Group Marketing Manager, Imaging Systems

Boston Scientific•Marlborough, MA

15h•Hybrid

About The Position

Boston Scientific is seeking an experienced, collaborative leader to guide product strategy and new product development for its Endoscopy Imaging portfolio. The role combines customer insight, business strategy, product marketing, and research and development in a complex, highly regulated environment. The leader will identify unmet clinical needs, shape long-range product and technology strategies, and advance solutions from early exploration through development and commercialization. Close partnership with engineering, clinical, regulatory, quality, operations, finance, business development, regional marketing, and commercial teams is central to translating strategic opportunities into executable product plans. The position leads portfolio strategy and planning for single-use imaging technologies, evaluates internal and external development pathways, and guides products across their development and commercial lifecycles. It connects customer and market insights with product requirements, value propositions, investment decisions, launch planning, and sustained adoption. The role also contributes to financial and resource planning, builds alignment across global functions and regions, and represents the portfolio in leadership and investment discussions. The manager leads, coaches, and develops a team of product, business, or technical professionals; establishes team priorities and accountability; supports succession and capability planning; and fosters an inclusive culture of customer focus, innovation, collaboration, and disciplined execution. The role follows a hybrid work model, with employees required to work in the local office at least three days per week. Travel may be needed to collaborate with global teams, customers, and external partners. Relocation assistance and visa sponsorship are not available.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in business, marketing, engineering, life sciences, healthcare, or a related discipline.
At least 5 years of experience in medical devices, healthcare technology, life sciences, or another highly regulated product-development environment.
Demonstrated experience leading new product development, upstream product management, portfolio strategy, innovation, or a closely related function.
Experience working across research and development, marketing, clinical, regulatory, quality, operations, and commercial organizations.
Ability to identify customer needs and translate them into product strategy, development requirements, and business recommendations.
Strong strategic and financial acumen, including experience evaluating business cases, investment alternatives, and portfolio trade-offs.
Experience leading and developing employees or providing significant leadership to multidisciplinary teams.
Excellent communication, presentation, facilitation, and stakeholder-management skills.
Ability to influence decisions across functions and organizational levels without relying solely on formal authority.
Ability to manage multiple strategic initiatives and make sound decisions in a dynamic environment.
Ability to travel as needed to collaborate with global teams, customers, and external partners.

Nice To Haves

Advanced degree in business, engineering, healthcare, life sciences, or a related field.
Experience spanning more than one commercial or technical function, such as sales, marketing, product management, engineering, or research and development.
Experience with global medical device commercialization and product lifecycle management.
Experience with capital equipment, disposable devices, software-enabled products, digital health solutions, or connected healthcare technologies.
Experience evaluating partnerships, acquisitions, licensing opportunities, or external development models.
Knowledge of clinical research, regulatory strategy, reimbursement, healthcare economics, or market-access considerations.
Demonstrated success leading organizational change and building new capabilities, teams, or operating models.

Responsibilities

Develop and maintain long-range strategy for single-use imaging technologies, accounting for customer needs, market conditions, competition, technical feasibility, business value, and organizational capabilities.
Lead portfolio planning and prioritization, focusing resources on opportunities with the greatest potential to improve patient care and create sustainable business value.
Evaluate organic development, external innovation, partnership, and co-development opportunities.
Translate business strategy into product roadmaps, investment priorities, development objectives, and organizational recommendations.
Create decision frameworks for consistently assessing opportunities, risks, trade-offs, and resource requirements.
Monitor clinical, technological, regulatory, healthcare-economic, and competitive trends to identify opportunities and business risks.
Provide strategic leadership across the product development lifecycle, from opportunity identification and concept exploration through development, launch readiness, and lifecycle planning.
Ensure development programs are grounded in customer needs, clinical problems, and differentiated value propositions.
Partner with research and development teams to establish product requirements, development priorities, and evidence needs.
Establish operating models across product management, engineering, and supporting functions to improve alignment, decision quality, milestone predictability, and execution.
Identify and help resolve cross-functional issues affecting development strategy, resourcing, timing, or commercialization readiness.
Balance active-program execution with exploration of future technologies, solutions, and business models.
Lead collection and synthesis of customer insights from healthcare professionals, administrators, commercial teams, and other stakeholders.
Translate customer and market research into user needs, opportunity areas, value propositions, and product-development priorities.
Maintain understanding of clinical workflows and the operational environment where medical technologies are used.
Build relationships with external experts and customers to test strategic assumptions and evaluate concepts.
Distinguish customer insights from internal hypotheses and validate them through structured research when required.
Partner with regional and commercial leaders to develop global strategies that can adapt to customer needs, healthcare systems, and market conditions.
Guide early commercialization planning, including market development, segmentation, value propositions, pricing considerations, evidence requirements, and adoption pathways.
Connect upstream development decisions with downstream launch requirements to support market introduction and adoption.
Support lifecycle strategy, including portfolio transitions, platform expansion, product improvements, and complementary technologies and services.
Consider the complete customer experience, including clinical workflow, implementation, training, service, connectivity, and ongoing support.
Contribute to annual and long-range financial planning for the portfolio; develop and assess business cases, market models, investment scenarios, and resource recommendations.
Align staffing, operating expenses, and development investments with portfolio priorities in partnership with functional leaders.
Evaluate financial and strategic implications of delays, changing market conditions, competition, technical risks, and alternative development pathways.
Communicate resource constraints and portfolio trade-offs to stakeholders and decision-making forums.
Serve as a strategic partner to marketing, research and development, clinical, regulatory, quality, operations, finance, business development, and commercial leaders.
Build alignment among stakeholders with differing functional, regional, or financial priorities; facilitate timely, evidence-based decisions amid incomplete or changing information.
Represent the portfolio in leadership reviews, strategic planning sessions, and investment discussions.
Communicate portfolio strategy through clear presentations and narratives tailored to technical, commercial, and executive audiences.
Foster collaboration across global teams and incorporate regional perspectives into product and portfolio decisions.
Lead, coach, and develop a team of product, business, or technical professionals; establish roles, priorities, accountability, and decision rights.
Develop employees through coaching, meaningful assignments, career planning, and actionable feedback; build succession and capability plans.
Create an inclusive environment where team members can challenge assumptions, raise risks, and contribute ideas.
Promote customer focus, innovation, accountability, collaboration, and disciplined execution; support recruiting, onboarding, talent assessment, and functional capability building.