Senior Upstream Product Manager, Nellcor Marketing

Senior Upstream Product Manager

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.

The Acute Care and Monitoring (ACM) operating unit (OU) is committed to excellence in innovation and commercialization to pursue our vision and long-term business growth. The ACM organization is refining its product delivery, innovation, and commercialization approach to enable product leadership across all segments of our product portfolio. This will require enhancing our innovative processes and refining our design and delivery approaches to deliver an integrated, comprehensive portfolio that enables product development excellence across ACM.

At Medtronic, we bring bold ideas forward with speed and decisiveness to put patients first in everything we do. In-person exchanges are invaluable for doing our work. We're working a minimum of four days a week onsite in our Lafayette, Colorado office as part of our commitment to fostering a culture of professional growth and cross-functional collaboration as we work together to engineer the extraordinary.

We are seeking a strategic and experienced Senior Upstream Product Manager to drive our portfolio strategy and product innovation for our flagship Nellcor business. This role is responsible for assessing market opportunities, developing new product concepts, and collaborating with cross-functional teams from ideation through commercialization to ensure that we lead the market with our best-in-class technology and market access.

Key Responsibilities Include :

• Drive upstream marketing activities, including market research, customer segmentation, and identification of unmet customer needs.
• Develop concepts in alignment with portfolio strategy, long-range planning, and innovation roadmap.
• Build and validate business cases for new product opportunities, including market sizing, financial modeling, and competitive analysis.
• Partner with R&D, Clinical, Regulatory, and downstream marketing to integrate customer insights into product development.
• Actively fosters a culture of innovation and accountability.
• Present portfolio strategies and recommendations to senior leadership and key stakeholders.
• Ensure alignment with global and regional marketing teams for successful product launches and lifecycle management.

Flexible for global travel, approximately 30 40%.

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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. 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.

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.

It is the policy of Medtronic to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and / or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, Medtronic will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.