Product Manager Medical Devices

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At Novanta, our innovations power technology products that are transforming healthcare and advanced manufacturing—improving productivity, enhancing people’s lives and redefining what’s possible. We create for our global customers engineered components and sub-systems that deliver extreme precision and performance for a range of mission-critical applications—from minimally invasive surgery to robotics to 3D metal printing.

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This position is part of Novanta’s Advanced Surgery business unit group. Novanta offers highly reliable, precise and safe solutions that enhance system performance and improve patient outcomes. Insufflators, pumps and disposable tube sets, along with medical visualization and operating room integration technologies are the preferred solution for minimally invasive surgery applications.

Summary

The Product Manager is held responsible for a product or product group. Based on market needs and voice of customer, the employee develops product requirements, and actively manages the related portfolio from product idea until discontinuation, and develops all necessary documentation following PM-related regulative processes and sustaining activities.

Primary Responsibilities

• Retrieve and analyse feedback from customers, stakeholders and other teams to define customer requirements and product features
• Accountability for revenue & gross margin for a product or product group
• Create product concepts, business cases and accompany development project from product management side
• Develop roadmaps for next generation products, and build product strategies consistent with company vision
• Cross-functional collaboration with associated departments like Upstream Marketing, Sales, Regulatory Affairs, Medical Affairs and R&D
• Support Upstream / Marketing for Value Proposition, Pricing, Product Positioning and Mid-term Portfolio Strategy
• Perform product validation in a laboratory and clinical setting
• Manage product changes and discontinuations with Key Account Management
• Executing Product Lifecycle management and competition analysis, contribution and support of risk management process
• Coordination of sustaining activities and post market activities like Clinical Evaluation, Post Market Surveillance, Post Market Clinical Follow-up
• Act as a Medical product consultant

General Tasks

• Strict compliance with the quality, occupational safety and environmental regulations.
• Implementation of the instructions of the quality / environmental management representative and the occupational safety specialist.

Required Experience, Education, Skills, Training and Competencies

• Retrieve and analyse feedback from customers, stakeholders and other teams to define customer requirements and product features
• Accountability for revenue & gross margin for a product or product group
• Create product concepts, business cases and accompany development project from product management side
• Develop roadmaps for next generation products, and build product strategies consistent with company vision
• Cross-functional collaboration with associated departments like Upstream Marketing, Sales, Regulatory Affairs, Medical Affairs and R&D
• Support Upstream / Marketing for Value Proposition, Pricing, Product Positioning and Mid-term Portfolio Strategy
• Perform product validation in a laboratory and clinical setting
• Manage product changes and discontinuations with Key Account Management
• Executing Product Lifecycle management and competition analysis, contribution and support of risk management process
• Coordination of sustaining activities and post market activities like Clinical Evaluation, Post Market Surveillance, Post Market Clinical Follow-up
• Act as a Medical product consultant

Travel Requirements

• Willingness to travel worldwide (up to 25% of working time)
• Passport for international travel