What you will do:
As a Senior Portfolio Manager on Stryker’s Mako and Enabling Technologies team, you’ll help shape the future of Mako knee 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.
- Anticipates the needs of customers and patients through collecting the 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.
- Use research and insights to drive decision-making.
Portfolio Development & Execution
- Identify market trends, segment opportunities, and volume drivers to define commercialization efforts.
- Uses the big picture framework and pre-commercialization plan to develop sound marketing strategies and own a Mako knee 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.
- Lead across the end-to-end product development lifecycle, partnering closely with R&D and Project Management to define and manage scope, owning the financial business case, and ensuring cross-functional alignment to deliver a successful launch
Strategic Focus
- Synthesizes market trends to identify sources of incremental volume, evaluates opportunities across strategic quadrants, and defines 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.
- Own the relationship with Clinical Affairs and Product Marketing to shape research objectives, publication strategy, and evidence-based messaging.
- Develop new pricing strategies and marketing tools that align 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.
- Collaborates and influences others on cross-functional teams, advancing partnerships to achieve business objectives
- Demonstrates financial acumen.
- Develops key relationships with industry/market thought leaders, organizations, and institutions, in collaboration with other marketing leaders.
- Mentors, develops, and inspires others on the team and beyond.
What you need (Required):
- Bachelor’s degree required
- 6+ years of professional work experience required
Preferred Qualifications (Strongly desired):
- MBA preferred
- 3+ years medical device or marketing experience preferred
- Excellent presentation and interpersonal communication 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)
