Product Portfolio Manager

Siemens Healthineers

4d•$177,780 - $244,453

About The Position

Manages the portfolio of defined products, solutions and/or service elements in line with the business strategy of the unit. Within the Global Marketing Organization, this role leads market and customer insights that inform competitive positioning, investment, portfolio strategy, innovation, commercialization, and growth. The position serves as a strategic advisor to senior leaders by translating customer, market, competitive, and business intelligence into actionable recommendations. The role defines a global insights agenda, develops research and analytics plans, synthesizes data, and leads Voice of Customer and competitive intelligence programs. It builds market models, forecasts, opportunity assessments, and scenarios to support portfolio priorities, business cases, launches, and investment decisions. The manager partners across global and regional functions, communicates executive-ready recommendations, develops scalable insight practices, manages external partners and budgets, and leads a team of market insights professionals.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in business, marketing, life sciences, economics, statistics, social sciences, or a related discipline.
Significant experience in market insights, strategic marketing, market intelligence, commercial analytics, strategy consulting, or a related function within healthcare, diagnostics, medical technology, or life sciences.
Demonstrated expertise leading qualitative and quantitative primary research, including segmentation, concept and message testing, unmet-needs assessment, customer-journey research, and Voice of Customer programs.
Strong experience with market sizing, forecasting, opportunity assessment, business-case development, scenario planning, and competitive intelligence.
Ability to integrate multiple internal and external data sources into a clear, actionable point of view.
Strong analytical and data-visualization capabilities, including proficiency with Excel, Power BI, or comparable platforms.
Proven ability to influence senior leaders, constructively challenge assumptions, and guide decisions in a complex global matrix.
Strong executive communication and presentation skills, including the ability to make complex evidence understandable and decision-ready.
Experience partnering across Marketing, Portfolio Management, Strategy, Commercial, Finance, Medical Affairs, and R&D.
Demonstrated people leadership experience, including coaching, developing, and managing direct reports.
Experience managing research agencies, syndicated-data partners, project portfolios, and budgets.

Nice To Haves

Direct experience in in-vitro diagnostics, laboratory medicine, core laboratory, automation, or healthcare informatics.
Experience building or transforming a global market insights or competitive intelligence capability.
Understanding of healthcare economics, reimbursement, procurement, tendering, and laboratory decision-making.
Experience applying advanced analytics, predictive modeling, or AI to market and customer intelligence.
MBA, master’s degree, or another relevant advanced degree.

Responsibilities

Define the global insights agenda around strategic and commercial priorities, translating key business questions into objectives.
Translate complex business questions into integrated research, analytics, and intelligence plans using appropriate qualitative and quantitative methodologies.
Synthesize customer, market, competitive, clinical, commercial, and business-performance data to identify patterns, opportunities, risks, and strategic implications.
Lead Voice of Customer programs across the portfolio and customer journey, including segmentation, unmet-needs research, concept and message testing, customer-experience research, and win/loss analysis.
Establish a forward-looking competitive intelligence capability monitoring competitor strategies, portfolio developments, partnerships, market activity, and emerging disruption.
Develop market models, forecasts, opportunity assessments, and scenario analyses to support portfolio prioritization, business cases, launch planning, and investment decisions.
Partner with Global Marketing, Portfolio Management, Strategy, Commercial, Finance, R&D, Medical Affairs, and regional teams to incorporate insights into planning and execution.
Translate complex evidence into executive narratives that explain implications, recommended actions, and potential business impact.
Build scalable research standards, tools, dashboards, governance, and knowledge-management practices.
Manage external research partners, data providers, project budgets, and research quality while ensuring compliance with privacy and market-research requirements.
Apply advanced analytics, digital tools, and AI-enabled approaches where they can improve insight quality, speed, or predictive value.
Lead and develop a market insights team through coaching, prioritization, performance management, and development opportunities.