Novanta is looking for a Product Manager to be responsible for a product or product group, developing product requirements based on market needs and customer feedback, and managing the product lifecycle from idea to discontinuation.
Requirements
- Requires extensive research, in-depth knowledge and creativity.
- Requires that complex problems are anticipated, identified, defined and resolved. Recommendations made by others are analyzed in order to solve issues bearing broad and long-term impact.
- Complex and varied problem-solving requires extensive diagnosis.
- Requires advanced knowledge of several specific fields of knowledge related to one of the company’s major business functions or of customer’s business requirements, specialized knowledge of product design and process management methods is also needed.
- Clinical indication and application knowledge in MIS
Responsibilities
- Retrieve and analyze feedback from customers٫ stakeholders and other teams to shape customer requirements٫ features and end products
- Create product concepts, plans and roadmaps for next generation products, and build product strategies consistent with company vision
- Create and own NPVs and contribute to phase gate process
- Prepare and review product requirements documents
- Perform product validation in a laboratory and clinical setting
- Manage product changes and discontinuations with Key Account Management
- Coordination of sustaining activities and PM-related Regulatory Processes as Clinical Evaluation, Post Market Surveillance, Post Market Clinical Follow-up, Usability
Other
- Accountability for revenue & gross margin for a product or product group
- Support Upstream / Marketing for Value Proposition, Pricing, Product Positioning and Mid-term Portfolio Strategy
- Collaborate with Upstream Marketing to build business cases for New Product Introduction
- Coordinate cross-functional teams and collaborate with customers, upstream / marketing, sales and R&D
- Executing Product Lifecycle management and competition analysis
- Contribution and support of risk management process
- Act as a Medical product consultant
- Strict compliance with the quality, occupational safety and environmental regulations.
- Implementation of the instructions of the quality / environmental management representative and the occupational safety specialist.
- Broad and deep functional experience. Typically acquired through 5 to 8 years of relevant work experience.
- Incumbent acts as advisor to less-experienced personnel. Required to train others. Exercises primarily technical and some process leadership.
- Travel by public transportation including train and airplane on demand
- Passport for international travel (customer & internal meetings)
- Mobility to work in a standard office setting and to use standard office equipment, including a computer.
