Director of Marketing, Commercial

As a global provider of medical technologies, Teleflex is driven by our purpose to improve the health and quality of people’s lives.

Through our vision to become the most trusted partner in healthcare, we offer a diverse portfolio with solutions in the therapy areas of anesthesia, emergency medicine, interventional cardiology and radiology, surgical, vascular access, and urology.

We believe that the potential of great people, purpose-driven innovation, and world-class products can shape the future direction of healthcare.

Make your application after reading the following skill and qualification requirements for this position.

Vascular Access Built on a history of innovation, our Arrow brand of technically advanced vascular access devices are renowned throughout the world.

Many of our vascular access products have antimicrobial and antithrombogenic protection designed to reduce vascular-related complications and include long and short dwell central venous catheters (CVC), sheath introducers, arterial lines, peripherally inserted central catheters (PICC), as well as specialty devices and an advanced vascular positioning system to facilitate precise placement of a PICC or CVC near the heart.

Join a dynamic, growing team that offers healthcare providers an array of medical technology solutions that make a difference in patients’ lives.

Position Summary

In collaboration with the Vice-President of Marketing, lead, manage and oversee execution of the North American marketing plan for downstream activities.

Ensure product, promotional and clinical program alignment to strategy to achieve the growth and profit expectation for the North American business unit.

• Manage and develop direct and indirect staff, attract top talent and provide professional development opportunities to staff.
• Provide the leadership necessary to direct the business in its mission to achieve the sales, gross margin and contribution profit objectives established by the Vascular division.
• Provide strategic guidance and supervise marketing and product managers. Act as passionate change agent to develop and expand specified market segments.
• Develop and implement strategic initiatives by optimizing resources across the Vascular team. In conjunction with manager, develop the annual North American operating plan for the Vascular Access business.
• Lead North American marketing launch plans for new products, clinical programs, and product improvements programs. Conduct market surveys, market research, and product evaluations for line extensions and support product evaluations for new product introductions.
• Provide all support to sales function to achieve annual sales plan and margin targets for the Vascular Access business.
• Develop and maintain OpEx and T&E budgets while ensuring a forecast accuracy of 5%.
• Work closely with Strategic Marketing relative to phase-gate process, product positioning / messaging and forecasting for new product opportunities.
• Understand healthcare reform and economic environment; ability to translate understanding to messaging within North American Vascular promotional strategy.
• Effective management of agency(ies) and vendors to ensure on-time project completion, within budget. Support RFI / RFP processes for GPO bids.
• Lead the marketing activities around becoming a solution provider that includes developing advertising and sales promotion programs, brochures, ads, slides, posters, and specification booklets.

Manage relationships with external vendors as needed.

• Lead the development of clinical papers, white papers and other resources needed to drive thought leadership.
• Establish strong KOL partnerships to ensure robust understanding of customer unmet needs to establish differentiated value propositions, deeper customer segmentation and buying criteria and needs.
• Develop pricing strategy and achieve price increase determined by the operating plan.
• Maintain extensive knowledge of competitive offering and strategies.
• Perform other duties as assigned by the Vice-President of Marketing.
• Adhere to and ensure compliance of Teleflex’s Code of Ethics, all Company policies, rules, procedures and housekeeping standards.

Education / Experience Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Business, or a related field; MBA preferred.
• 10+ years of marketing experience, with a proven track record in the medical device industry.
• 5+ years of direct leadership experience, including managing large-scale commercialization efforts.
• Deep understanding of healthcare reform and its impact on marketing strategies.

Specialized Skills / Other Requirements

• Exceptional strategic thinking and analytical skills, with the ability to translate insights into actionable plans.
• Strong communication and presentation skills, with the ability to influence at all levels of the organization.
• High level of business acumen and experience in managing complex projects across multiple teams.
• Ability to lead and motivate a group towards common goals / objectives, including working cross-functionally to drive consensus on decisions.
• Ability to drive focus, prioritization and effective time / project management.
• Self-starter, know-how to approach the job, passionate about the industry.
• Understand medical regulatory landscape.
• Demonstrate practical application of successful marketing / business / portfolio management concepts.
• Knowledge of measurement and analysis of commercial effectiveness.
• Superior public speaking, team building and human relations abilities.
• Excellent relationship building and collaborative skills.
• Unquestionable ethics and integrity.

At Teleflex, we follow a comprehensive hiring process. We do not accept unsolicited resumes from agency recruiters or 3rd party firms.

We do not make unsolicited job offers. We do not ask for money or require equipment purchase up-front.

Teleflex, Inc. is an affirmative action & equal opportunity employer. D / V / M / F. Applicants will be considered without regard to age, race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, marital status, affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, nationality, sex, or veteran status.

If you require accommodation to apply for a position, please contact us at : 877-880-8588 or [email protected].

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