Global Product Manager – Sound Processors

Global Product Manager – Sound Processors

Are you ready to make a difference for people with a severe hearing disability? Do you have a passion for bringing new customer-oriented solutions to the market? Do you have a can-do attitude and a strong commercial mindset?

Then we have an exciting opportunity for you at Oticon Medical in Göteborg, Sweden.

In your role as Global Product Manager – Sound Processor, you will be driving the process of developing the right innovative products and services in the sound processor area for the future. You will take on the responsibility for developing the right solutions, taking them to the market in the most impactful way and maintain the portfolio in the marketplace.

Why join Oticon Medical

Joining us, you will get the opportunity to work with something that matters! What we do makes an enormous difference for people, and we constantly strive to improve ourselves. This has led us to a point where we have a portfolio of top-of-the-line products, some of the best employees in the field and consequently a strong financial growth.

The role includes responsibilities described below.

• Gathering necessary insights by understanding end-users, customers and care provider structures, reimbursement systems as well as competitors’ offerings, and transform this into competitive experience requests
• Accountable for the sound processors portfolios and securing the realization of the business potential across the individual releases
• Responsibility for the commercial success of the product range
• Represent product management in development projects to ensure the best and most relevant solutions for the customer and the market they are delivered.
• Ensure product management input according to development processes
• Ensuring commercial input to the organisation
• Together with marketing communication team ensure the right messaging and campaigns to support launch of new products
• Accountable for a competitive product portfolio in the marketplace
• Phase-out strategies
• Monitor delivered results and outcomes, provide business analysis and post-market surveillance
• Tender support to sales companies
• 3^rd level product support to markets

You will report to Director, Product Management

 The experience and skills needed to be successful in the role

For you to succeed in this position, we will require the following skills and experience:

• Commercial understanding of the medical device industry
• Product Management experience
• Experience from global product development projects
• Technical flair for understanding sound processors and audiology
• Languages: English fluently and preferably Swedish
• University degree: Master or Bachelor in relevant area
• Preferably based in the Gothenburg area
• Experience from the medical business is meriting

You have an analytical mind-set, and with your experience from developing medical devices you can break down complex tasks and problems into manageable activities and priorities. You have a strong sense for what drives sales. On a personal level you are a team player who finds it inspiring to discuss challenges with colleagues, but who also can work alone, initiate, and conduct tasks by yourself. You have a commercial approach, and you also acknowledge the development viewpoint and can be pragmatic and results oriented in your approach to get things done. You are experienced in both internal and external stakeholder management and find it easy to connect with colleagues and connections that work at a different location than yourself. You comfortable presenting in front of an audience.

Even in periods with thigh deadlines and multiple ongoing projects you keep calm and manage keeping track of both tasks and stakeholders.

Finally, yet importantly, your future colleagues can’t wait to benefit from your professional mind-set and never fading optimism.

Application

This recruitment is handled by Moveup Consulting AB. To apply, please send your CV and a cover letter to Annie Sjölund, annie.sjolund@moveup.se. We are screening applications continuously and will close the position as soon as we find the right person.

If you have questions regarding Oticon or this open position, please contact Annie at 0733 – 60 29 84.

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