New Product Planning Manager - Cardiac Solutions

ZOLL Medical Corporation provides medical devices, software, and related services to improve outcomes for patients with serious cardiopulmonary and respiratory conditions. The New Product Planning Manager will lead strategies for the LifeVest cardiac solutions portfolio, conduct market research, generate insights, and develop and commercialize new products and enhancements. The role will also create business cases, define requirements, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive profitable portfolio growth.

Responsibilities:

• Support and execute global strategies and tactics to drive continued adoption of LifeVest offerings as standard of care, meeting or exceed the revenue plan and profit objectives, through close partnership with the R&D team, regulatory team, product marketing team, medical and clinical affairs team, monitoring center (IDTF) team, and reimbursement team
• Partner with New Product Planning manager to define, launch, and build profitable solutions that transform the ZOLL LifeVest product portfolio
• Lead and perform comprehensive market research patients and clinicians who are part of cardiac care workflows
• Generate compelling market insights based on research, data, and other acquired inputs
• Co-Develop short and long-term strategies based on derived insights, business objectives, and other identified patient, clinical, and technology trends
• Work closely with new product development, regulatory, clinical, marketing, and external partners to develop and commercialize solutions
• Create key marketing requirement documents to enable successful development
• Develop business requirements for new product and enhancements to existing products; work with R&D on functional specifications and feature/function prioritization
• Develop business cases for new products and solutions for consideration in the portfolio planning process
• Obtain global customer requirements via market research activities, market analysis, and on-going communication with global marketing and sales

Requirements:

• • Bachelor's Degree in business or engineering related discipline required and
• • Minimum of 5 to 7 years of experience in new product planning, product management, or strategy
    required
• • Excellent analytical, strategic thinking, and problem-solving skills, and strong business acumen required
• • Strong verbal and written communication skills, and well-honed interpersonal and leadership skills are required
• • Independent thinking and a high level of initiative and the ability to interact well with patients, physicians, customers, and key opinion leaders are essential
• • Demonstrated knowledge of new product planning and strategic planning processes required
• • Must be an effective leader in a matrixed environment
• • Demonstrated leadership in product development (taking solutions from conception to release), product management, and project management, required
• • Ability to interpret and convey clinical data required
• • Approximately 30% travel required
• • While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to sit, talk and hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand and walk. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds
• • MBA preferred
• • Cardiology new product planning experience preferred
• • Working knowledge of wireless communication technologies, clinical systems and their application in the healthcare environment, preferred