Product Planning Manager

Fortive • Everett, WA

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About The Position

We are seeking a Product Planning Manager who can shape the future of our Biomedical portfolio through innovation, market analysis, and strategic foresight. Our products are critical to the maintenance and performance of medical devices in a healthcare setting. Join us in our mission to deliver trusted solutions to those who keep healthcare up and running, so they can focus on what matters most. In this role, you will lead with insight—not just execution—owning the front-end of the innovation process and qualifying investment priorities. You’ll identify where the market is going, uncover unmet customer needs, and translate those insights into clear hardware and software product strategies, prioritized ideas to explore, and scalable growth potential. This role is not just about managing products—it’s about defining what we should build next and why.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in business, Marketing, Engineering, or related field
• 2+ years of product management or market-focused experience in a B2B technical environment
• Demonstrated success in driving product innovation and growth
• Experience with qualitative and quantitative market research methodologies
• Proven ability to contribute to business cases and influence investment decisions
• Excellent communication and presentation skills

Nice To Haves

• MBA or equivalent strategic experience
• Experience defining product features and requirements in a structured framework
• Experience in biomedical testing, healthcare technology, or radiation safety markets

Responsibilities

• Execute deep market and competitive analysis to identify whitespace opportunities and growth vectors within core markets
• Synthesize discovery Voice of Customer (VoC), industry trends, and market insights into strategic opportunities to explore.
• Qualify and prioritize ideas by sizing market opportunities, defining customer problems, and estimating levels of desirability, viability, and feasibility
• Key contributor to the front-end innovation process, from concept ideation through business case validation
• Develop clear product visions, contribute to multi-year roadmaps and portfolio strategies with the product team.
• Define and prioritize high-impact problems worth solving, work with cross functional teams to test prototypes for product-market fit.
• Build and present business cases including financial modeling and ROI justification
• Define successful products, setting the features and requirements priorities that will achieve the expected customer and business outcomes
• Communicate product vision and high-level product definitions to executable product requirements for skilled development teams and portfolio product managers to develop and take to market
• Partner with portfolio product managers and commercial teams to manage the product lifecycle, applying business insights to priorities for innovation.
• Support idea prioritization frameworks, balancing growth roadmap ideas with core business needs

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level