Senior Manager, Marketing, APAC SURG

Innovation starts from the heart. Heart valve disease and critical care therapies impact millions of lives, spanning all ages and geographies. As communities globally address the opportunities and challenges of cardiovascular care, telling a compelling and authentic story is more crucial than ever. Beyond raising awareness, our Marketing teams build lasting, trusted relationships with medical professionals and industry stakeholders to ensure patients can receive the treatments they need.

Dedicated to innovation, our Surgical business unit is focused on identifying and solving critical, unmet needs in cardiac surgery. In understanding the challenges of open-heart surgery, we partner with surgical teams to deliver modern technologies intended to enhance patients’ quality of life and expand their potential treatment opportunities. It’s our driving force to help patients live longer and healthier lives. Join us and be part of our inspiring journey.

How you will make an impact:

•Build out all Marketing messaging in conjunction with Aortic/Mitral/Market Development peers

•Build a Digital Platform for Surgical APAC

•Assist Mkt/Dir/Bus Dir on all APAC communications/branding

•Development of an Emerging Market (i.e.: SEA and India markets) AS and MVR Prevalence model, incorporating patient affordability

•VOC activities

•Ensure market segmentation activities are executed prior to product launching

•Understanding of the Rheumatic disease burden and development of Rheumatic disease burden model – focused on Mitral disease

•Assist in the APAC Surgical Strat Plan/AOP assisting Mkt Dir/Bus Dir

•Assist in develop “Value Dossier” to assist in the Self Paid markets in APAC

What you'll need (Required):
• Bachelor's Degree or Master's Degree or equivalent with minimum of 12 years of professional experience with excellent business and strategy development and hands-on Sales, Marketing, and Commercial areas in Medical device, Pharmaceutical and Lifesciences/Healthcare industry.

What else we look for (Preferred):
• Excellent knowledge and experience in market research projects, consolidating internal thoughts to compose RFP, assess external market research companies, incorporate findings from market research to 'make the market' with long term plan.
• Expert understanding and interpretation of complicated market dynamics, identify and quantify market potential, build business case with both business and financial analysis skills.
• Able to work in a matrix environment.
• Strong business acumen and analytic mindset.
• Good team player, self-motivated, result oriented, problem solver with strong ownership and leadership skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and interpersonal relationship skills including influencing and relationship management skills with ability to drive achievement of objectives.
• Strong influencing skills and ability to deal with government officials with skill and diplomacy.
• Recognized as an expert in own area with specialized depth within the organization.
• Strict attention to detail.
• Ability to establish foundation of credibility based on integrity and a track record of achievement.
• Proven stakeholder management experience in multi-national company.
• Ability to interact professionally with all organizational levels and proactively escalate issues to appropriate levels of management in the organization.
• Ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Represents leadership on projects within a specific area interfacing with project managers, team and middle management.
• Consult in project setting within specific areas, interfacing with low to middle
management.

• Provides leadership to outsourcing partners on a task level, and may participate on small scale RFP.

• Strong communication, negotiation, coaching and facilitation skills.

• Good command of spoken and written English.

• Proven expertise on MS Office Suite and other relevant tools and applications preferred.

• Adhere to all company rules and requirements (e.g., pandemic protocols, Environmental Health & Safety rules) and take adequate control measures in preventing injuries to themselves and others as well as to the protection of environment and prevention of pollution under their span of influence/control.