Associate Product Manager - Embedded and Enterprise Software

at  Arthrex

Date: Aug 21, 2024
Location: Santa Barbara, CA, US, 93111
Company: Arthrex
Requisition ID:

60805
Title:

Associate Product Manager - Embedded and Enterprise Software
Division:

Arthrex, Inc. (US01)

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

• Bachelor’s degree required, preferably in business, marketing, engineering, or clinical.
• 1 year of medical device sales and/or marketing and/or product management and/or engineering and/or clinical experience OR a Master’s degree is required.
• Experience with software-based medical devices or healthcare equipment preferred.
• Excellent Public speaking and presentation skills.

KNOWLEDGE AND SKILL REQUIREMENTS/SPECIALIZED COURSES AND/OR TRAINING:

• Knowledge of medical device/software development, marketing, and sales.
• Skilled in working with different functions and effectively coordinates their activities to achieve desired results.
• Highly organized, dependable, detail oriented. Excellent time management and communication skills.
• Excellent listening skills, including the ability to identify and isolate customers concerns or objections, in addition to excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Ability to work with cadaver specimens and ability to speak in front of large groups.

MACHINE, TOOLS, AND/OR EQUIPMENT SKILLS:

Proficient in Microsoft Office applications. Ability to work with surgical power tools.

• Participates in overall marketing, product strategy, research and development requirements, and development requirements for new and emerging products.
• Participates in and contributes to SCRUM ceremonies during product development and assists defining release scope details.
• Assists in the management of day-to-day progress and maintenance of products.
• Provides technical expertise and training to other departments in support of product development.
• Works with Product Team to develop marketing analysis to determine product definitions.
• Collaborates with a wide variety of functional areas such as sales, engineering, marketing, and quality to develop and provide product definitions responsive to customer needs and market opportunities.
• Develops and maintains a prioritized list of customer and market requirements for product.
• Works with Product Managers/Product Team to coordinate and develop marketing, sales, engineering, and financial plans for product line.
• Provides financial and technical justification for product selection and definition.
• Works with Product Managers/Product Team to establish product development objectives and schedules for all phases of product development and introduction to market.
• Conducts market research and identifies and tracks market trends in company’s industry.
• Produces competitive analysis materials comparing product with its key competitors.
• Identifies partnering opportunities for complementary third-party products to broaden company’s product line.
• Participates in key sales situations for the product.
• Maintains communications and contacts to collect and analyze technical, financial, schedule, and sales information for product line.
• Identifies market potential, establishes pricing and market strategies, estimates potential sales, introduces market, distribution/channel issues, and manages mature product through phase-out.
• Works with PM to define promotional activities, publicizing the product through the press, sales force, and alternate distribution channels.
• Provides expertise in particular product area and develops strategies and applicable portions of the company business plan.
• Plans, organizes, and coordinates assigned programs to ensure accomplishment of financial/budgetary goals and optimum allocation of resources.
• Manages resources to execute assigned programs.
• Coordinates details of program within the organization with a wide range of functions and individuals.
• Works with Product Managers/Product Team to coordinate product introductions and market exploitation with marketing and sales organizations to ensure maximum penetration of market segment.
• Provides continuing product surveillance and management of established product to obtain financial objectives.
• Supports on-site tours, on-site labs, offsite surgical cases, and provides field team support.
• Travel will be required 25% of the time
• In-office, Denver, CO (Preferred), or Santa Barbara, CA, or Naples, FL (dependent on experience).