Product Manager Medical Devices

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This position is part of Novanta's Advanced surgery business unit. Specialized in the field of Minimally Invasive Medicine, WOM develops devices and accessories so that doctors can operate with small cuts. We produce Cameras, Insufflators, Medical Pumps, and tubing that makes diagnosis and treatment easier for everyone. Our insufflators and pump systems dilate cavities in the body and turn previously complicated surgeries into minor procedures. Together with customers, doctors, and technical experts, our teams continuously search for new ways to innovate.

Summary

The Product Manager is held responsible for a product or product group. Based on market needs and voice of customer, the employee develops product requirements, and actively manages the related portfolio from product idea until discontinuation, and develops all necessary documentation following PM-related regulative processes and sustaining activities.

Primary Responsibilities

• Retrieve and analyze feedback from customers٫ stakeholders and other teams to shape customer requirements٫ features and end products
• Accountability for revenue & gross margin for a product or product group
• Create product concepts, plans and roadmaps for next generation products, and build product strategies consistent with company vision
• Create and own NPVs and contribute to phase gate process
• Prepare and review product requirements documents
• Support Upstream / Marketing for Value Proposition, Pricing, Product Positioning and Mid-term Portfolio Strategy
• Collaborate with Upstream Marketing to build business cases for New Product Introduction
• Perform product validation in a laboratory and clinical setting
• Clinical indication and application knowledge in MIS
• Manage product changes and discontinuations with Key Account Management
• Coordinate cross-functional teams and collaborate with customers, upstream / marketing, sales and R&D
• Executing Product Lifecycle management and competition analysis
• Contribution and support of risk management process
• Coordination of sustaining activities and PM-related Regulatory Processes as Clinical Evaluation, Post Market Surveillance, Post Market Clinical Follow-up, Usability
• Act as a Medical product consultant

General Tasks

• Strict compliance with the quality, occupational safety and environmental regulations.
• Implementation of the instructions of the quality / environmental management representative and the occupational safety specialist.

Required Experience, Education, Skills, Training and Competencies

• Broad and deep functional experience. Typically acquired through 3 to 8 years of relevant work experience within the medical device industry.
• Requires extensive research, in-depth knowledge and creativity.
• Requires that complex problems are anticipated, identified, defined and resolved.  Recommendations made by others are analyzed in order to solve issues bearing broad and long-term impact.
• Complex and varied problem-solving requires extensive diagnosis.  Incumbent acts as advisor to less-experienced personnel. Required to train others. Exercises primarily technical and some process leadership.
• Work requires advanced knowledge of several specific fields of knowledge related to one of the company's major business functions or of customer's business requirements, specialized knowledge of product design and process management methods is also needed.
• English fluency is a must, German at least on a good conversational level is required
   

Travel Requirements   

• Travel by public transportation including train and airplane on demand
• Passport for international travel (customer & internal meetings)
   

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