Global Upstream Product Manager

The Role

The Upstream Product Manager drives the execution of new product initiatives that advance the Advanced Wound Care Restorative Healing Technologies (RHT) Franchise’s Build/Buy strategy and long-term innovation priorities. This role is accountable for marketing strategy, execution, and deliverables for new product initiatives and business development opportunities from concept through commercialization.

Responsibilities

• Portfolio & Project Ownership
• Own innovation and marketing strategy and deliverables across multiple complex projects
• Shape the development of target product profiles (TPPs), value propositions, positioning, and business cases that are financially rigorous and evidence-based
• Integrate clinical insights into marketing strategy, ensuring product concepts reflect patient outcomes, medical need, and clinical evidence
• Execute market opportunity analyses, including competitive assessment, market potential, and unmet need identification
• Prioritize geographic launch markets based on commercial potential, regulatory pathway, and operational readiness

Financial & Strategic Accountability

• Build robust business cases, including revenue projections, NPV analyses, cost-of-goods considerations, and pricing strategies
• Partner with Finance to model project scenarios and assess the financial impact of strategic choices
• Identify risks and opportunities that may impact financial, clinical, or operational outcomes

Cross-Functional Leadership & Influence

• Serve as the primary marketing liaison on the new product core team
• Align marketing inputs with cross-functional plans, timelines, and operational constraints
• Collaborate with PMO to ensure stage-gate readiness
• Partner with Global Downstream and Regional Marketing to provide launch readiness input, market prioritization guidance, and go-to-market strategy alignment
• Work with R&D, Regulatory, and Medical Affairs to ensure clinical feasibility, safety, and evidence integration
• Cook with Supply Chain and R&D to assess cost-of-goods assumptions, product availability, scale-up needs, and global launch readiness

Skills and Expertise

• Required Qualifications
• Bachelor’s degree or higher from an accredited University
• Five (5) years of progressive experience in upstream and downstream product marketing in MedTech, healthcare, wound care, or related FDA-regulated healthcare markets
• “Nice To Have” Qualifications
• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Marketing, Business Management
• Strong financial and business case acumen, including revenue modeling, NPV analyses, and pricing strategies
• Experience with stage-gate processes and tools, such as Accolade
• Record of collaborating cross-functionally to deliver actionable recommendations
• Excellent strategic thinking, problem-solving, analytical, and communication skills

Qualifications

• Advanced degree (e.g., MBA, Economics, or related field)
• Knowledge of the advanced wound care market, including regenerative tissue technology therapies
• Ability to thrive in an action-oriented, high-accountability environment

Location

Remote USA

Travel

15–20% domestic and international (on occasion)

Relocation Assistance

Not authorized

Pay Transparency

The expected compensation range for this position is $163,200 - $224,400, which includes base pay plus variable incentive pay, if eligible.

Legal & Compliance

Must be legally authorized to work in the country of employment without sponsorship for employment visa status.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Solventum is an equal opportunity employer. Solventum will not discriminate against any applicant for employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or veteran status.

Job Description

Solventum, a healthcare company with a rich history, is built on a trusted legacy of solving big healthcare challenges that improve patient lives while enabling healthcare professionals to perform at their best. People, and their well-being, are at the heart of every scientific advancement we pursue. We partner closely with the best minds in healthcare — guided by empathy, insight, and clinical intelligence — to solve our customers’ toughest challenges. Our ultimate goal? Move humanity forward by improving health for everyone. Because at Solventum, we never stop solving for you.

Company Overview

At Solventum, people are at the heart of every innovation we pursue. Guided by empathy, insight, and clinical intelligence, we collaborate with the best minds in healthcare to address our customers’ toughest challenges.

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