change but actively creates it - where your skills and values drive our collective progress and impact.

The Sr Manager, Product Lifecycle Management, is responsible for developing and executing lifecycle strategies for the company's global portfolio of commercialized medical devices. Reporting within the Strategic Marketing organization, this role leads lifecycle strategy, competitive response planning, sustaining engineering prioritization, obsolescence management, and end-of-life strategy across global markets. Working cross-functionally with R&D, Clinical Development, Regulatory Affairs, Quality, Operations, Service, and Regional Commercial teams, this individual translates customer, market, and competitive insights into actionable strategies and recommendations for defined responsibilities. This role will also be the primary commercial point of contact for designated product lines that do not have dedicated upstream marketing ownership, ensuring continued business oversight, strategic direction, and cross-functional alignment. The candidate for this role is an experienced marketer, preferably with experience in lifecycle management strategies, competitive planning, and upstream marketing strategies.

Accountabilities

Product Enhancement & Sustaining Innovation

• Translates in-line and marketed product enhancements into product improvements
• Commercial voice for cross-functional prioritization of lifecycle initiatives based on customer, market, and competitive planning
• Own the commercial prioritization of product enhancements and sustaining engineering or innovation initiatives.
• Lead customer and market input into all activities
• Partner with R&D and Engineering to define business requirements for product improvements and technology upgrades.
• Develop business cases supporting lifecycle investments, product updates, feature enhancements, and technology refreshes.
• Collaborate with R&D leadership, product managers, SMEs, and key stakeholders to revise and continuously drive improvements.
• Partner with the market teams and Service Product Lifecycle Team to consolidate failure trends and analytics into actionable requirements for sustaining engineering projects.

Competitive Intelligence & Response Planning

• Monitor competitive activity, market trends, and technology developments.
• Assess competitive risks and opportunities across the portfolio.
• Maintain ongoing assessments of the competitive landscape and emerging technologies.

Product Transition & End-of-Life Planning

• Develop actionable and realistic product retirement and transition strategies that can be implemented by Regional Commercial Teams
• Lead customer migration planning and portfolio transition initiatives.
• Recommend product rationalization opportunities
• Minimize customer, commercial, and operational disruption during product discontinuation
• Integrated obsolescence and end of life (EOL) plans
• Competitive response plans for defined competitive set
• Recommend enhancement projects based on competitive and market evolution
• Develop response strategies to grow market position
• Lifecycle investment business cases and prioritization
• Technology refresh strategies (as required)
• Product rationalization recommendations
• Executive portfolio review presentations
• Commercial voice for cross-functional prioritization discussions
• Influence R&D resource allocation toward sustaining initiatives
• Make recommendations to executive leadership regarding portfolio investment

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Business, Medicine, or related field required. MBA or relevant advanced degree preferred.
• Strong leadership skills, able successfully define business objectives, strategies, tactics, and coordinate activities of cross functional teams to achieve set goals.
• Strong organization and management skills, able to drive performance and consistently deliver on commitments.
• Entrepreneurial work ethic, self-starter, able to work independently as well as collaboratively with various internal and external customers.
• Experience supporting product launches and commercial readiness activities in partnership with cross-functional teams
• Proven experience developing product value propositions, messaging frameworks, and market positioning strategies
• Demonstrated success developing and executing lifecycle plans across product maturity stages, including product enhancement, market expansion, competitive response, and end-of-life transitions.
• Experience collaborating with sales, marketing, and commercial operations organizations to develop and execute communication activities
• Proven experience leading complex cross-functional initiatives involving R&D, Regulatory Affairs, Clinical, Quality, Operations, Finance, and Commercial teams.
• Experience generating and synthesizing voice-of-customer, market research, competitive intelligence, and commercial performance data to inform strategic recommendations.
• Highly experienced leading business case development, possesses quantitative rigor, and presenting strategic recommendations to senior leadership.
• Demonstrated experience developing and executing competitive response plans in rapidly evolving markets.
• Strong understanding of medical device product development processes, stage-gate governance, and commercialization planning.

Experience:

• 8 years of progressive experience in upstream marketing, product management, strategic marketing, portfolio management, or commercial leadership within medical devices, healthcare, life sciences, or medical aesthetics.
• Minimum 3 years of experience directly managing product lifecycle strategy for commercially launched products, Upstream Marketing lead for new products in development, or Product / Brand Management for in-line products.

Additional Details

• 25% travel required

Preferred Locations

• Bothell, WA
• West Coast Remote

At Solta, you’ll be part of a global team shaping the future of aesthetics - where science, technology, and artistry come together to create confidence - one innovation at a time.

The range of starting base pay for this role is 132,000-182,000. Actual starting pay will be based on a wide range of factors including, but not limited to, relevant skills, experience, qualifications, education and location. In addition to base pay, this position is eligible for participation in either (i) our annual bonus program or (ii) a sales incentive plan.

Benefits package includes a comprehensive Medical (includes Prescription Drug), Dental, Vision, Flexible Spending Accounts, 401(k) with matching company contribution, discretionary time off, paid sick time, stock purchase plan, tuition reimbursement, parental leave, short-term and long-term disability, life insurance, accidental death & dismemberment insurance, paid holidays, employee referral bonuses and employee discounts.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to building diverse teams, representative of the patients and communities we serve, and we strive to create an inclusive workplace that cultivates collaboration.