Product Manager, Emergency Care Marketing
Stryker · Tokyo
Work Flexibility: Hybrid or OnsiteWho we want:
- Hard-working winners. Confident, competitive and results-oriented professionals who create a track record of success.
- Dedicated achievers. People who thrive in a fast-paced environment and will stop at nothing to ensure a project is complete and meets regulations and expectations.
- Effective communicators. People who can interpret information clearly and accurately to concisely communicate results and recommendations to stakeholders.
- Collaborative partners. People who build and leverage cross-functional relationships to bring together ideas, information, use cases, and industry analyses to develop best practices.
What you will do:
- Understand key competitors and their relative strengths/weaknesses
- Understand customer groups, including why customers buy the product or service approach for the product or portfolio
- Understand the different marketing channel strategies and associated business implications
- Track and report results/KPIs to leadership and sales
- Understand key competitors and their relative strengths/weaknesses and maintains networks of people and resources for obtaining competitive information
- Explain different product features to different customers as appropriate to their needs
- Maintain customer engagement and deeply understands customer needs
- Play a role in developing key strategy documents: strategic plan, annual marketing plan, product launch plans, etc
- Support the creation of Project Charters, CERs, and Business Case Financial Models as applicable
- Understand competitive dynamics in the market
- Understand what customers value and how they perceive different attributes of the product or portfolio
- Articulate why the product or portfolio adds value or solves problems for the customer
- Create marketing strategies to understand, develop, and enhance the relationship between the customer and the product or portfolio
- Propose objectives for generating clinical evidence and evaluates studies
- Tie the business goal of the product or portfolio to the overall goal of Stryker
- Synthesize market trends and make recommendations on areas of strategic focus
- Develop new strategies, sales tools, and communication plans for the product or portfolio
- Apply clinical knowledge in combination with technical knowledge to educate and articulate value
- Work closely with sales training/sales enablement to set the sales training strategy for the product or portfolio
- Responsible for the obsolescence plan
- Provide analytical support to set price
- Articulate desired communications outcomes consistent with marketing strategy to MarComm team
- Establish short-range and long-range improvement goals for the product management team, and under guidance, develop action plans to achieve those goals
- Analyze customer satisfaction to assess trends in customer engagement, and incorporates trends into strategic planning
- Provide marketing intelligence group with key objectives and inputs to drive customer insights
Minimum Qualifications (Required):
- Bachelor’s degree required
- 4+ years of work experience required
Preferred Qualifications (Strongly desired):
- MBA preferred
- 2+ years medical device or marketing experience preferred
- Excellent presentation and interpersonal communications skills
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Ability to manage multiple projects while delivering on established timelines
- Ability to be persuasive in the absence of organizational authority
- Must be able to understand and work within complex interdivisional procedures and policies
- Demonstrated proficiency in Microsoft Office (Excel, Word & PowerPoint)