Sr. Product Planning Manager

We are seeking a Sr. Product Planning Manager who can shape the future of our Biomedical portfolio through innovation market analysis and strategic foresight. Our products are critical to the maintenance and performance of medical devices in a healthcare setting. Join us in our mission to deliver trusted solutions to those who keep healthcare up and running so they can focus on what matters most.

In this role you will lead with insightowning the front-end of the innovation process and qualifying investment priorities. Youll identify where the market is going uncover unmet customer needs and translate those insights into clear product strategies prioritized ideas to explore and scalable growth opportunities. This role is not just about managing productsits about defining what we should build next and why.

Who You Are

• Market-driven strategist who continuously scans for emerging trends unmet needs and disruptive opportunities
• Innovation leader who thrives in ambiguity and proactively develops new product concepts and business models ahead of market trends and customer needs
• Structured thinker who identifies and translates market insights into clear product and business level strategies business cases and roadmaps
• Skilled Influencer and communicator who aligns executives and cross-functional leaders around a common vision
• Customer-centric problem solver who balances user needs technical feasibility and business outcomes

Key Responsibilities Market Insight & Opportunity Identification

• Lead deep market and competitive analysis to identify whitespace opportunities and growth vectors in core and adjacent markets
• Own process to synthesize discovery Voice of Customer (VoC) industry trends and market insights into strategic opportunities to explore.
• Qualify and prioritize ideas by sizing markets product ideas defining customer problems and estimating levels of desirability viability and feasibility

Innovation & Product Strategy

• Champion a front-end innovation process from concept ideation through business case validation
• Develop clear product visions multi-year roadmaps and portfolio strategies
• Define and prioritize high-impact problems worth solving work with cross functional teams to test prototypes for product-market fit.
• Build and present business cases including financial modeling and ROI justification
• Drive new product planning frameworks including segmentation and value proposition design based on customer outcomes
• Define successful product lines setting features and requirements priorities that will achieve the expected customer and business outcomes

Product Execution & Portfolio Management

• Translate product vision and high-level product definitions to executable product requirements for development teams and portfolio product managers to execute
• Proactively engage portfolio product managers and commercial teams to manage the product lifecycle converting insights to prioritized core product roadmaps.
• Establish portfolio prioritization frameworks balancing growth roadmap ideas with core business needs

Qualifications Requirements

• MBA or equivalent strategic experience
• Bachelors degree in business Marketing Engineering or related field
• 5 years of product management or market-focused experience in a B2B technical environment
• Demonstrated success in driving business growth via innovation market-driven product planning and innovation strategy
• Strong experience with qualitative and quantitative market research methodologies
• Proven ability to build business cases and influence investment decisions
• Excellent communication and presentation skills

Preferred

• Experience in biomedical testing healthcare technology or radiation safety markets

Key Skills & Attributes

• Strategic thinking with strong front-end product planning capability
• Analytical rigor with creative problem-solving
• Ability to operate autonomously with high-level guidance
• Naturally leads through influence across all levels of the organization
• High levels of curiosity adaptability and a bias toward action
• Knowledge and advanced usage of AI based tools to improve quality and speed of output

What Success Looks Like

• A robust pipeline of validated high-impact product opportunities
• Discovery of new and attractive markets and unmet customer needs
• Clear insight-driven product strategies and roadmap priorities both core and new/adjacent markets
• Strong alignment across leadership and execution teams on what to build and why
• Regular release of new products that deliver measurable differentiation in the market and revenue growth