Product Manager Contract

At Medtronic you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation, while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. You’ll lead with purpose, breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected, compassionate world.

A Day in the Life

Reporting to the Sr. Marketing Manager or Marketing Manager, the Product Manager is responsible for the overall downstream product management activities including the planning, coordination and execution of the marketing and sales support programs. The Product Manager also serves as a liaison between the Sales Force, the business unit leadership team, Strategic Marketing and Sales & Marketing Operations in the following areas: new product launch and sales support activities, portfolio management and marketing programs. This is a fixed term contract, expected to be approximately 12 months to cover a leave. This role is based out of Brampton, Ontario office.

Main Job Duties/Responsibilities

• Formulates and reviews corporate short and long-range plans, goals, and objectives for specific product or product line.
• Conducts competitive product analysis and market research of product consumer behavior and professional audience.
• Determines the profitability and viability of new products or product enhancements.
• Develops production and marketing strategies and tactics to ensure effective product placement relative to market opportunity, working closely with product development for a specific product, brand, or product area over its entire life cycle.
• Works with other functions to finalize product specifications.
• Provides advertising with core brand equity.
• Serves as technical adviser, demonstrating products and troubleshooting product issues.
• Responsible for reporting complaints and Adverse Drug Reactions (ADR).
• Plans and implements Product launch excellence for new technologies and key products.
• Executes short-term tactical marketing initiatives including Sales Force training.
• Performs Sales Force Voice of Customers (VoCs) and surveys.
• Manages Sales Force Q&A coordination and intelligence gathering.
• Responsible for creating and updating marketing collaterals.
• Serves as contracts, tenders and RFP activities marketing representative.
• Monitors competitive products and activities including pricing cross-reference information.
• Responsible for new product introduction (NPI) creation.
• Responsible for regulatory submission prioritization, submission and tracking.
• Manages demo and loaner pool, and responsible for coordination of product evaluations with the sales team.
• Supports field activities such as product upgrades, evaluations and conversions.
• Responsible for hardware sales programs coordination (if applicable).
• Responsible for key conferences, clinical education and customer events support.
• Performs new products quarterly forecasts.

Required Qualifications

Knowledge/Education

• Bachelor’s degree or Advanced degree
• Degree in marketing, business administration or health science

Job Experience

• Minimum 2 years relevant experience required with a bachelor’s degree or
• No minimum years of relevant experience required with an advanced degree.

Skills/Competencies

• Accountable for results
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English
• Strong interpersonal and relationship building skills
• Ability to work very well independently and participate as a key member of a team
• Ability to interact and cope with multiple stakeholders.
• Excellent organizational skills

Available to travel up to 40% of the time.

Desired/Preferred Qualifications

Knowledge/Education

• MBA

Job Experience

• 3 years + medical device experience in sales or marketing

Skills/Competencies

• Bilingual (French and English)

Physical Job Requirements

Available to travel up to 40% of the time. 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.

Medtronic Canada strives through our vision to build a culture of inclusiveness through our commitment to employment equity and diversity. Discrimination is prohibited on any grounds protected under Canadian Human Rights legislation. Employment applications are encouraged from all members of our community. Upon request, candidates with disabilities will be accommodated during the recruitment process.

Physical Job Requirements

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position, but they are not an exhaustive list of all the required responsibilities and skills of this position.

Benefits & Compensation

Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package
A commitment to our employees lives at the core of our values. We recognize their contributions. They share in the success they help to create. We offer a wide range of benefits, resources, and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage.

About Medtronic

We lead global healthcare technology and boldly attack the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions. Our Mission — to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life — unites a global team of 95,000+ passionate people. We are engineers at heart— putting ambitious ideas to work to generate real solutions for real people. From the R&D lab, to the factory floor, to the conference room, every one of us experiments, creates, builds, improves and solves. We have the talent, diverse perspectives, and guts to engineer the extraordinary.

Learn more about our business, mission, and our commitment to diversity here