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Job Summary:
Kerr Dental is seeking a Global Product Manager responsible for the complete product lifecycle management of assigned product categories globally. This role involves managing on-market products, developing new product strategies, and ensuring effective communication with stakeholders to meet business objectives.
Responsibilities:
• Delivers product revenue and margin for category portfolio, leveraging market dynamics, customer insights, product differentiation, and marketing strategies.
• Manage effective relationships and lines of communication with key stakeholders, including suppliers, customer service, operations, and commercial teams to support business objectives.
• Works closely with key stakeholders when analyzing the market, competition, clinical, and customer needs to identify customer challenges and develop category strategy and product roadmap to meet customer needs and deliver on business objectives.
• Creates and implements go-to-market strategies and programs to drive the successful launch of new products, including product training.
• Develops positioning and value propositions for all products within assigned category and collaborates with Marketing on messaging.
• Develops all product claims and for maintaining product claims matrices.
• Manages product lifecycle for the Kerr product portfolio, including identification and execution of product obsolescence, globally or regionally.
• Serves as product / market expert related to product positioning, competition, product performance and market trends.
• Maintains a strong understanding of global market dynamics and competitive environment and impact on business unit results.
• Accountable for pricing strategy and update execution for assigned categories.
• Attends, understands, and actively participates in Daily Management meetings to stay abreast of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and top priorities.
• Champions and participates in continuous improvement activities under the Envista Business System (EBS) to contribute to a high-performing team.
• Travels up to 10% travel domestically and internationally via ground and/or air.
Qualifications:
Required:
• Bachelor's degree in marketing, business, or related field required.
• 4+ years of global product management experience in medical devices or any regulated corporate environment; with demonstrated success in all aspects of product management (ideation, VOC, business case, product development, FDA registrations, commercialization, and pricing).
• Must reside within a commutable distance to Brea, CA. This is not a remote opportunity.
• Ability to travel up to 25% domestically & globally
• Detail-oriented and the ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists required.
• Ability to think critically and in tactical and strategic dimensions simultaneously required.
• Skills, knowledge, and aptitude to engage, influence, and direct all functions involved in the project required.
• Solid organizational skills and ability to handle multiple tasks/projects simultaneously required.
• Strong financial acumen and ability to articulate a business case required.
• Ability to adapt to changing priorities in a fast-paced environment required.
• Strong data analytics skills and intermediate Microsoft Office Suite skills including Word, Excel, and Outlook required.
• Proficient in using project management tools to develop schedules, allocate resources, and establish program budgets required.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills in English required.
• Exceptional presentation skills required.
Preferred:
• Graduate degree or MBA preferred.
• Experience working through distribution as well as a direct model highly preferred.
Company:
Kerr is a premier dental solutions provider committed to exceptional customer experience. Founded in 1891, the company is headquartered in Orange, USA, with a team of 1001-5000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.