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Location: Winnersh
Department: Marketing
As Global Innovation Marketing Manager – Ostomy, you will play a strategic, future-focused role within the Global Marketing Ostomy (GMO) team, staying closely connected to our end-users, clinicians, and markets to anticipate and shape the next wave of meaningful innovation. This role is responsible for proactively identifying emerging needs, unmet challenges, and opportunities for mid to long-term growth by maintaining deep insight into the evolving healthcare landscape.
You will collaborate with cross-functional partners, including the Breakthrough Innovation Group (BIG), R&D, Clinical, and the GMO team to explore, shape, and refine early-stage opportunities across product, digital, and service innovation. Positioned upstream of commercialization, this role serves as a visionary guide, helping to define where our portfolio can and should go next. You’ll also work in close partnership with the Senior Global Marketing Manager, New Product Commercialization and wider GMO team, to hand off prioritized opportunities for further development and launch readiness ensuring strategic continuity across the innovation lifecycle.

WORK EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS:

• Number of overall years necessary: 8-12
• Strong capability in front-end innovation, opportunity assessment, and trend analysis.
• Highly collaborative with experience working in or with cross-functional and R&D-led teams.
• Proven success in driving early-stage idea development and concept validation.
• Exceptional communication, facilitation, and storytelling skills.
• Innovation strategy training preferred

EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS:

• Undergraduate/Bachelor’s degree
• Marketing qualification preferable

SPECIALIZED SKILLS/TECHNICAL KNOWLEDGE:

• Strong insight generation skills, including VOC, ethnography, and trend analysis
• Proven experience in early-stage innovation and concept development
• Strategic foresight with ability to anticipate market and clinical shifts
• Effective collaboration with R&D, Clinical, and external innovation partners
• Solid understanding of the healthcare and medical device environment
• Skilled in synthesizing ideas into clear opportunity narratives and business cases
• Confident facilitator of co-creation workshops and advisory boards
• Agile, curious, and comfortable navigating ambiguity