Product Management, Orthopedic Power Instruments

About the Role

Arthrex is seeking an Associate Product Manager or Product Manager to support the growth and development of its Power Instruments portfolio. This role involves creating and managing power solutions by partnering with cross-functional teams and surgeons to provide products that enable surgeons to treat their patients better. The successful candidate will build relationships with key customers and internal departments to drive new product innovation and manage existing product lines. This position is based in Naples, FL and requires travel.

Main Objective

To plan, organize, and control the powered instrument capital equipment product line from conceptual stages through product life cycles to optimize profit and meet marketing, financial, and corporate growth objectives.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead cross-functional product development efforts in partnership with Marketing, Engineering, Sales, Manufacturing, and Operations from concept through commercialization.
• Define and execute product strategy, including market research, competitive analysis, pricing, positioning, and lifecycle management.
• Develop and maintain a prioritized set of customer and market requirements.
• Manage the full product development lifecycle, including planning, scheduling, risk mitigation, issue resolution, and coordination through design, prototype, and production release.
• Drive project execution by establishing objectives, allocating resources, monitoring budgets, and ensuring projects are delivered on time and within financial targets.
• Provide technical and financial analysis, including product justification, profit estimates, forecasting, and reporting to senior leadership.
• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders (including customers and key surgeons) to gather insights, maintain relationships, and ensure alignment on scope, quality, and deliverables.
• Coordinate product launches and commercialization efforts, including sales enablement, marketing communications, training, and distribution strategy.
• Collaborate with the Marketing team to plan and develop assets to educate and inform end users about the products.
• Conduct surgeon and sales rep product and procedure training.
• Deliver technical expertise, training, and support to internal teams, sales representatives, and customers, including resolving complex product issues.
• Coordinate product introduction and market exploitation with marketing and sales organizations.
• Monitor product performance post-launch, ensuring ongoing optimization to meet financial goals and customer requirements.
• Identify growth opportunities, including partnerships and complementary products, to expand the portfolio.
• Ensure compliance with customer requirements, quality standards, and documentation, including review of testing, reporting, and validation.
• Prepare and present project updates, performance metrics, and strategic recommendations to leadership and stakeholders.
• Travel up to 25% as required.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Orthopedic medical device product management and/or sales and/or engineering and/or marketing experience.
• Experience related to powered instruments for orthopedic applications preferred.
• Ability to work with cadaveric specimens.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required, preferably in business or engineering.
• Master’s degree is preferred.
• Associate Product Manager level requires at least 1 year of orthopedic medical device product management and/or sales and/or engineering and/or marketing experience OR a Master’s degree.
• Product Manager level requires at least 5 years of orthopedic medical device product management (up and/or downstream marketing) and/or sales and/or engineering experience.

Knowledge and Skills

• Knowledge of the orthopedic market.
• Skilled in working with different functions and effectively coordinating their activities.
• Excellent listening skills, including the ability to identify and isolate customer concerns or objections.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Excellent public speaking and presentation skills.