Innovation Manager Product Consultant - Acute Care Monitoring
The role of Product Consultant for the next-gen monitor and analytics is a crucial position within the Acute Care Monitoring business. Reporting to the Director of Marketing for the HealthCast portfolio, this role carries the responsibility of identifying customer needs and aligning them with broader business objectives.
You will play a key role in defining the success criteria for the product and inspiring a team to transform that vision into a reality. Your primary focus will involve developing and effectively communicating the roadmap to both internal and external stakeholders. Collaborating closely with the engineering team, you will jointly create a world-class solution.
Specifically, this position will oversee the HealthCast Hub Monitor roadmap, value proposition, and business cases, with a strong emphasis on analytics. Successful execution will require cross-functional collaboration with the software-focused product manager, identifying strategic partnerships, and making independent prioritization decisions while keeping patient and customer outcomes at the forefront.
To excel in this role, strong business acumen is essential, along with the ability to work across teams to execute the roadmap, effectively communicate at all levels of the organization, prioritize development efforts, exert influence without formal authority, and successfully chart a direction for the organization
Acute Care Monitoring is part of the Surgical Portfolio.A Day in the Life
- Develop, align, and implement a product vision, strategy, and roadmap across HealthCast’ businesses and global regions.
- Align with your portfolio leader and senior leadership on product priorities.
- Effectively and efficiently deliver results by working with various product groups (COTs), strategy team, hardware and software development teams.
- Drive global demand forecasting while partnering with operations to maximize supply and marketing teams to increase utilization.
- Determine customer needs, assess potential solutions, develop business case for investments and plan initial marketing messages.
- Translate data and analytics into product roadmap strategies and track the performance of the product and make informed decisions about future product development.
- Own competitive intelligence for your products, understand near and long-term implications for your product, and develop product strategies and tactics to defend against or overcome competitive actions.
- Manage technical debt reducing existing debt, considering implications of new features and requests.
- Continuous technical scanning to anticipate and plan for developments and technological changes across global regions.
- Drive launch planning for upcoming releases.
- Capture voice of customer and translate to features and enhancements for the platforms as well as prioritization decisions.
- Travel approximately 40%
- Bachelors degree required
- 10+ years’ experience in a product marketing/management, technical, clinical, or commercial role in a regulated industry is required, 8 years with and Advanced degree
Nice to Have
- MBA or other Master’s
- Product management experience in a regulated industry
- Experience in working with global teams from different cultures
- Experience in patient monitors in hospitals and analytics
- Experience in understanding and creating improved and new clinical workflows and analytics to enable the delivery of improved patient care
- Acute understanding of patient monitoring and workflow in hospitals, especially in OR, ICU, PACU, and stepdown
- Acute understanding of the hospital IT environment and how patient monitor data integrates with EMR systems
- Previous experience driving voice of stakeholder activities, product definition, program scope
- Experienced in business and financial modeling
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Physical Job Requirements
The physical demands described within the Responsibilities section of this job description are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. For Office Roles: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to be independently mobile. The employee is also required to interact with a computer, and communicate with peers and co-workers. Contact your manager, recruiter or local HR to understand the Work Conditions and Physical requirements that may be specific to each role. (ADA-United States of America)
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