Product Manager(Neuro Vascular & Peripheral)

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Job details

Company overview

We offer a wide range of medical equipment including orthopedic, neurosurgical, emergency medical, and operating room products. These include, among others, artificial joints, implants for bone fracture treatment, endoscopes, surgical instruments, and automated cardiac massage systems. Focusing on customer needs, the company strives to improve the quality of medical care through innovative products. We also continue to maintain a "rewarding work environment" by focusing on employee growth and improving the work environment.

Responsibilities

• Understand key competitors and their relative strengths/weaknesses

• Understand customer groups, including why customers buy the product or service approach for the product or portfolio

• Understand the different marketing channel strategies and associated business implications

• Track and report results/KPIs to leadership and sales

• Understand key competitors and their relative strengths/weaknesses and maintains networks of people and resources for obtaining competitive information

• Explain different product features to different customers as appropriate to their needs

• Maintain customer engagement and deeply understands customer needs

• Play a role in developing key strategy documents: strategic plan, annual marketing plan, product launch plans, etc

• Support the creation of Project Charters, CERs, and Business Case Financial Models as applicable

• Understand competitive dynamics in the market

• Understand what customers value and how they perceive different attributes of the product or portfolio

• Articulate why the product or portfolio adds value or solves problems for the customer

• Create marketing strategies to understand, develop, and enhance the relationship between the customer and the product or portfolio

• Propose objectives for generating clinical evidence and evaluates studies

• Tie the business goal of the product or portfolio to the overall goal

• Synthesize market trends and make recommendations on areas of strategic focus

• Develop new strategies, sales tools, and communication plans for the product or portfolio

• Apply clinical knowledge in combination with technical knowledge to educate and articulate value

• Work closely with sales training/sales enablement to set the sales training strategy for the product or portfolio

• Responsible for the obsolescence plan

• Provide analytical support to set price

• Articulate desired communications outcomes consistent with marketing strategy to MarComm team

• Establish short-range and long-range improvement goals for the product management team, and under guidance, develop action plans to achieve those goals

• Analyze customer satisfaction to assess trends in customer engagement, and incorporates trends into strategic planning

• Provide marketing intelligence group with key objectives and inputs to drive customer insights

Requirements

Minimum Qualifications (Required):

• Bachelor’s degree required

• 4+ years of work experience required

 

Preferred Qualifications (Strongly desired):

• MBA preferred

• 2+ years medical device or marketing experience preferred

• Excellent presentation and interpersonal communications skills

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

• Ability to manage multiple projects while delivering on established timelines

• Ability to be persuasive in the absence of organizational authority

• Must be able to understand and work within complex interdivisional procedures and policies

• Demonstrated proficiency in Microsoft Office (Excel, Word & PowerPoint)

Salary

6 - 9 million yen

Location

Tokyo