Sr Product Manager

Job Summary

Under general supervision, manage the full product lifecycle including the sourcing, marketing, new product development, sales support and financial growth of assigned products for a small (or stand alone business unit).

Work with and train sales forces to be able to confidently sell product to customers. May have one or more Manager level direct reports.

Job Description

Under general supervision, manage and grow your program portfolio in the Distributed Products Division. This would including the marketing, development, sales support, and financial growth of assigned products.

Work with and train IDN sales force to be able to confidently sell products.

Responsibilities :

Work with vendors on pricing. Visit vendors to learn about products and train personnel in all aspects of each product and usages.

Coordinate materials with vendors and develop sales strategies.

• Develop and implement comprehensive marketing plans and promotional programs for existing products to include product strategy development, pricing strategy, collateral creation, and brand management
• Review monthly financial performance and determine contributing factors. Offer solutions for detrimental sales or cost trends.

Prepare product forecasts to include revenue and expense expectations. Analyze sales trends over time and impact of competitive strategies.

Support forecasts and budgets with appropriately detailed marketing plans.

• Develop and deliver training materials for internal stakeholders, sales forces and customers. Create sales tools.
• Conduct effective market research and translate that research into new products, product improvements, or line extensions by providing leadership to a multi-functional team.
• Travel with sales force to support efforts to convert customers to purchase assigned products. Provide timely follow up to sales forces by answering product questions via e-mail and phone.
• Develop and mentor staff through on-boarding, open communication, training and development opportunities and performance management processes;

build and maintain employee morale and motivation; ensure the team is appropriately staffed with required competencies.

Qualifications : Education

Education

Bachelor's degree.

Work Experience

• At least 5 years experience in marketing, sales, product management or clinical practice in the healthcare industry.
• Experience negotiating with outside vendors and internal resources.
• Experience collecting and analyzing financial data.
• Willing to travel up to 25% of the time for business purposes (within state and out of state).
• Intermediate level skill in Microsoft Word (for example : inserting headers, page breaks, page numbers and tables and / or adjusting table columns).
• Intermediate level skill in Microsoft PowerPoint (for example : applying a theme, formatting character spacing, inserting a picture, changing slide layout and theme colors, adding transitions, customizing slide numbers, changing chart style and / or formatting font).
• Intermediate level skill in Microsoft Excel (for example : using SUM function, setting borders, setting column width, inserting charts, using text wrap, sorting, setting headers and footers and / or print scaling).

Benefits - Medline is committed to offering competitive benefits and a variety of choices to best meet the needs of you and your family.

For employees scheduled to work at least 30 hours per week, this includes health and well-being, financial fitness, career development, paid time off and more.

Employees scheduled to work less than 30 hours per week can participate in the 401(k) plan, access the Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Employee Resource Groups (ERG) and Medline Service Corps.

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