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Fortive

Sr. Product Planning Manager

Remote — United States (see country and timezone requirements)

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Job description

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 insight—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 product strategies, prioritized ideas to explore, and scalable growth opportunities. 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

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

Bachelor’s 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

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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