Senior Product Manager- Fertility Solutions- Livingston, NJ/Trumbull, CT

CooperSurgical, a CooperCompanies business unit, is a leading fertility and women’s healthcare company providing medical devices, assisted reproductive technology, and genomic testing solutions. The Senior Product Manager will manage IVF Equipment portfolio performance and future development through category strategy, lifecycle planning, pricing, customer insights, product requirements, and global commercialization. The role partners with cross-functional and global commercial teams to drive innovation and profitable growth.

Responsibilities:

• Lead category strategy, portfolio roadmap development, and lifecycle planning for assigned IVF Equipment categories, using customer insight, regional feedback, competitive intelligence, installed-base data, and business performance to guide product and portfolio decisions
• Define user needs, product requirements, value propositions, and business cases for new product innovation and lifecycle management projects. Partner with R&D, PMO, Regulatory, Quality, Service, Pricing, Finance, Business Development, and commercial teams to ensure product management input is clear, timely, and aligned with portfolio strategy
• Lead global launch strategy and execution, including positioning, go-to-market planning, commercial readiness, sales enablement, launch metrics, and post-launch performance tracking
• Maintain a detailed understanding of portfolio performance, including revenue, margin, market share, pricing, customer feedback, service considerations, and regional commercial needs
• Develop and execute product category growth strategies across the full product lifecycle, identifying opportunities to improve customer adoption, retention, competitive positioning, portfolio performance, and long-term profitable growth
• Own global pricing strategy for assigned product categories, including annual price optimization, price positioning, and pricing input for new product launches
• Drive lifecycle management activities, including portfolio optimization, rationalization, replacement opportunities, and product performance improvements
• Support cross-portfolio growth initiatives where relevant, including installed-base growth, replacement strategies, bundling, lab-build solutions, service-related offerings, and commercial excellence projects
• Communicate portfolio strategy, opportunities, risks, trade-offs, and recommendations clearly to senior stakeholders

Requirements:

• A minimum of 6 years of product management, global marketing, upstream marketing, or strategic marketing experience, preferably from medical devices, MedTech, diagnostics, life sciences, laboratory equipment, capital equipment, or other technically complex healthcare industries
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Business Administration, Marketing, or Science
• Analytical, strategic thinking, and problem-solving skills
• Strong business acumen
• Attention to detail and highly organized, while ensuring progress to meet deadlines
• Growth mindset with a proactive approach and drive for results
• Experience leading upstream marketing activities, including Voice-of-Customer, value proposition development, business cases, product requirements input, and commercial launches
• Strong experience developing and executing commercial marketing initiatives, including campaigns, go-to-market planning, segmentation, targeting, positioning, and sales enablement
• Strong interpersonal skills, with excellent networking and collaborative behavior across functions and regions
• Team player, while also able to work independently and effectively
• Strong communication and presentation skills. Able to create compelling PowerPoint presentations and detailed financial analysis in Excel
• Robust mindset and influential personality
• Proven ability to run multiple tasks concurrently in a fast-paced working environment and remain comfortable with sometimes short deadlines
• Scientific interest, technical understanding, and strong customer / market curiosity are essential
• Fluent English, spoken and written, is mandatory
• Experience with capital equipment, hardware/software-enabled products, connected devices, digital solutions, fertility, IVF, or laboratory workflows is considered a key advantage
• Experience developing global product, portfolio, or category strategies is a strong advantage
• Experience leading new product launches, including launch strategy, commercial readiness, go-to-market planning, sales enablement, and post-launch performance tracking, is a strong advantage
• Knowledge of IVF, fertility, embryology, laboratory workflows, high-tech medical devices, laboratory equipment, and/or software-enabled devices is considered a strong advantage