Product Manager, Wound Care- Remote - #178825

Overview/Risks

The Product Manager's primary function is to plan, organize and control assigned products within a product family (or families) from conceptual stages throughout life cycles to optimize revenues and meet marketing, financial and corporate growth objectives.

Responsibilities

• Participates in overall product strategy, research and development requirements, development, and processing coordination for new and emerging technologies/products.
• Manages relationship with respective corporate partners (sales channels) and collaborates accordingly on all strategies with partners
• Coordinates technical product development, estimates of revenue and cost potentials, and release to processing.
• Manages daily progress of product family including back orders, sales to plan, technical field support and maintenance.
• Provides technical expertise and training to other departments including sales and customer service in support of product development, product positioning and competitive assessment.
• Conducts competitive market analysis to develop product definition and assess gap analysis.
• Collaborates with a wide array of functional areas such as sales, engineering, processing, planning, recovery and customer service to develop and provide product definitions responsive to customer needs and market opportunities.
• Develops marketing plans for the specific product families including market and competitive analysis, revenue forecasts, objective determination/assignment and advertising requirements.
• Prepares product development objectives and schedules for all phases of product development and introduction to market of new items as well as line extensions.
• Manages development, production and distribution of promotional and collateral materials to support sales and marketing programs. Assists in the corporate and product branding at trade show and conventions.
• Prepares competitive analysis materials comparing family with key competitors.
• Maintains communications and contacts to collect and analyze technical, financial, schedule and sales information for product family.
• Defines advertising and promotional activities within the product family with the support of the Agency.
• Assists in establishing strategic marketing objectives in line with corporate objectives for products and services.
• Assists in the management of the marketing budget.
• Develops and maintains relationships with key surgeons to expand product family. Participate in promoting sample products at trade shows, conventions, learning centers and rep co-travel. (Approximate travel: up to 30%)
• Assists with special projects and performs additional duties as assigned by the Group Product Director.
  
  

Qualifications

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

Education: Bachelor's Degree

Years of Experience: 3 - 5 years

Other: Minimum 2 years human tissue, wound management, surgical device background or related medical product experience. Field sales and regenerative medical experience is a plus.

Specialized Knowledge, Technical Skills, and Abilities:

• Product Launch experience
• Experience with Product Forecasting
• Advanced wound care, amniotic tissues epsecially