Sr. Director Marketing, Surgical

Position Summary:  Manage team and related marketing activities within assigned area. Innovation starts from the heart. Heart valve disease 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.

How you will make an impact:

• Direct activities with overall departmental responsibility of developing systems, planning, staffing, budgeting, managing expense priorities, recommending and implementing changes to methods through several direct reports that may include people managers

• Mitigate/eliminate risk, direct and communicate highly complex strategies which includes negotiations with internal and external parties for multiple complex concurrent major products, campaigns, launches, programs, and initiatives and achieving these in a matrix, team environment.

• Plan and direct strategic marketing activities including prioritizing and selecting appropriate projects with overall responsibility for meeting business objectives. Lead in identifying risk, developing complex mitigation strategies, best practices, alternative solutions, resolving issues, etc. in collaboration with cross functional and/or matrix teams for multiple complex concurrent major products, campaigns, launches, programs, and initiatives

• Direct line management responsibilities including a robust strategic talent development plan in alignment with functional growth strategies and responsibility for the desired culture of the department.

• Develop key relationships with critical executive leaders including; Sales VPs, Regional RDs, Cross Functional VPs and partners

• Develop and deliver executive level communication

• Other incidental duties

What you will need (required):

• Bachelor's Degree in related field and related experience in marketing

• Demonstrated track record in people management

What else we look for (preferred):

Technical:

• Experience from the medical device industry, preferably in cardiovascular/cardiac surgery

• Proven successful project management leadership skills

• Proven expertise in Microsoft Office Suite and related tools and systems

• Excellent problem-solving, organizational, analytical and critical thinking skills including high discretion/judgment in decision making

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and interpersonal relationship skills including negotiating and relationship management skills with ability to drive achievement of objectives

• Expert understanding of related aspects of marketing concepts and principles while looking beyond existing methodologies and own discipline to define and resolve complex problems

• Expert understanding of related aspects of market share, pricing, ASPs, competitive dynamics

• Expert knowledge of financial mechanism that relates to marketing including forecasting, expense budgeting and management, purchase order compliance and processing, and 3rd party vendor compliance management.

• Ability to develop and integrate metrics into the projects and operations that clearly demonstrate the value of marketing to the business

• Expert understanding of marketing content approval processes and systems, regulatory guidelines and legal boundaries

• 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

Leadership:

• Demonstrated performance track record over multiple business cycles within relevant industry/function, including talent management responsibilities

• Demonstrated ability to direct teams and provide coaching and feedback, including responsibility for all employee actions including hire/fire authority, attracting, developing, and retaining talent and partnering with HR on all aspects of talent development

• Serve as core partner to senior leaders in the Surgical Business Unit.

• Ability to interact professionally with all organizational levels and proactively escalate issues to appropriate levels of management in the organization

• Ability to work and excel within a fast paced, dyna