Global Product Manager - Pediatric Spine Portfolio

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 11 Nov 2026

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This highly visible role offers meaningful engagement with key opinion leaders, senior leadership, and strategic growth initiatives within Medtronic’s Cranial and Spine Technologies business. It offers broad experience across both upstream and downstream marketing activities for Medtronic’s pediatric spine portfolio. Working closely with leading pediatric spine surgeons, cross-functional business leaders, product development teams, and the commercial organization, you will help identify unmet clinical needs, translate customer insights into product requirements, support new product development, and bring innovative technologies to market.

With responsibility across the full product lifecycle, you will support portfolio strategy, product development, commercialization, forecasting, inventory management, customer engagement, and ongoing portfolio optimization. You will collaborate with global teams across R&D, Clinical, Regulatory, Quality, Operations, Supply Chain, and Sales to address the complex and often underserved needs of pediatric spine patients.

Primary responsibilities:

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned.

• Develop a deep understanding of the pediatric spine market, competitive landscape, emerging trends, and customer needs to inform portfolio strategy and business decisions.
• Build strong relationships with pediatric spine surgeons, key opinion leaders, physician customers, and industry partners to support innovation, education, and therapy adoption.
• Collaborate closely with Sales leadership and field teams to develop customer-facing tools, training programs, and commercialization initiatives that drive product adoption and portfolio growth.
• Serve as a subject matter expert for the pediatric portfolio, performing product demonstrations and supporting education and training for surgeons, sales representatives, and customers.
• Contribute across upstream and downstream marketing activities by translating customer insights and unmet clinical needs into product requirements, business cases, market strategies, and commercialization plans.
• Partner with R&D, Clinical, Regulatory, Quality, Operations, and Supply Chain teams to support product development and lifecycle activities from concept through commercialization.
• Plan and execute Voice of Customer activities, including surgeon advisory boards, validation studies, technology evaluations, customer education programs, and conference engagements.
• Develop and execute product launch and market development strategies to drive adoption and expand therapy utilization.
• Continuously analyze market trends and competitive information to recommend product enhancements, portfolio improvements, and future development opportunities.
• Manage product sales forecasting, inventory planning, and supply coordination to align customer demand with business objectives.
• Provide ongoing customer and field support, gathering feedback and coordinating with internal partners to address product and service needs.
• Track key performance indicators and provide insights and recommendations to support portfolio performance, strategic decision-making, and annual operating plan development.
• Support budget planning and financial forecasting for assigned products and programs.
• Travel up to 30%

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree
• Minimum of 4 years of relevant experience, or advanced degree with a minimum of 2 years relevant experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in pediatric deformity or pediatric spine
• Experience in medical devices, healthcare, spine, orthopedics, or surgical technologies
• Experience supporting upstream and downstream marketing activities across the product lifecycle
• Experience supporting new product development, product launches, and commercialization initiatives

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