Product Manager, Associate - Arthroplasty

About the role

Arthrex, Inc. is a global medical device company that specializes in new product development and medical education in orthopedics. We are currently seeking an Associate Product Manager to join our team and assist in our initiatives within the Arthroplasty portfolio.

Responsibilities

• Participates in overall marketing, product strategy, research and development requirements, development, and manufacturing coordination for new and emerging products.
• Works on technical product development, estimates of potential profits, and release to production.
• Aids in the management of day-to-day progress and maintenance of products.
• Provides technical expertise and training to other departments in support of product development.
• Collaborates with a wide variety of functional areas such as sales, engineering, marketing, manufacturing, and operations to develop and provide product definitions.
• Develops and maintains a prioritized list of customer and market requirements for product.
• Works with Product Team to develop marketing analysis to determine product definitions.
• Works with Product Managers/Product Team to coordinate and develop marketing, sales, engineering, and financial plans for product line.
• Provides financial and technical justification for product selection and definition.
• Works with Product Managers/Product Team to establish product development objectives and schedules for all phases of product development and introduction to market.
• Conducts market research and identifies and tracks market trends in company's industry.
• Produces competitive analysis materials comparing product with its key competitors.
• Identifies partnering opportunities for complementary third-party products to broaden company's product line.
• Participates in key sales situations for the product.
• Maintains communications and contacts to collect and analyze technical, financial, schedule, and sales information for product line.
• Identifies market potential, establishes pricing and market strategies, estimates potential sales, introduces market, distribution/channel issues, and manages mature product through phase-out.
• Provides expertise in particular product area and develops strategies and applicable portions of the company business plan.
• Plans, organizes, and coordinates assigned programs to ensure accomplishment of financial/budgetary goals and optimum allocation of resources.
• Manages resources to execute assigned programs.
• Collaborates with Product Managers/Product Team to coordinate product introductions and market exploitation with marketing and sales organizations to ensure maximum penetration of market segment.
• Supports offsite surgical cases and provides field team support.
• Travel will be required 25% of the time.
• In-office, Naples FL-based position; not remote.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree required; preferably in business, engineering or clinical.
• One year of medical device sales and/or marketing and/or product management and/or engineering and/or clinical experience OR a Master’s degree is required.
• Preferred experience within product management of software as a medical device.
• Excellent Public speaking and presentation skills are required.
• Knowledge of surgical orthopedics and/or arthroplasty.
• Skilled in working with different functions and effectively coordinating their activities to achieve desired results.
• Highly organized, dependable, detail oriented.
• Excellent time management and communication skills.
• Excellent listening skills, including the ability to identify and isolate customers concerns or objections, in addition to excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Ability to work with cadaver specimens and ability to speak in front of large groups.

Skills

• Proficient in Microsoft Office applications.
• Ability to work with surgical power tools.
• Must develop proficiency with the use of orthopedic power tools and surgical hand instrumentation.