What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Product Manager position at Treace?
Company Description
Treace’s mission is to be the leader in the surgical treatment of bunions by establishing the Lapiplasty® System as the standard of care. We are committed to operating our business with the highest standards of ethical conduct. We intend to exceed our customers’ expectations through an innovation-driven, high-velocity approach to solving treatment and surgical problems. With our products and services, our mission is to assist foot and ankle surgeons in improving patient outcomes and reducing healthcare costs, while providing rewarding experiences and opportunities for our employees and stakeholders.
Job Description
As the Sr. Product Manager, you will be responsible to plan, implement, and control all upstream and downstream marketing related aspects of the company’s products from conceptual stages through product life cycles to meet marketing, financial and corporate growth objectives. This includes both long-range strategic planning and short-term tactical execution. You will be expected to achieve acceptable growth rates in the product line by bringing innovative new products to market, by maintaining strong relationships with foot and ankle key opinion leaders, and by actively supporting the field sales force.
This position influences research and development priorities and projects, research requirements, as well as manufacturing operations. You will prioritize activities and allocate resources for greatest effectiveness, as well as face abstract and conceptual problems.
A keen ability to create and analyze market trends is required. You will sense customer needs based on routine field work, surgeon advisor input, prior experiences, input from colleagues, and analysis of market and trend data.
Key responsibilities of the Sr. Product Manager role:
Develops comprehensive plans for bringing major new products to market.
Drives the product commercialization strategy and effort
Develops positioning strategies for new and existing products
Actively seeks out, validates, and defines new product concepts for development
Works collaboratively with R&D and surgeon designers to organize and execute productive product development meeting events
Develops in-depth clinical knowledge of areas of interest
Conducts market research and identifies and tracks market trends
Provides continuing product surveillance of established product to satisfy customer needs
Collaborates with a wide variety of functional areas such as R&D, Quality, Regulatory, Legal, Manufacturing, and Operations to develop and provide product definitions responsive to customer needs and market opportunities
Responsible for managing exhibits & tradeshows, advertising efforts, and working with graphics / ad firms to produce marketing-related collaterals for the business
Analyzes product line performance from both a quantitative and qualitative standpoint to determine which products should be discontinued
Develop short term and long-range sales budgets for the product line. Maintains ongoing awareness of performance to budget and takes corrective action as needed to ensure acceptable profitability
Seeks out, develops, and maintains strong corporate relationships with key physicians.
Conducts product training for field sales force
Supports planning and execution of medical education events as required to drive product adoption
Qualifications
Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing, Engineering, Science or Healthcare related industry.
Eight (8) years’ experience in Medical Device Product Management
Additional Information
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