Associate Product Manager, Upstream - Cardiac Ablation Solutions

Careers that Change Lives
Come join our growing Cardiac Ablation Solutions (CAS) Marketing Team! We are hiring a driven, passionate, and global-minded Associate Product Manager to work in our fast-paced Upstream Marketing Team.

The Associate Product Manager position is a highly visible role that will help shape the direction of our business through development of opportunity assessments, financial models, and voice of customer in support of programs that accelerate growth of the CAS business. You will be responsible for creating deliverables that help inform the Strategic Plan, Portfolio Prioritization, and the Annual Operating Plan. You will also drive analytics, market research and insights we work to achieve our goal of leadership in the EP Ablation market

A career at Medtronic is like no other. We're purposeful. We're committed. We value what makes you unique. Come be a part of a company that thinks differently to solve problems, make progress, and deliver meaningful innovations.

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Medtronic Cardiac Ablation Solutions is located in Minneapolis, MN. This role may be open to remote for well qualified individuals.

A Day in the Life

• Assists with prioritizing market & customer needs, translates into new product requirements, and aligns business stakeholders around key strategic opportunities.
• Develops a coordinated, long-range portfolio plan that meets customer (payer, physician, consumer) requirements.
• Participates on development core teams as the marketing core team member to represent voice of customer, strategic fit, business and financial opportunities.
• Works with product managers and R&D teams to translate customer requirements into meaningful projects/products and negotiates trade-offs necessary to meet technical feasibility and customer requirements.
• Interfaces with physicians to identify key strategic areas of focus and obtain feedback regarding current and future product plans.
• Executes physician advisory boards, society trade shows, market research and insights to understand key business drivers in strategic markets across the globe.
• Reviews and understands market analytics, trends, and competitive landscape to inform opportunity and financial assessments.
• Partners to understand P&L and how decisions impact the financial viability of new innovations.
• Builds deep expertise in the EP ablation space including disease states, therapies, competitive landscape, clinical and evidence data, and market dynamics.
• Collaborates with Global Downstream Marketing, Finance, R&D, R&T, Regulatory, Clinical, and other functional areas.
• Exercises judgment in planning, organizing, and executing work; monitoring performance, and reports on program status.
• Travel up to 20% of the time, within the U.S. and Internationally

Must Have: Minimum Requirements
To be considered, these minimum requirements must be evident on your resume:

• Bachelor's degree
• 2 years of relevant experience in marketing, engineering, clinical, consulting or similar with a Bachelor's degree, or Master's degree with 0 years of experience.

Nice to Have

• MBA
• Experience working in medical device or healthcare industry
• Advanced Excel Skills, including pivot tables, lookups and other built in functionality to aggregate and analyze data from diverse sources
• Prior experience developing market models and interpreting market data
• Experience developing and delivering business presentations to executive management
• Product planning, market research, sales analytics, financial modeling, or sales experience

About Medtronic

Together, we can change healthcare worldwide. At Medtronic, we push the limits of what technology, therapies and services can do to help alleviate pain, restore health and extend life. We challenge ourselves and each other to make tomorrow better than yesterday. It is what makes this an exciting and rewarding place to be.

We want to accelerate and advance our ability to create meaningful innovations - but we will only succeed with the right people on our team. Let's work together to address universal healthcare needs and improve patients' lives. Help us shape the future.

Physical Job Requirements

The physical demands described within the Responsibilities section of this job description are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. For Office Roles: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to be independently mobile. The employee is also required to interact with a computer, and communicate with peers and co-workers. Contact your manager or local HR to understand the Work Conditions and Physical requirements that may be specific to each role. (ADA-United States of America)

Additional Information

• Posting Date: Sep 15, 2021
• Travel: Yes,