Product Manager, Microsurgery Instruments

Company: Katalyst Surgical, LLC
Location: Chesterfield
Posted on: May 14, 2022

Job Description:

Job Description Product Manager, Microsurgery Instruments Product Managers of the Visualization Business Sector ensure that ZEISS Microsurgery products are economically successful by identifying and fulfilling customer needs. Product Managers are responsible for the whole product lifecycle and therefore involved in all products and related topics that have impact on customer success, with a strong focus on translating customer needs into features and steering R&D. Their decisions balance customer needs, technical feasibility, and economic constraints and thus determine what gets developed and delivered to customers and what the roadmap is for launch. As a Product Manager, Microsurgery Instruments, you will:

• Analyze markets and identify business opportunities
• Define product strategy
• Create and implement new business models
• Develop product requirements and claims (features)
• Work with R&D to fill the innovation pipeline
• Manage innovation key opinion leaders (KOLs)
• Steer the product development process incl. regulation, conduct pre-launch validation
• Support market launch concept development
• Support market launches
• Support product training development
• Ensure successful ramp-ups
• Look for opportunities to improve & update products/ solutions and implement them
• Be the product expert and liaison between the customer (surgeon) and the Company As a Product Manager, Microsurgery Instruments, you will have:
  • Master of Science/Engineering/Business/Medicine preferred or Bachelor's in Marketing with Industry experience
  • First touchpoints/ experience with product management/ application support or a comparable qualification with an international focus, preferably in the healthcare industry
  • First experience in functional leadership
  • Strong business sense
  • Innovation skill- and mindset
  • Strong communicator, networker, and team player that is a highly organized multi-tasker
  • Execution focused
  • Structural and analytical thinking and working style
  • Passion for healthcare industry
  • Knowledge of digital products/services
  • Knowledge of neuro, spine, ENT markets or microsurgery a plus
  • Speaks English fluently, German skills a plus With more than 30,000 employees, ZEISS is one of the global leaders in the optical and optoelectronic industries and has been contributing to technological progress for 175 years. ZEISS develops and distributes lithography optics, measuring technology, microscopes, medical technology, surgical instruments, eyeglass lenses, camera and cine lenses, binoculars, and planetarium technology. This position will join the Zeiss Competence Center in the MCS Group of Katalyst/Kogent Surgical in Chesterfield, Missouri. Please visit www.zeiss.com or www.katalystsurgical.com for more information.

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