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Product Planning Manager

Remote — United States (see country and timezone requirements)

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Job description

We are seeking a 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 insight—not just execution—owning the front-end of the innovation process and qualifying investment priorities. You’ll identify where the market is going, uncover unmet customer needs, and translate those insights into clear hardware and software product strategies, prioritized ideas to explore, and scalable growth potential. This role is not just about managing products—it’s 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 related to core markets

Innovation leader who thrives in ambiguity and proactively develops product concepts in response to customer problems

Structured thinker who translates market insights into clear product strategies, business cases, and roadmaps

Influencer and communicator who knows how to get executive sponsorship and align cross-functional stakeholders around a common vision

Customer-centric problem solver who balances user needs, technical feasibility, and business outcomes

Key Responsibilities

Market Insight & Opportunity Identification

Execute deep market and competitive analysis to identify whitespace opportunities and growth vectors within core markets

Synthesize discovery Voice of Customer (VoC), industry trends, and market insights into strategic opportunities to explore.

Qualify and prioritize ideas by sizing market opportunities, defining customer problems, and estimating levels of desirability, viability, and feasibility

Innovation & Product Strategy

Key contributor to the front-end innovation process, from concept ideation through business case validation

Develop clear product visions, contribute to multi-year roadmaps and portfolio strategies with the product team.

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

Define successful products, setting the features and requirements priorities that will achieve the expected customer and business outcomes

Product Execution & Portfolio Management

Communicate product vision and high-level product definitions to executable product requirements for skilled development teams and portfolio product managers to develop and take to market

Partner with portfolio product managers and commercial teams to manage the product lifecycle, applying business insights to priorities for innovation.

Support idea prioritization frameworks, balancing growth roadmap ideas with core business needs

Qualifications

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in business, Marketing, Engineering, or related field

2+ years of product management or market-focused experience in a B2B technical environment

Demonstrated success in driving product innovation and growth

Experience with qualitative and quantitative market research methodologies

Proven ability to contribute to business cases and influence investment decisions

Excellent communication and presentation skills

Preferred

MBA or equivalent strategic experience

Experience defining product features and requirements in a structured framework

Experience in biomedical testing, healthcare technology, or radiation safety markets

Key Skills & Attributes

Strategic thinking with strong front-end product planning capability

Customer centric mindset, focus on delivering real value and solving customer problems

Analytical rigor with creative problem-solving

Ability to operate in ambiguity and recommend direction early

Strong collaborator and influence across cross-functional teams

Genuinely curious and adaptable

Awareness and 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

Clear, insight-driven new market opportunities, and roadmap priorities in core 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

Originally posted on Himalayas

Who can apply

Eligible countries: United States. Accepted UTC offsets: UTC-10, UTC-9, UTC-8, UTC-7, UTC-6, UTC-5, UTC+14. Review the full description for employer-specific work authorization, residency and schedule requirements.

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