Senior Portfolio Manager, Foot & Ankle

As a Senior Portfolio Manager on Stryker's Sports Medicine team, you will be at the forefront of innovation. In this role, you’ll lead the portfolio development for soft tissue within the foot and ankle and small joints space. This role offers a unique chance to partner and collaborate with top surgeons in the field, the sales force and internal stakeholders, driving success and making a meaningful impact on the way soft tissue reconstruction in foot and ankle is delivered. Join us in this exciting journey to improve patient outcomes and advance your career in a dynamic, supportive environment. 

WHO WE WANT:  

• Hard-working winners. Confident, competitive and results-oriented professionals who create a track record of success. 

• Dedicated achievers. People who thrive in a fast-paced environment and will stop at nothing to ensure a project is complete and meets regulations and expectations. 

• Effective communicators. People who can interpret information clearly and accurately to concisely communicate results and recommendations to stakeholders. 

• Collaborative partners. People who build and leverage cross-functional relationships to bring together ideas, information, use cases, and industry analyses to develop best practices. 

WHAT YOU WILL DO: 

• Gather and collate competitive information to drive insights 

• Anticipate the needs of customers and patients and create a superior value proposition 

• Obtain insights by leveraging key opinion leaders 

• Understand customers and optimizes value proposition 

• Analyze the validity and reliability of market research results. Understand statistical significance and basic hypothesis testing. 

• Effectively use and interpret qualitative and quantitative research. 

• Utilize market research and third-party data to identify key industry trends 

• Collaborate cross-departmentally to lead the new product development (NPDP) process 

• Understand new product development process and its effect on the business 

• Build financial business case model to support new product development funding and product return on investment                                                                      

• Responsible for delivering the business objective, marketing objective and leading the discovery process for the pre-commercialization plan                                                                                                                                                                                 

• Partner with Product Marketing to develop a publication and messaging strategy that aligns with clinical evidence 

• Understand how to target customers based off of total market potential and opportunity 

• Understand potential sources of new volume within current customer segment or outside of the current segment and the financial tradeoffs for pursuing each                                                                                                                                                  

• Understand and predict sales trends in the market 

• Execute a product lifecycle management (PLCM) plan as it relates to the overall business and launch strategy 

• Develop pricing consistent with the Marketing Strategy and brand positioning 

• Define performance criteria used for evaluating business trends and activities                                                                

WHAT YOU NEED: 

• Bachelor’s degree required 

• 6+ years of work experience required 

• 3+ years medical device or marketing/sales experience in Foot and Ankle or Sports Medicine preferred