Manager, Product Management - Respiratory Health

This is where you save and sustain lives

At Baxter, we are deeply connected by our mission. No matter your role at Baxter, your work makes a positive impact on people around the world.

You’ll feel a sense of purpose throughout the organization, as we know our work improves outcomes for millions of patients.

Baxter’s products and therapies are found in almost every hospital worldwide, in clinics and in the home. For over 85 years, we have pioneered significant medical innovations that transform healthcare.

Together, we create a place where we are happy, successful and inspire each other. This is where you can do your best work.

Join us at the intersection of saving and sustaining lives where your purpose accelerates our mission.

This is a hybrid role with three days working in either our Irvine, CA or St Paul, MN location and two days working from you home office.

Your Role at Baxter

This is where your ideas lead to success

As a Global Upstream Product Manager - Respiratory Health , you have lots of ideas grounded in research and knowledge of the marketplace.

Your skills in planning and implementing these ideas are what make you an outstanding business partner and marketer. You critically think through problems and communicate your ideas in a way that helps us compete.

Your curiosity, love of learning, and active listening give you a significant understanding of healthcare and business.

And while you are a great teammate, you are also competitive determined to achieve results and get things done.

At Baxter, we're not just promoting the latest life-saving products; we're thinking strategically about getting products to those who need them by understanding the value they provide, the market where they are needed, and the approach to reach the right individuals.

Your Team

We develop quality products with the patient in mind, so our marketing efforts are also patient-centric. That means you can be proud of our work and the value we provide to people every day.

From your leaders to your peers, we operate as a team. We are focused on delivering for our patients and the business. We continue developing digital tools to enable efficiency and support a variety of learning and development opportunities.

What you'll be doing

This upstream product management role plans, coordinates, and leads products within the Respiratory Health home and acute care space from conceptual stages, through development to launch and manages product life cycle - including sustainment and discontinuation.

Global Product Management :

• Collaborates with a cross functional product team including engineering, commercial marketing, service, compliance, regulatory, quality, payers and sourcing to lead the entire product line life cycle, drive profitable growth, and maintain customer happiness and business goals
• Gains a deep understanding of customer needs and workflows, as well as identifies and fills product gaps and generates new insights for features / products that grow market share, improves customer experience, and drives growth.
• Works closely with the program managers and project managers on the development team to implement product strategy and recommend the nature and scope of present and future product features.
• Strategizes, plans, and prioritizes market, product and clinical research that identifies and defines opportunities to support business growth through sound clinical marketing evidence.
• Works with finance to develop cases to support project investment
• Partners with market research to understand market sizes, addressable segments, pricing, dynamics, competition, share position, customer drivers across multiple product lines
• Driver of the go-to-market strategy / process / plan for portfolio of products
• Provides oversight to management of product costs, has input to global pricing of applicable portfolio, and margin maintenance
• Partners with commercial marketing teams in all global regions to support effective product launches and ongoing portfolio management

Development and Implementation of Product Strategies

• Prepares portfolio strategy to achieve growth and profitability goals aligned with the corporate strategy
• Develops technology roadmaps together with R&D organization
• Assesses market potential for the right segment / targets, develops strategic business plan capitalizing on future market needs and opportunities
• Defines clinical research requirements to support the roadmap and product launches

Product Life Cycle Management

• Lifecycle management of products, including product launch, phase-out, incremental improvements, and line extensions
• Continuous monitoring of products during entire life cycle and initiation of vital actions
• Initiates and supports product phase out process, working with all cross-functional partners
• Coordinates and supports country registrations and global expansion initiatives
• Product training and education of the respective product segment

What you'll bring

• Bachelor’s degree in marketing, business, engineering, or equivalent degree required. MBA preferred
• 3+ years of Product Management / marketing experience in healthcare, medical devices or related fields required
• Experience with Respiratory products required; ventilation preferred
• Experience working with co located teams preferred
• Demonstrated excellence in product life cycle management, with strong knowledge / application of multifaceted marketing strategies
• Strong business insight and detailed knowledge of upstream / downstream marketing, sales, operations, regulatory, clinical and NPD processes
• Ability to travel approximately 25% of the time, including internationally, may also be required.

Baxter is committed to supporting the needs for flexibility in the workplace. We do so through our flexible workplace policy which includes a minimum of 3 days a week onsite.

This policy provides the benefits of connecting and collaborating in-person in support of our Mission.

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