Director, Global Product Management

Fresenius Medical Care is seeking a Director of Global Product Management to lead product strategy and lifecycle management for new products. The role involves cross-functional collaboration, ensuring launch readiness, and driving commercial success in the US market.

Responsibilities:

• Define and drive product strategy, roadmap, and lifecycle plans for new products, aligned with global priorities and US market requirements
• Own end-to-end lifecycle management, from development through launch, scale-up, and transition from legacy products
• Act as the single point of accountability for product performance against defined objectives and KPIs
• Drive critical trade-offs across timelines, cost, risk, and performance to ensure successful product outcomes
• Lead cross-functional alignment across R&D, Medical, Regulatory, Supply Chain, Quality, and Commercial teams
• Ensure end-to-end launch readiness, including regulatory approval, supply readiness, pricing, reimbursement, and commercialization
• Manage transition planning from legacy to new products, ensuring business continuity and risk mitigation
• Track progress against milestones, proactively identify risks, and drive timely resolution of escalations
• Develop a deep understanding of US customer needs, decision drivers, and clinical practice patterns in dialysis care
• Partner closely with US sales and marketing teams to drive adoption, penetration, and revenue growth post-launch
• Analyze competitive dynamics in the US market and define effective response strategies
• Support key customer engagements, tenders, and requests for proposals as needed
• Engage with senior leadership to align on priorities, provide clear updates, and support key decision-making
• Ensure compliance with FDA regulations, quality standards, and internal company SOPs
• Contribute to special projects, strategic initiatives, and business performance reviews as required
• Sales growth and market share of new and transitioned dialyzer products in the US
• On-time execution of strategic initiatives, milestones, budget, and quality
• Adoption rate in priority US markets and key accounts
• Revenue performance versus approved business case (first 12–24 months)
• Gross margin versus plan during post-launch ramp-up
• Successful phase-out execution, including inventory burn-down and legacy replacement
• Ability to travel domestically up to 20%

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree required
• 12+ years of experience in delivering on strategy and tactics with proven results
• Experience driving consumer demand medical product required
• Demonstrated success in leading large-scale, healthcare strategy and execution projects with proven commercial results and marketing leading results
• Excellent conceptual problem-solving skills, with demonstrated ability to bring structure to vaguely defined problems, pragmatically scope problem-solving approach, and manage execution from start to finish autonomously
• Ability to challenge the status quo, drive innovative thinking and provide superior leadership to the broader team in order to successfully execute the strategy
• Demonstrated aptitude for successfully managing/developing marketing and sales personnel and clinical personnel
• Strong project management and excellent written and verbal communication skills are necessary
• Strong quantitative and qualitative analytic skills, specifically marketing and financial analysis
• Strong experience in financial modeling, budgeting, forecasting, and developing business plans
• MBA strongly preferred
• Medical device or pharmaceutical sales experience preferred