Does helping to make life better for millions of people motivate you? 

If the answer is yes, you think just like us. We are a world-leading medical solutions company, designing and supplying medical solutions to enhance performance in healthcare – from the hospital to the home. 

We’re looking for people who want to improve outcomes for healthcare professionals and their patients. 

Continuing to invest in our future, we are looking to hire a Product Manager Surgical based in France. 

As an integral part of the marketing team in France you will bring an immediate positive impact through your dynamism, positive attitude and savoir-faire. You will be responsible for and have ownership of an important part of our Surgical Solutions product range in France. 

Responsibilities:

• Develop market knowledge, update and analyze market opportunities and competition in order to meet strategic issues.
• Develop and implement short and long-term business plans for specified products in order to achieve sales, profitability, and market share targets.
• Develop relevant products assortments within international guidelines in order to increase customer satisfaction and maximize product profitability.
• Collaborate with Global Marketing (HQ) on assortment management in order to ensure best assortments/products/marketing offers for our market. Provide regular feedback to H.Q. on French sales performance and market needs.
• Monitor performance of designated products against plan (sales/benefits/market share) and initiate changes to the plan / strategy to ensure targets are met. Develop specific scorecards.
• Develop Sales Support Materials - printed, digital and Training - in cooperation with the Comm print and Digital, internal and external stakeholders and Training partners to support sales efficiency.
• Provide on-going support to the sales force / customers / internal stakeholders.
• Ensure that all communication about products or company is in line with internal guidelines & the regulatory environment.
• Coordinate new product launches.
• Manage pre and post launch product user evaluations.
• Monitor short and mid-term sales trends of designated products to provide a monthly forecast (MBM process).
• Develop & implement different marketing activities.

Profile:

• Degree educated 
• Relevant marketing experience within Medical Devices
• Goal orientated
• Structured and Rigorous
• A true teamworker
• Some knowledge or experience of surgical products / the Operating Room  
• Knowledge of the regulatory environment   
• Strong English language skills    

This is an opportunity for a career marketer to have a real positive impact on our company as we move to develop further our capabilities and proactiveness in the French market. If you are, sharp, fun, and with excellent marketing experience then we would like to hear from you.