Product Manager - Medical Devices

Inspiration Healthcare is looking for a Product Manager to manage a portion of the Company’s existing and future neonatal therapy product range, throughout all stages of the product lifecycle: inception, launch, sustaining events, end of production, and end of life. 

The role requires close collaboration with Sales, Marketing, R&D, RA/QA, service teams, Supply Chain, and Manufacturing to ensure that products are launched within desired timelines and sales targets are met.

Main Duties and Responsibilities:

• Develop and manage a strategic product roadmap for the neonatal ventilation product range;
• Gather market data to support new product ideas and development
• Draw insights from research and feedback to further develop the product range and product positioning.
• Create, develop, present, and maintain product roadmap to drive new product development.
• Drive lifecycle of products from ‘cradle to grave’ with detailed launch plans that include market analysis through to end-of-life plans.
• Work with R&D to prioritize roadmap delivery plans
• Work with R&D to create and release detailed user documents such as user needs documents and marketing requirements document based on market research.
• Help create specification documents for the development of the product line
• Help R&D create usability test case scenarios with the aid of clinical education for the further development of the product range
• Help develop pricing strategy for range extensions and new products;
• Deliver sales training, clinical arguments, supporting data, objection handling, customer concerns, and FAQs relating to the product portfolio
• Provide product support to training partners, sales team, service team, distributors, and customers on the use of products as needed
• Draw insights from business trends, competitor analysis, and customer feedback that can be derived into User Needs and a Product Development Matrix.
• Attend and participate in congresses and industry events related to our target market space.
• Work to develop relationships with KOLs to provide informative feedback on market activity and upcoming trends.
• Participate in strategic product planning meetings;
• Organise and attend product development meetings;
• Produce blog articles, White Papers, and Sales & Marketing Update documents as required;
• Liaise with Marketing to ensure that up-to-date product literature is available
• Help to plan sales promotions as needed
• Assist in identifying opportunities for social media and website campaigns, that will lead to an increase in product awareness and sales opportunities;
• Work with the Clinical team to develop an online training platform to be used internally and externally.
• Work with the Clinical teams to create and maintain the product claims matrix
• Liaise with Supply Chain, Finance, and other areas of the business as required for product development and support.
• Submit monthly reports on past month’s activities & goals, reporting and providing analysis on sales revenues and margins, future activities and events, etc.
• Help to identify potential new products for distribution by Inspiration Healthcare that coordinate with existing portfolio

Management Responsibilities:

None

Requirements

Experience and Qualifications Required:

Mandatory:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, science, technical field, or equivalent experienceis desired,
• Extensive experience in a Product Manager role
• Clinical and practical knowledge of product application
• Previous experience with respiratory devices

Desirable:

• Understanding and application of healthcare guidance, regulations, and quality standards in the UK and international markets.
• Global experience as a product manager

Key Skills and Competencies:

• An enthusiasm for and an interest in neonatal and adult critical care
• An enthusiasm and an interest in product research and development
• Knowledge of how to build market dynamics, understand business trends, and competitive positioning;
• Able to learn quickly and establish a high degree of knowledge and expertise in different markets;
• Able to affect opinions and influence decisions through the use of persuasive, intelligent arguments, whilst maintaining integrity and respect;
• An ability to devise sales strategy from market needs and to be able to translate this information to a broader audience;
• Strong prioritisation, time management and collaborative relationship management skills;
• Positive minded, solution-oriented and the ability to strive for success regardless of difficulties encountered;
• Excellent interpersonal, communication, presentation and report writing skills;
• Confident and assertive personality, an open and approachable manner, strong analytical skills, highly driven, self-motivated and a strong team player;
• Knowledgeable of quality assurance principles and policies;
• Respectful of and responsive to the requirements and needs of others, and to demonstrate an ability to work well within a team environment;
• An ability to convey the Company in the most professional manner and to support fully at all times the Company’s desire to be the best;
• An ability to gain and maintain the confidence, trust, and acceptance from all people, including customers, distributors, suppliers, and other employees;
• To demonstrate a consistent and sustained focus and commitment to achieving targets and timescales, despite setbacks and challenging situations;
• Able to support and demonstrate a respectful and responsible attitude towards the Company, our rules and regulations, our policies and procedures, our culture, our objectives and our ambitions;
• E-literate and competent in developing, administering and using PC and associated networks and systems to acquire, manipulate and disseminate information.

Other Information

As well as being dedicated to providing a great place to work in a rewarding, stimulating and environmentally conscientious environment, we offer an extensive range of benefits, listed below, and actively support learning and development opportunities for all:

• 25 days' holiday pa, rising to 28, plus bank holidays
• Blended working options
• Enhanced pension scheme (with salary sacrifice option)
• Bonus schemes
• Sharesave scheme
• Mind & body wellbeing support
• Healthcare cash plan
• Retailer discounts
• Life assurance
• Enhanced and equal leave & pay for new parents
• Cycle to Work
• SmartTech scheme
• Electric Car Benefit
• Employee referral scheme
• Travel season ticket loan