US Marketing Manager

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Respironics, a worldwide leader at anticipating needs and providing valued solutions to the sleep and respiratory markets. The company's focus is on home care, hospital, respiratory drug delivery and international markets providing programs that manage sleep disordered breathing, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, asthma, infant care, congestive heart failure and restrictive lung disorders. Globally positioned has manufacturing facilities in several domestic and international markets.

We have an immediate opportunity in our Murrysville, PA territory for:

US Marketing Manager/Assistant - Sleep Disordered Breathing

Responsibilities:
Incumbent in this position will be responsible for developing and implementing strategic marketing programs to achieve financial targets.
Work extensively in the field with customers and field sales people.
Lead advertising and PR agency activities.
Coordinate with upstream Product Managers to prepare for new product launches.
Conduct Sales training with effective / creative implementation.
Communicate with upstream Product Managers to identify market opportunities.
Establish procedures to ensure appropriate prioritization and efficient workflow of downstream marketing initiatives.
Provide forecasting for budgeting, manufacturing, and sales purposes.
Effectively represent the entire Sleep product portfolio with the sales organization and assist in creating customer deals.
Stay current on new clinical trends related to Sleep Disordered Breathing.
Develop value added programs / tools for customers, sales associates and physicians.
Investigate new respiratory modalities and prepares market analysis to support new products.
Participate and lead focus groups.
Collaborate with upstream marketing to conduct market validation and provide input to new product design.
Demonstrate excellent presentation skills and develop strong relationships with the sales organization.
Maintain constant contact with sales management and sales associates to understand needs in the selling process.

Requirements:
BS in Business/Marketing required. Masters degree in related field, preferred.
Minimum of 5 years of product management experience required, preferably with medical devices, but other device experience will be considered.
Successful sales experience required.
Demonstrated success in downstream marketing activities with very strong market insight and foresight abilities.
Demonstrated ability and desire to travel extensively as means of developing and maintaining market insight.
Skilled in MS Office applications (Word, PowerPoint, Excel) required.
Approximately 35% travel required.

At Respironics Inc., our products improve the lives of patients with a variety of respiratory needs in the hospital, homecare, critical care and neonatal environments. To learn more about our organization, our products and our culture ? please apply online and reference job number: 271BR or 272BR.

Your interest in our company is appreciated however, only candidates considered for interview selection will be notified. AA/EOE.

www.respironics.com
Apply Online: https://sjobs.brassring.com/1033/ASP/TG/cim_jobdetail.asp?partnerid=25012&siteid=5146&AReq=271BR&Codes=MON