Product Manager, Marketing - Hybrid

We are seeking a dynamic Product Manager to join the Neurosurgical team and play a key role in supporting innovative technologies used in brain, spine, and plastic surgery applications. This position offers the opportunity to drive an upcoming major product launch, collaborate cross-functionally, and help execute critical business objectives. We are looking for a high-integrity, collaborative, and hard-working marketer who is ready to take ownership, contribute to strategic growth, and help shape the future of our neurosurgical solutions.

What you will do:
• Understand key competitors and their relative strengths/weaknesses
• Understand customer groups, including why customers buy the product or service approach for the product or portfolio
• Understand the different marketing channel strategies and associated business implications
• Track and report results/KPIs to leadership and sales
• Understand key competitors and their relative strengths/weaknesses and maintains 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 understands customer needs
• Play a role in developing key strategy documents: strategic plan, annual marketing plan, product launch plans, etc
• Support the creation of Project Charters, CERs, and Business Case Financial Models as applicable
• 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 evaluates studies
• 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
• Responsible for the obsolescence plan
• 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 incorporates trends into strategic planning
• Provide marketing intelligence group with key objectives and inputs to drive customer insights

What you will need:
Required:
• Bachelor’s degree required
• 4+ years of work experience required

Preferred:
• MBA preferred
• 2+ years medical device or marketing experience preferred