Location: Columbus,IN, USA
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The Product Manager position is responsible for leading the Shoulder Arthroplasty portfolio, including Fracture Revision. The primary focus will be supporting go-to-market strategy and execution, including surgeon and sales rep communication, education, direct to patient and promotional strategies. This person will be responsible for providing continuous support to the sales force and representing the marketing organization to cross functional business partners.
This position is based in Bloomington, MN, or Columbia City, IN. A 30% domestic travel is required.
**What you will do**
+ 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
+ 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 portfoli.o
+ Propose objectives for generating clinical evidence and evaluating 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 that are consistent with the marketing strategy.
+ 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 need**
**Required**
+ Bachelor's degree required
+ 6+ years of work experience required
**Preferred**
+ MBA preferred
+ Experience working with medical device marketing or sales
+ Experience developing training materials
+ Experience in product launches
+ Experience in Downstream Marketing
+ Clinical knowledge in Fracture and Revisions
+ Experience creating commercialization plans
+ Experience in Go-To-Market plans
+ Experience evaluating Competitive Insights
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.
Stryker Corporation is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status. Stryker is an EO employer - M/F/Veteran/Disability.