Product Manager Core Surgical Israel

At Medtronic you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation, while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. You’ll lead with purpose, breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected, compassionate world.

A Day in the Life

Are you a highly motivated professional with a strongly beating heart for marketing and who knows the operating rooms inside out? Are you familiar with (minimally invasive) surgery? Do you have strong business acumen, good analytical capabilities and above all a creative and innovation driven mindset?

As Product Manager you will be responsible for the Medical Surgical Operating Unit. You will function as an intermediate between the European product directors and marketeers and our Israeli Regional Sales Managers and their sales teams. Your job will be to locally ‘own’ and manage your portfolio from a marketing, financial and a supply chain perspective. You will play a key role in making the regional strategies a success, by creating a tailored marketing approach that reflects the dynamics of Israel, while maintaining budgetary stewardship and a close eye on profitability. You will partner closely with your colleague Product Managers and with the Disease State Manager within the marketing team and not to forget… with surgical Key Opinion Leaders and Health Care Professionals in your region.
Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned:

• Develop and implement marketing strategies and tactics for Israel, with a special focus on new product launches and growth drivers in your portfolio
• Set up and coordinate marketing campaigns, activities, as well as congresses and events for the Israeli market also incorporating digital marketing approaches and tools
• Develop new marketing content and localize existing European marketing content in compliance with Medtronic processes, standards and branding
• Monitor and communicate up and down stream portfolio performance, trends and major opportunities and threats on a regular basis
• Play a key role in demand forecasting, supply management and the (manual) allocation processes in close collaboration with Europe and the local Regional Sales Managers
• Work closely together with the sales team linked to product related questions, complaints handling, troubleshooting, tender preparations and product testing
• Train and update the local sales teams on your portfolio and drive consistent messaging towards customers about the added value that our products offer to them and their patients

Required Knowledge and Experience:

• Academic degree preferred in Marketing, Economics, Sales or Healthcare
• At least 4 years of relevant experience in sales or marketing within the medical field
• Fluent in English and Hebrew
• Ability to multitask, prioritize and manage projects in a structured way
• Persuasive personality able to makes things happen internally and externally

Physical Job Requirements

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position, but they are not an exhaustive list of all the required responsibilities and skills of this position. 

Benefits & Compensation

Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package
A commitment to our employees lives at the core of our values. We recognize their contributions. They share in the success they help to create.  We offer a wide range of benefits, resources, and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage.
 

About Medtronic

We lead global healthcare technology and boldly attack the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions.
Our Mission — to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life — unites a global team of 95,000+ passionate people. 
We are engineers at heart— putting ambitious ideas to work to generate real solutions for real people. From the R&D lab, to the factory floor, to the conference room, every one of us experiments, creates, builds, improves and solves. We have the talent, diverse perspectives, and guts to engineer the extraordinary.

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