Product Manager

Are you looking to influence the development and growth of a global business?

This is a key role in a multi-disciplinary project team focused on a specific area of surgery which is at the very early phases of development.

This opportunity contributes across the full product life cycle – from early-stage development, through early in-market use, launch to global sales teams and beyond into promotion and sales optimisation.

About the Role

The core of this role is on assisting our project team(s) with understanding the specific problem we are looking to solve, learning first hand how effective we have been in solving the problem, supporting the sales teams in their implementation and execution of marketing & sales strategies, and interpreting lessons learned into insights for our product development and clinical research programmes. 

• Help our multi-disciplinary project team to solve the right problems, with the right products, targeting the right opportunities to improve patient care and outcomes
• Hone the strongest sales message based on available evidence, and translate this into effective sales tools to support lead generation, evaluation, purchase and education
• Identify and build relationships with key opinion leaders to share their expertise to support the project and influence driving clinical change with other clinicians.
• Develop sales and customer education materials and programmes and presentations to help educate internally and externally about the benefits of our therapies and the use of our products.
• Be able to recognise opportunities and the work to be done then be willing to do what is required even if it stretches you outside of your expertise.

On a day-to-day basis you could find yourself supporting one of our new products in market, identifying and prioritising product improvements, meeting with and learning from key healthcare professionals in NZ and around the world, managing the stock requirements of our markets as we grow, developing new marketing material or assisting in the execution of marketing plans and sales strategies. This could be across a range of different products in the surgery space, and in different parts of the world. You will be a key interface between product development, sales teams and customers.

About you

You will have a positive can-do attitude, be able to execute well as part of a team and autonomously, while able to approach tasks with an action-orientated 'get stuff done' attitude. Your affinity with physiology, curiosity and your excellent communication skills will be a real asset.

You will also need:

• The ability to quickly understand and apply scientific knowledge and reasoning to progress the development, introduction, adoption and sales growth of medical devices.
• To understand the medical device design challenges the team face and assess their implication on clinical application and the customer
• To be a team player, a natural collaborator and relationship builder, with the ability to interact and communicate with and diverse range of people.
• To be skilled at learning fast, deeply understand complex information, and simply to the fundamentals
• Exceptional oral presentation skills to a variety of stakeholders.
• Comfortable working with unknowns and uncertainty – we are looking to solve problems that have not been solved before!

Your ability to influence across roles and functions as well as potentially travel overseas is also important to your success in this role. 

Skills and Experience

To secure this position you will ideally hold a scientific based qualification with 3-4 years of experience. Experience in healthcare, medical device, marketing or sales will be a bonus. 

It would also be advantageous if you have:

• Previous experience in hospital operating rooms and surgical procedures.
• Worked in a start-up style environment
• Have understanding of the product development process or commercial exposure to product development and sales

Apply

If you are passionate about improving care and outcomes for patients around the world, and excited by the idea of working in a start-up environment - please apply now.