Cardinal Health is a distributor of pharmaceuticals and a global manufacturer of medical products. The role focuses on developing and driving strategy for the Orthopedics and Neurosurgery procedural kit portfolios, managing product life cycles, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance product offerings.
Responsibilities:
- Develop / drive strategy and results for the Orthopedics and Neurosurgery procedural kit portfolios
- Responsible for upstream activities including procedural assessment, component lifecycle, and insight development
- Assists with the creation and global commercialization of products
- Demonstrate advanced knowledge of marketing and product management disciplines necessary for building business plans, product plans and roadmaps
- Utilize market trends, customer needs, and competitive positioning to develop preferred product offerings for targeted segments and channels
- Understand methods available to execute primary research that are necessary to drive product line/portfolio decisions and can identify market opportunities through primary and secondary market research and take action by implementing and managing solutions that meet customer needs
- Translate market and customer needs across multiple channels into clearly defined product requirements and product line strategy
- Understand and demonstrate sound thought processes as it relates to business cases, investment requests, forecasting, pricing, deal structures, and assessing strategic options
- Proactively gain insights into competitors, their products, pricing, unmet customer needs, and changing clinical practices through observation of operations and interactions with clinical staff
- Manage the product life cycle of a product line or a portfolio of product lines from discovery and innovation, to new product planning, new product introduction, post-launch product management, and product retirement
- Develop the product strategy for the product line(s), working with cross-functional teams
- Identify and remain current on market trends. Determine product lifecycle implications and make decisions to drive market competitiveness and to achieve sustainable economic success
- Demonstrate strong financial acumen and logical decision making in the general business environment
- Execute projects to drive penetration of Cardinal branded products
- Serve as a procedural/product expert for assigned product lines
- Strong ability to influence and work collaboratively with cross-functional teams including R&D, sourcing, manufacturing, sales operations, strategic pricing, finance, quality, regulatory, legal, inventory, and others
- Serve as an effective and inspirational leader to the product management team and cross-functional teams supporting product management
- Take informed risk and be biased toward action
Requirements:
- 8+ years of experience
- Bachelor's degree in related field, or equivalent work experience
- Previous Product Management experience
- Prior Healthcare industry experience