Associate Product Manager - Advanced Surgical

About the role

The Associate Product Manager plays a key role in advancing CONMED’s Advanced Surgical portfolio by owning the lifecycle, strategy, and roadmap for the Energy portfolio. This role focuses on driving sustaining initiatives from an upstream marketing perspective—using voice-of-customer insights, competitive intelligence, and data-driven analysis to inform portfolio decisions, investment tradeoffs, and execution priorities. The Associate Product Manager partners closely with cross-functional teams to translate strategy into actionable requirements, support disciplined controlled market releases, and ensure alignment across development, operations, and commercial functions as products progress toward commercialization readiness.

Responsibilities

• Drive sustaining for advanced surgical products from marketing side, including line extensions, design changes, cost-reduction efforts, and end-of-life (EOL) execution.
• Create and drive controlled market release strategies for sustaining initiatives, ensuring disciplined planning, execution, and launch readiness, with clear cross-functional communication across downstream and commercial teams.
• Lead voice-of-customer (VOC) and field engagement activities related to sustaining initiatives, synthesizing insights into portfolio recommendations, requirements, and prioritization decisions.
• Translate portfolio strategy, VOC insights, and sustaining priorities into clear marketing and product requirements, supporting effective hand-off and execution across R&D and cross-functional teams.
• Partner with cross-functional teams—including R&D, Clinical, Regulatory, Quality, Operations, and Supply Chain—to ensure alignment from strategy through execution and commercialization readiness.
• Maintain differentiation through monitoring competitive intelligence, emerging technologies, and market dynamics, and inform portfolio strategy.
• Champion a data-driven, customer-centered approach, ensuring the voice of the customer informs portfolio decisions, priorities, and execution.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent.
• 1–2 years of relevant experience in areas such as engineering or marketing.
• Ability to meet with customers at hospitals and to be a member of a credentialing agency.
• Travel ability 25%-40%.

Qualifications

• Must have excellent skills in Microsoft Office including Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
• Experience operating in highly regulated environments set by governmental agencies, independent regulatory bodies, medical associations, and patient advocacy organizations throughout the product lifecycle.
• Demonstrated strong organizational and communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to build relationships with sales teams and physicians.
• Thorough knowledge of relevant anatomy, surgical procedures, and clinical needs.
• Thorough knowledge of surgeon and sales education process.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• Excellent healthcare including medical, dental, vision and prescription coverage
• Short & long term disability plus life insurance -- cost paid fully by CONMED
• Retail Savings Plan (401K) -- CONMED matches your contributions dollar for dollar, with the potential for up to 7% per pay period
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan -- allows stock purchases at discounted price
• Tuition assistance for undergraduate and graduate level courses