The Cardiac Management Solutions division of ZOLL Medical Corporation develops products to protect and manage cardiac patients, including the LifeVest® wearable cardioverter defibrillator (WCD), the ZOLL cardiac monitor, and associated technologies.

Heart disease is the leading cause of death for both men and women in the U.S. At ZOLL, your work will help to ensure cardiac patients get the life-saving therapy they need. To date, the LifeVest WCD has been worn by hundreds of thousands of patients and saved thousands of lives.

ZOLL has been Pittsburgh’s Manufacturer of the Year, one of Western PA’s Healthiest Employers, and even one of Pittsburgh’s Coolest Offices. But it’s our unique opportunity to impact people’s lives that makes ZOLL the ideal place to build your career.

Job purpose

The Associate New Product Planning Manager for Cardiac Diagnostics will work closely with the Director to drive the global new product strategy and planning initiatives for the cardiac monitoring, heart failure management, home sleep testing, and future planned category offerings, including the creation of breakthrough strategies to solve complex patient and clinician problems in the diagnoses and treatment of heart disease. The position will also be focused on identifying, specifying, and implementing integrated solutions to support the strategy. This is a highly strategic role that is essential to the short and long-term success of ZOLL Cardiac Management Solutions.

Duties and responsibilities

Primary job duties and responsibilities of the position.

• Support and execute global strategies and tactics to drive continued adoption of Cardiac Diagnostic offerings to meet or exceed the revenue plan and profit objectives, through close partnership with the R&D team, regulatory team, product marketing team, medical and clinical affairs team, monitoring center (IDTF) team, and reimbursement team.
• Partner with New Product Planning Director to define, launch, and build profitable new innovative solutions that transform the ZOLL Cardiac Solutions product portfolio.
• Lead and perform comprehensive market research patients and clinicians who are part of cardiac care workflows.
• Generate compelling market insights based on research, data, and other acquired inputs.
• Co-Develop short and long-term strategies based on derived insights, business objectives, and other identified patient, clinical, and technology trends.
• Work closely with new product development, regulatory, clinical, marketing, and external partners to develop and commercialize solutions.
• Create key marketing requirement documents to enable successful development
• Develop business requirements for new product and enhancements to existing products; work with R&D on functional specifications and feature/function prioritization
• Develop business cases for new products and solutions for consideration in the portfolio planning process
• Obtain global customer requirements via market research activities, market analysis, and on-going communication with global marketing and sales
• Perform competitive analysis and maintain insights into current and future competition.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in business or engineering related discipline; MBA preferred
• Minimum of 3 to 5 years of experience in new product planning, product management, or strategy is required.
• Medical new product planning experience preferred
• Excellent analytical, strategic thinking, and problem-solving skills, and strong business acumen required
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, and well-honed interpersonal and leadership skills are required.
• Independent thinking and a high level of initiative and the ability to interact well with patients, physicians, customers, and key opinion leaders are essential.
• Demonstrated knowledge of new product planning and strategic planning processes required.
• Must be an effective leader in a matrixed environment.
• Ability to interpret and convey clinical data required.
• Approximately 30% travel required.

Working conditions

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

It is anticipated that this will be a hybrid work environment with an in-office requirement in Pittsburgh and remote/work from home components. The distribution of this work location will be dependent on the needs at the time and will need to remain flexible. Employee is expected to work collaboratively with team members, as well as able to work independently with limited supervision. Work will require significant computer and telephone work. Overnight travel is expected approximately 30% of the time and may involve international as well as domestic travel. Travel may be by airplane, automobile and/or train.

Physical requirements

While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to sit, talk and hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand and walk. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.

Supervisory responsibility

None

AAP/EEO Statement

ZOLL is committed to fostering an inclusive workplace, where unique identities, backgrounds, cultures, perspectives and experiences are respected and valued.

Equal Opportunity Employer – Disability and Veteran

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