Senior Product Manager for Endovascular Medical Devices

Merit Medical Systems•South Jordan, UT

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About The Position

At Merit Medical, our mission is to create innovative medical devices that improve lives. Our goal is to hire and develop people who want to build something special through hard work, team effort, and commitment. Together, we are making a difference in the lives of patients around the world. WORK SHIFT DAY (United States of America) SUMMARY OF DUTIES Job Duties: Manage global upstream marketing activities for radial access products within the Endovascular portfolio. Develop global strategy for the radial access portfolio in the endovascular interventional market. Perform market assessment for the radial access portfolio to determine market attractiveness for new products globally. Ensure supply continuity is maintained for existing radial access products globally including forecast management. Prepare and present professional written and oral presentations and market analysis to provide internal trainings for sales team, cross-functional product development teams, and production staff. Address changes to the portfolio due to supply interruptions and changes, product modifications, and evolving regulations. Conduct market research through physician interviews, observation of procedures, questionnaires, and face-to-face discussions for various purposes, market assessment, product requirements, new opportunity identification. Identify customers’ unmet needs through collaboration with Interventional Cardiologists and Interventional Radiologists to develop new product design specifications. Work on New Product Development by utilizing the medical device design control process. Collaborate with sales, engineering, regulatory, quality, manufacturing, and operations to develop and maintain products according to customer needs. Work with Interventional Cardiologists and Interventional Radiologists to determine detailed user requirements for new radial access products. Develop product positioning, messaging, branding, brand name, logo, packaging and labeling for existing and new radial access products. Develop a global pricing strategy for new products utilizing various pricing sources and the global pricing team. Plan and execute global new product launches through partnership with sales, engineering, manufacturing, branding, and the commercial marketing team. Develop and present Marketing Plan Reviews to the Executive leadership team. Develop and maintain demand forecast for pre-market and recently launched radial access products globally. Partner with the Marketing and Events team for tradeshows, corporate events, surgeon education, and the assurance of consistent branding and messaging across radial access products.

Requirements

3 years as a Product Manager or closely related occupation.
Bachelor’s degree in Biomedical Engineering, Medical Engineering, or a closely related field.
3 years’ experience as a Product Manager or closely related occupation must be in the medical device industry.
Demonstrable knowledge of and prior experience in: Managing upstream marketing activities for medical device product lines.
Conducting market assessment and reporting findings to senior management.
Preparing and presenting professional written and oral presentations and market analysis.
Collaborating with sales, engineering, regulatory, quality, manufacturing, and operations teams for new product development.
Developing and maintaining demand forecast for new radial access products globally.
Working on New Product Development by utilizing the medical device design control process.
Conducting market research through physician interviews, observation of procedures, questionnaires, and face-to-face discussions, market assessment, product requirements, and new opportunity identification.
Developing and presenting Marketing Plan Reviews to the Executive leadership team.
Ensuring supply continuity is maintained for products globally including forecast management.
Travel domestically up to 2 times per month for period of up to 4 days per trip.
Travel internationally up to 1 time per year for period of up to 7 days per trip.

Responsibilities

Manage global upstream marketing activities for radial access products within the Endovascular portfolio.
Develop global strategy for the radial access portfolio in the endovascular interventional market.
Perform market assessment for the radial access portfolio to determine market attractiveness for new products globally.
Ensure supply continuity is maintained for existing radial access products globally including forecast management.
Prepare and present professional written and oral presentations and market analysis to provide internal trainings for sales team, cross-functional product development teams, and production staff.
Address changes to the portfolio due to supply interruptions and changes, product modifications, and evolving regulations.
Conduct market research through physician interviews, observation of procedures, questionnaires, and face-to-face discussions for various purposes, market assessment, product requirements, new opportunity identification.
Identify customers’ unmet needs through collaboration with Interventional Cardiologists and Interventional Radiologists to develop new product design specifications.
Work on New Product Development by utilizing the medical device design control process.
Collaborate with sales, engineering, regulatory, quality, manufacturing, and operations to develop and maintain products according to customer needs.
Work with Interventional Cardiologists and Interventional Radiologists to determine detailed user requirements for new radial access products.
Develop product positioning, messaging, branding, brand name, logo, packaging and labeling for existing and new radial access products.
Develop a global pricing strategy for new products utilizing various pricing sources and the global pricing team.
Plan and execute global new product launches through partnership with sales, engineering, manufacturing, branding, and the commercial marketing team.
Develop and present Marketing Plan Reviews to the Executive leadership team.
Develop and maintain demand forecast for pre-market and recently launched radial access products globally.
Partner with the Marketing and Events team for tradeshows, corporate events, surgeon education, and the assurance of consistent branding and messaging across radial access products.