Senior Product Manager - Medical

​​Who We Are

At CPC (Colder Products Company), we’re not just connecting fluid lines – we’re connecting people, ideas, and possibilities. For nearly 50 years, we’ve been engineering cutting-edge fluid connection technologies that power industries from biopharmaceutical, thermal management (liquid cooling of electronics), medical, industrial, and chemical handling markets. 

 

But what sets us apart? Our people. 

 

We’re a team of problem-solvers, innovators, and forward-thinkers who thrive in a culture that values collaboration, creativity, and continuous improvement. Headquartered in Minneapolis/St. Paul, with over 700 employees in 14 countries, we’re growing fast, and we want you to grow with us!

 

Your Role

Are you ready to make an impact and work with a company that values your expertise, ideas, and career growth? As our next Senior Product Manager - Medical, you’ll be at the forefront of shaping our organization’s success. This isn’t just a job – it’s a career move where you’ll thrive, learn, and enjoy coming to work.

 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities: 

•    Develop and manage the market and product roadmaps for identified Medical market opportunities.
•    Be the recognized subject matter expert for assigned Medical markets, effectively influencing all levels of company leadership both internally and externally.
•    Responsible for growth, profitability, and lifecycle management of assigned product lines.
•    Determine customers' and market needs utilizing market research and voice of customer.
•    Bring new products to market by defining and analyzing product requirements and product development programs; developing business plans including return-on-investment analysis, critical timeline expectations, and demand forecast.
•    Define product marketing communication objectives and collaborate with marketing, sales, and compliance in creation of marketing collateral and sales enablement tools for new and existing products. 
•    Develop product sales strategies for new and existing product.
•    Provide information for management by preparing short-term and long-term product sales forecasts.
•    Set product lead times to facilitate growth and optimize the business, while collaborating with operations and supply chain on inventory strategy to maintain appropriate service levels. 
•    Cross functional collaboration on product quality, cost, and availability to support objectives.
•    Obtain and assess product market share in collaboration with commercial partners, developing competitive strategy through detailed knowledge of competitors' products.
•    Develop, train others, and deliver customer and market messaging as needed.
•    Determine product pricing for new and existing products via value-based pricing strategies with consideration for market and competitive intelligence.
•    Maintain professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; participating in professional societies.
•    Promote and train the CPC organization globally on market, value proposition, and key messages.
•    Develop relationships with key decision makers and strategic accounts.
•    Mentor and coach team members.

Essential Supervisory Responsibilities:
•    Dependent on future business growth, may manage a team of other product managers, product owners, and/or project managers as assigned.

 

Qualification Requirements: 

•    Bachelor’s degree
•    Minimum 7+ years of product marketing experience
•    Minimum 5+ years of experience defining and launching new products to market

Preferred Qualifications:
•    Engineering or similar technical degree
•    MBA from an accredited institution
•    5+ years of experience marketing component products to medical OEMs
•    5+ years of engineering or product management experience for a medical OEM  
•    Proven experience developing and implementing effective product development plans and strategies in a B2B setting
•    Comfortable with ambiguity
•    Creative problem solver with global perspective
•    Strong written and oral communication skills