Product Manager - Acute Care

Stryker is hiring a Product Manager - Acute Care to execute brand strategies and identify opportunities for assigned products and product lines. The role focuses on market analysis, product and brand management, customer engagement, clinical evidence, sales enablement, and strategic marketing.

Responsibilities

• 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

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
• MBA
• ICU Experience
• Project Management
• Microsoft Office
• Excel
• Word
• PowerPoint
• Time Management
• Presentation Skills
• Interpersonal Communication
• Analytical Skills
• Problem-Solving

Company

• Medical technology products for MedSurg, neurotechnology, and orthopaedics.
• Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA
• http://www.stryker.com/en-us/index.htm
• Founded in 1941
• 10001+ employees

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required
• 4 years of professional work experience
• Clinical or medical device experience
• 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

Required skills

• Clinical Experience, ICU Experience, Medical Device Experience, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Word

Preferred skills

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Experience

• 4+ years