Product Manager, Enabling Technologies, MEA

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We are currently in search of a highly skilled Product Manager for Enabling Technologies to take on the responsibility of supporting the MEA region. In this role, you will be accountable for developing a comprehensive understanding of key competitors, diverse customer groups, and various marketing channel strategies. Your responsibilities will extend to tracking results, creating key strategy documents, supporting project initiatives, and leveraging clinical knowledge to enhance the value of our products. The ideal candidate will play a pivotal role in contributing to strategic planning, collaborating seamlessly with cross-functional teams, and taking the lead in driving customer insights. Join our team and take responsibility for achieving Stryker's short and long-term improvement goals.

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

What You Need:

• Bachelor's degree is required, and an MBA is preferred
• 4+ years of work experience, with minimum 2 years of medical device or marketing experience
• 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)

About Stryker

Stryker is one of the world's leading medical technology companies and, together with our customers, is driven to make healthcare better.

The company offers innovative products and services in Medical and Surgical, Neurotechnology, Orthopedics, and Spine that help improve patient and healthcare outcomes. Alongside its customers around the world, Stryker impacts more than 100 million patients annually.

More information is available at stryker.com