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Stryker

Product Manager, Instruments

Cape Town

October 18, 2024

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We are looking for a Product Manager for Instruments to oversee the preparation and execution of marketing plans for launching and promoting assigned product lines within South Africa market. Responsibilities include developing marketing materials, planning promotional activities, providing training and support to the sales force, monitoring market trends, and enhancing market intelligence.


What you will do:

  • Understand key competitors and their relative strengths/weaknesses
  • Understand customer groups, including why customers buy the product or service approach for the product or portfolio
  • Understand the different marketing channel strategies and associated business implications
  • Track and report results/KPIs to leadership and sales
  • Understand key competitors and their relative strengths/weaknesses and maintains networks of people and resources for obtaining competitive information
  • Explain different product features to different customers as appropriate to their needs
  • Maintain customer engagement and deeply understands customer needs
  • Play a role in developing key strategy documents: strategic plan, annual marketing plan, product launch plans, etc.
  • Support the creation of Project Charters, CERs, and Business Case Financial Models as applicable
  • Understand competitive dynamics in the market
  • Understand what customers value and how they perceive different attributes of the product or portfolio
  • Articulate why the product or portfolio adds value or solves problems for the customer
  • Create marketing strategies to understand, develop, and enhance the relationship between the customer and the product or portfolio
  • Propose objectives for generating clinical evidence and evaluates studies
  • Tie the business goal of the product or portfolio to the overall goal of Stryker
  • Synthesize market trends and make recommendations on areas of strategic focus
  • Develop new strategies, sales tools, and communication plans for the product or portfolio
  • Apply clinical knowledge in combination with technical knowledge to educate and articulate value
  • Work closely with sales training/sales enablement to set the sales training strategy for the product or portfolio
  • Responsible for the obsolescence plan
  • Provide analytical support to set price
  • Articulate desired communications outcomes consistent with marketing strategy to Marketing & Communication team
  • Establish short-range and long-range improvement goals for the product management team, and under guidance, develop action plans to achieve those goals
  • Analyze customer satisfaction to assess trends in customer engagement, and incorporates trends into strategic planning
  • Provide marketing intelligence group with key objectives and inputs to drive customer insights

What you need:

Required:
  • Bachelor’s degree required
  • Minimum 3-4 years of relevant experience in medical device sales or marketing roles, specifically with capital equipment

Preferred:

  • MBA preferred
  • Excellent presentation and interpersonal communications skills
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Ability to manage multiple projects while delivering on established timelines
  • Ability to be persuasive in the absence of organizational authority
  • Must be able to understand and work within complex interdivisional procedures and policies
  • Demonstrated proficiency in Microsoft Office (Excel, Word & Power Point)
Stryker is a global leader in medical technologies and, together with its customers, is driven to make healthcare better. The company offers innovative products and services in Med Surg, Neurotechnology, Orthopaedics and Spine that help improve patient and healthcare outcomes. Alongside its customers around the world, Stryker impacts more than 150 million patients annually.
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