What you will do
As a Portfolio Manager on Stryker’s Mako and Enabling Technologies team, you’ll help shape the future of Mako hip by identifying customer needs, supporting new product development, and building the business case for commercialization. You’ll leverage research, market intelligence, and cross-functional collaboration to bring forward-thinking strategies to life.
Research & Insights
- Conduct competitive analysis and gather market intelligence to uncover opportunities and inform strategy.
- Understands the needs of customers and patients through collecting voice of customer and research to facilitate scope decisions and craft compelling value propositions.
- Design and execute structured qualitative and quantitative research using appropriate methods, synthesizing historical and current data to deliver statistically sound insights.
Portfolio Development & Execution
- Identify market trends, segment opportunities, and volume drivers to guide commercialization efforts.
- Uses the big picture framework and pre-commercialization plan to develop sound marketing strategies and deliver a Mako hip roadmap that provides value to our customers and meets our business objectives.
- Translates the marketing plan to specific marketing activities and brings the strategy into execution.
- Develop marketing and strategic plans for new products, and partner with concept development to deliver proof of concepts in conjunction with a marketing plan to bring to charter.
- Collaborate in the new product development (NPDP) process, guiding product development and building financial business cases and aligning launch strategies.
Strategic Focus
- Synthesize market trends to identify sources of incremental volume, evaluate opportunities across strategic quadrants, and recommend priorities based on tradeoffs aligned with FE strategic focus.
- Support the development of sales tools and channel messaging that align with clinical evidence and product value.
- Partner with Clinical Affairs and Product Marketing to shape research objectives, publication strategy, and evidence-based messaging.
- Develop pricing strategies and marketing tools that align with brand and business priorities.
- Support the execution of product lifecycle management (PLCM) strategies across key phases of the portfolio.
- Leverage strategic assets and core competencies to enhance product launch plans and go-to-market readiness.
- Analyze and report on performance metrics to guide future strategy and continuous improvement.
Overall
- Deliver high quality results with passion, energy, and drive to meet business priorities.
- Collaborate with cross-functional and cross-divisional teams to build partnerships to achieve business objectives.
What you need
Required
- Bachelor’s degree
- 4+ years of professional experience
Preferred
- MBA preferred
- 2+ years medical device or marketing experience preferred
- 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)
