Product Manager

Title: Product Manager

Location: Princeton, NJ

Duration: 12 Month Assignment

100% Onsite

About: Abbott Point of Care Diagnostics is seeking a motivated Global Product Manager to support upstream and downstream marketing activities across product lines. This role involves assisting in strategic planning, market analysis, and cross-functional collaboration to ensure the successful development, launch, and promotion of medical devices.

Qualifications:

• B.A. or B.S. Degree in business, life sciences, engineering, or related technical discipline
• 2-4 years of experience in healthcare marketing and/or product management
• Possess strong project management skills, with proven ability to clearly define objectives, priorities, develop project plans, and manage to deadlines.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills (including presentation and listening skills with senior level staff).
• Demonstrated track record of success in portfolio management, product launches, and commercialization.
• Demonstrated ability to market highly technical science.
• Initiative and self-motivation; strong work ethic; leadership and team orientation; strong proactive interpersonal skills with proven ability to work with others; ability to work in a matrixed environment, strong cross-functional management by influence.

Preferred:

• Understanding of laboratory or diagnostic business.
• Technical content experience in diagnostics, IVD, or medical devices, highly preferred.
• Global experience, highly preferred.

Key Responsibilities:

Strategic Planning:

• Assist in developing and executing marketing plans and activities for specific projects and product lines to establish, enhance, or distinguish placement within a competitive market. This includes tactics, tools, campaigns, basic messaging, and positioning.
• Support the creation of business plans and product positioning strategies in the marketplace.
• Proactively conduct market research, monitor competitive activity, and identify customer needs.

Global Marketing Activities:

• Support global marketing activities associated with i-STAT.
• Assist in establishing marketing strategies for the i-STAT portfolio including advertising/promotions, pricing strategy, product development, tactical plan development, and execution.
• Help identify key segment business drivers, priorities, and growth opportunities.
• Assist in developing and executing internal and external product education, publication plans, and promotional activities to effectively communicate the strategic positioning of our products to customers.
• Monitor global emerging technologies and competitive activities.
• Assist in planning and executing product lifecycle management from product introduction to discontinuation including development of messaging and communication strategy.
• Build strong working relationships with regional commercial and cross-functional teams including Labeling & Packaging, Medical Affairs, R&D, Regulatory, Quality, Demand & Supply Planning, Finance, and Operations.
• Comply with established design control policies and procedures.
• Support the creation and approval of elements of Design Control including but not limited to: Planning, Input, Output, Reviews, Verification, Validation, Transfer, Change Control and Design History File.
• Support the maintenance of detailed program plans.
• Organize and actively participates in design reviews and program phase change reviews.

Consultants Eligible Benefits Upon Waiting Period:

• Medical and Prescription Drug Plans
• Dental Plan
• Vision Plan
• Health Savings Account (for High Deductible Health Plans)
• Flexible Spending Accounts (Health, Limited Purpose, Dependent Care, Commuter Parking and Commuter Transit)
• Supplemental Life Insurance
• Short Term Disability (coverage varies by state)
• Long Term Disability
• Critical Illness, Hospital coverage, Accident Insurance
• MetLife Legal, MetLife ID Fraud, and MetLife Pet Insurance
• 401(k)

Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritional and branded generic medicines.

Working together, Abbott and Talent Solutions partner to deliver top talent for contingent roles at Abbott, building better and healthier lives. Abbott believes all employees are essential to creating life-changing breakthroughs, performing key duties to create life-changing breakthroughs.