Product Manager (m/f/d) – Germany

At Medtronic you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation, while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. You’ll lead with purpose, breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected, compassionate world.

A Day in the Life

Are you ready to join an extraordinary team on a mission to transform the lives of peripheral vascular patients and customers? As Product Manager for Peripheral Vascular Therapies in Germany, you will be responsible for driving marketing activities to accelerate the adoption of our Peripheral Vascular therapies such as PAD, AV access and Carotid, support market development, gain market share, and achieve Medtronic’s ambitious growth targets, with a specific focus on new product launches and emerging indications.

The Peripheral Vascular Health (PVH) Operating Unit is dedicated to the treatment of peripheral arterial and venous diseases. We offer our physician customers a comprehensive suite of products and therapies to treat varying degrees of vascular disease — disorders of the circulatory system outside of the brain and heart. Our goal is to help healthcare professionals save limbs, reduce pain and treat disease — so their patients can get back to enjoying what they love.

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned:

• Managing the marketing plan development and execution for Germany, including the development of the marketing strategies, customer segmentation and targeting, the implementation of campaigns and tactics.
• Consistently and effectively communicating appropriate product, market, clinical, and competitive information to the local sales organization.
• Coordinating the participation to local conferences and events, including booth, contracts, and speakers.
• Leading new product launches, including pricing strategy, internal training, dissemination of promotional materials, internal and external communications, and launch tracking.
• Ensuring the dissemination of the latest scientific data at local conferences and events.
• Establishling strong relationships with Key Opinion Leaders (KOLs) and leverages KOL to promote products.
• Managing local supply and demand activities, including the prioritization of product allocations.
• Ensuring marketing expenses stay within the approved budget (Annual Operating Plan).
• Supporting local tender applications by providing the necessary product, technical and clinical information.
• Developing competitive and market intelligence in collaboration with sales organization and third parties.
  
  
  

Required Knowledge and Experience:

• Bachelor's Degree or vocational training in a relevant field
• Minimum 5 years relevant sales experience within medical device industry with a proven track record in overachieving commercial targets
• Strong interpersonal, communication, negotiation skills & excellent business acumen
• In depth knowledge & experience working with the German Healthcare system
• Extensive experience in building & developing highly engaged & successful teams & individuals
• Fluency in German & English
• Ability to Travel- Across the region for business meeting & customer engagement events (>50%)
• Knowledge of reimbursement systems along with Lean and process experience would be advantageous
  
  
  

Physical Job Requirements

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position, but they are not an exhaustive list of all the required responsibilities and skills of this position. 

Benefits & Compensation

Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package

A commitment to our employees lives at the core of our values. We recognize their contributions. They share in the success they help to create. We offer a wide range of benefits, resources, and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage.

About Medtronic

We lead global healthcare technology and boldly attack the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions.

Our Mission — to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life — unites a global team of 90,000+ passionate people.

We are engineers at heart— putting ambitious ideas to work to generate real solutions for real people. From the R&D lab, to the factory floor, to the conference room, every one of us experiments, creates, builds, improves and solves. We have the talent, diverse perspectives, and guts to engineer the extraordinary.

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