About the position
The Senior Product Line Manager is a leading position with responsibility for all aspects of Radiographic Imaging products/solutions, from the development of roadmap strategies through the delivery of business results. The Senior PLM is the primary product/solution strategist and is responsible for understanding market needs, developing product/solution roadmaps, commercializing a product/solution and launching products/solutions to the market to achieve business results. The Senior PLM is part of the product development team and works with a broad network of Carestream colleagues covering all disciplines and all functional teams. The role works effectively using guidance and influence to affect change and improvement. Defining the customer requirements for new products by using their experience and knowledge. Will lead a team of direct reports focused on product line activities.
Responsibilities
- Understand the market trend and be able to interpret the market data for product strategy.
- Develop competitive landscape and analysis on products features & functions.
- Develop business case for new products and product roadmaps based on competitiveness, technology and industry trend.
- Create customer requirements documents for new product introductions.
- Implement product strategy and GTM strategy, own quoting tools setup with catalogs, descriptions and support local marketing and sales team with product knowledge transfer and training.
- Launch new products/solutions to the U.S market to reach the business objectives.
- Manage product/solution discontinuance as part of the product life cycle management.
- Work with finance, sales, service and operation team to achieve product P&L goal.
- Own wing-to-wing product performance including quality and financial metrics.
- Own key business partners for product definition and development.
- Lead or support Carestream DR portfolio for product development, product launch, Go-To-Market and product demo/show support.
- Lead and own the new business development opportunity where is possible or assigned by supervisor.
- Lead, coach and develop the team members with product management, marketing skill set and clinical knowledge.
Requirements
- Medical Industry experience with 5+ years in medical device product development or management or specialist or other related background.
- Understanding clinical applications of medical imaging equipment. Radiologist or clinical application background is desired.
- Understanding health care informatics, such as IHE, HL7, DICOM, EMR, Billing Systems and Practice Management Systems.
- Ability to access the competitive landscape: key competitive players in key countries, and its business models, product, and market strategy.
- Ability to create a winning strategy for a product or portfolio by thorough competitive analysis.
- Ability to make priority decisions on key product/portfolio attributes (features, cost, quality, time to market).
- Ability to project business results with early indicators of both internal sales force effectiveness and external market dynamics.
- Ability to lead cross-functional teams from product development, manufacturing to sales and service.
- Ability to communicate effectively with customers to understand and anticipate their needs.
Nice-to-haves
- Advance degree and/or Medical Imaging experience desirable.
Benefits
- $152,000 - $175,000 per year
