Location: Minnesota

Description:

The Principal Portfolio Manager is a strategic position within our favorite client, and is responsible for driving the commercial and new product marketing activities and requirements for the main product portfolio. The Portfolio Manager owns the global strategic direction for this franchise and provides value above and beyond the marketing function as the portfolio subject matter expert.  This experienced individual will lead the largest product launch in the companies history.

Responsibilities:

• Drive the strategic vision and define execution priorities for the product portfolio
• Perform analyses of product preferences, potentials, market size and competitive strategies and products by geography in order to guide decision making on product road map strategy and priorities
• Partner with R&D and the PMO to drive the product development process. Provide direction and definition of clear customer requirements to product development teams including product features and costs.
• Bring deep subject matter industry and product insight into the product portfolio to ensure that the company is a leading player in the industry
• Provide strong leadership to motivate and engage cross-functional teams
• Play a key role in directing product life cycle management, EOL, next generation planning.
• Develop collaborative relationships with key functional areas including Product Development, Regulatory and Clinical, Finance and other related functions.
• Translate the features and benefits of the product portfolio into compelling selling and commercialization strategies for the business
• Manage and support modality portfolio projects to maximize commercial pull-through opportunity while also minimizing risk exposure.
• Foster relationships with KOLs and clinicians to better understand the critical unmet needs, competitive differentiation and how to best commercialize the technology
• Collaborate with downstream marketing team to create compelling promotional materials, sales collateral and programs that drive awareness, exposure, and affinity to the technology
• Work closely with the sales team to understand how to best sell our technologies
• Develop and deliver sales and marketing presentations, training and advanced level insight and analysis into our technologies

Salary: Mid range of 155K base salary, Depending on qualifications, plus 15% bonus

Requirements:

• Where permitted by applicable law, must have received or be willing to receive the COVID-19 vaccine by date of hire to be considered
• Bachelor’s Degree
• 10+ years medical device marketing experience
• 7-10 years cardiovascular marketing background with commercial marketing + new product marketing experience
• Experience interacting with, selling to and gaining input from global customers and partners
• Demonstrated experience engaging in deep clinical and product performance discussions with leading physicians and renowned Key Opinion Leader experts
• Demonstrates executive presence and ability to communicate at all levels
• Strong business acumen
• Ability to combine big-thinking strategic perspective with a detail-oriented approach to problem-solving
• Demonstrated experiences beyond the marketing function, to include clinical, engineering, business development or other functional experience that adds to their ability to execute marketing roles.
• Routinely have served in varied capacities beyond a pure individual contributor Product Manager.  These experiences may have included people management or other roles that extend beyond pure product management roles.
• Domestic and International travel required 35% estimated

Preferred

• MBA
• Experience in large and small company marketing function
• Capital sales or marketing experience.
• Interventional medical device experience; interventional cardiology, radiology, and experience strongly desired