Senior Product Manager

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Senior Product Manager

You will play a pivotal marketing role at Diagnostic X-Ray (DXR) and drive creation of solutions (integrated combination of products and services) from idea to market. You will be accountable for defining, launching and building profitable product solutions that transform healthcare. You will work directly with the different functions within the organization and maintains a balanced development scope. This will not only ensure the products/solutions are developed to the feature and price specifications that each target market segment demands but also will deliver a profitable and performing product in all its aspects.

The Product Manager owns the product lifecycle from concept phase through development and launch and eventually, end of life. You are required to have expertise in market segmentation, product strategy, competitive strategy, and product development.

Your role:

• Join corporate core teams to drive implementation (plan, execute, track, and communicate) of strategic marketing initiatives at DXR.
• Own your product and its performance during its complete lifecycle from concept phase throughout development and launch, till end of life.
• Support and drive upstream marketing activities for the solution, including definition of the strategy and its enablers as well as its alignment with key markets globally.
• Translate in-depth customer and market insights to support the product strategy: analyze the customers, markets, the competition, and the trends to create winning concepts, value propositions and clear product specifications to ensure delivering according to the customer’s needs and expectations.
• Drive the development of business cases to prioritize investments
• Interact with various disciplines including Research, R&D departments, internal and external design agencies, suppliers, industrialization, marketing management, marketing communication and international sales organizations.
• Be a key core team member in product development and lifecycle management teams.
• Drive the market readiness as part of PDLM. Ensure completion of appropriate deliverables (feature descriptions, value propositions, costing/pricing/quoting materials, etc.)
• Follow a lean way of working and a continuous improvement mindset within the product management team.

You are a part of The Diagnostic X-ray product management team of Philips Healthcare and become part of the global marketing department. You will be based in Pune and report into the Head of Product Management and be working in an international network of various stakeholders based across the globe. The team operates in an open, ‘can-do’ atmosphere. The team is characterized by a “self-starting” mentality.

In the team we focus on translating the customer voice in medical products, solutions and services. We manage a wide Radiography and Fluoroscopy portfolio targeting the global health market contributing directly to the growth of the business.

You are the right fit:

• Bachelor or master’s degree in marketing, business administration, medical engineering or similar
• 5 to 10 years related experience in product management and marketing in the medical device industry
• Ability to relate and communicate with different levels and functions in the organization to drive the development of market leading solutions.
• Ability to take ownership, identify, and remove roadblocks regardless of direct responsibilities
• Expertise delivering complex projects to meet demanding cost, quality and introduction date targets
• Ability to motivate, guide and drive project teams working on complex projects to successful outcomes
• Highly entrepreneurial; both analytical and hands-on to driving business growth (result oriented)
• Ability to assess and synthesize customer needs and feedback, translate those into a winning value proposition and actionable solution specifications; comfortable with making tradeoffs, decisively
• Ability to excite sales teams and customers with ideas about new products (and transfer those ideas to Best in Class Marcom and Training materials)
• Ability to work well under pressure and deliver to deadlines
• Excellent communication skills (sending and receiving)
• Strong in English language

How we work together:
We believe that we are better together than apart. For our office-based teams, this means working in-person at least 3 days per week.

Onsite roles require full-time presence in the company’s facilities.

Field roles are most effectively done outside of the company’s main facilities, generally at the customers’ or suppliers’ locations.

This role is an office-based role.

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