Senior Product Strategist - Military veterans preferred

2024-10-31
Acumed LLC
Other

/yr

  employee   contract


Charlottesville
Virginia
22901
United States


Acumed LLC


Position Title: Senior Product Strategist

Company: MicroAire Surgical Instruments LLC

Reg ID: JR0000023866

Location: Charlottesville, VA

Time Type: Full time


Description:

MicroAire Surgical Instruments LLC

Come join a team where People make the difference! As a part of Marmon Holdings, Inc., a highly decentralized organization, we rely heavily on people with the aptitude, attitude, and entrepreneurial spirit to drive our success, and we're committed to attracting and retaining top talent.

About MicroAire:

MicroAire Surgical Instruments, a mid-sized medical device company in Charlottesville Virginia, is seeking a Sr. Product Strategist. MicroAire is one of five companies within the medical group of Marmon Holdings. under Berkshire Hathaway, Inc. We strive to create a culture of inclusion, where everyone feels welcomed, valued, and empowered to flourish so that you can get a small company experience that will allow you to see your personal impact on the organization, while also having the financial security provided by the 8th largest company in the world.

About the Job:

The Senior Product Strategist will set the future direction for business and support company thinking on where to channel its resources to win in the short, mid, and long term. Develops strategy and product roadmap for the innovation department. The Senior Product Strategist is customer focused and drives value proposition from concept up to commercialization. Collaborates across functions and is considered a thoughtful, constructive, strategic and an action-oriented leader the teams wants to follow. Adipose Tissue procedures will be the primary focus in the short to midterm.

Key Responsibilities:

Market Intelligence and Voice of the Customer

  • Attends surgery as needed to develop in-depth understanding of clinical applications, workflows, and user needs.
  • Supports the monitoring of competitive landscape and factors trends into concept strategies.
  • Converts voice of the customer (VOC) based market insights captured by Product Management into device user needs and design inputs.
  • Drives further in-depth VOC as needed for new product concepts to ensure user needs and design inputs are well understood.
  • Supports Primary and Secondary Clinical Research

Innovation

  • In alignment with company strategy, supports the new product pipeline portfolio planning and innovation strategy.
  • Drives the execution of the concept strategy and opportunity process for new products with support from innovation team.
  • Builds financial models based on market size, number of procedures, target customer segments, cost, price, and future forecasting with support and alignment to Sales and Product Management.
  • Supports product development team from concept to commercialization with focus on value drivers for customers.
  • Drives formative usability efforts with support from Innovation Team. Supports summative usability efforts during development. Expected to lead customer facing events.
  • Supports product development team with expert technical input and review of appropriate design content (e.g., Usability Engineering, Risk Management, Product Trace Matrix, labeling).
  • Supports regulatory path planning and FDA/notified body submissions.
  • Responsible for coordinating Instructions for Use content during product development.

Qualifications & Skills

Education Requirements: B.S. or B.A. degree required (Marketing or Engineering preferred), master’s degree a plus (Business Administration, Marketing or Engineering preferred);

Experience Requirements: Minimum of 5 years of product management experience required with responsibility over strategy. Medical device industry experienced preferred, but not required.

Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to work with MicroAire cross-functional team members, surgeon consultants, and sales agents/distributors

Must have a solid understanding of market planning, business and product development, product strategy, financial analysis/budgeting and market research.

Must be able to demonstrate knowledge and experience(s) with new product development and product management from concept inception to commercialization.

Other qualification requirements include creativity with equal emphasis on strategic and tactical planning; excellent oral/written communication skills, strong leadership qualities and ability to work with others under a dynamic working environment.

Demonstrated critical thinking and decision-making capabilities

Ability to understand and apply financial acumen

Ability to prioritize and work independently with minimal supervision

Proficiency in Microsoft Office, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook

Compensation/Benefits:

  • Target $130,000 annual compensation (depending on previous experience)
  • 401K with company match
  • Medical/Dental/Vision
  • Vacation & Paid Holidays
  • Connection with Marmon Holdings companywide initiatives

Following receipt of a conditional offer of employment, candidates will be required to complete additional job-related screening processes as permitted or required by applicable law.

We are an equal opportunity employer, and all applicants will be considered for employment without attention to their membership in any protected class. If you require any reasonable accommodation to complete your application or any part of the recruiting process, please email your request to careers@marmon.com, and please be sure to include the title and the location of the position for which you are applying.



About Us:

With more than 100 autonomous manufacturing and service businesses, Marmon Holdings, Inc. may be the biggest company you’ve never heard of. Part of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., Marmon is a global industrial organization comprising 11 diverse groups with 20,000-plus employees and $10 billion in annual revenue.

As leaders in every industry we serve, Marmon companies have earned a great degree of independence. And our people thrive on an entrepreneurial spirit. At the same time, our group structure gives every Marmon company access to the expertise of other Marmon companies serving the same or related markets and customers – all with the support of the entire Marmon organization.

Working together, we become something more than the sum of our parts. We become the most reliable solution provider for a broad range of industries and customers worldwide.

In every case, Marmon’s success is due to our people. People with talent, drive and high ethical standards. People who are following their passions and building their careers across Marmon.

Want to learn and perfect your craft? Want to sharpen your skills while helping to solve challenges for our customers and our world? Looking for a chance to grow within – or perhaps outside – your field? Find a Marmon company that matches your passion. And see what you can do with the support of a team that values your contribution.




Acumed is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, status as a protected veteran, among other things, or status as a qualified individual with a disability.



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