Principal Marketing Strategy and Analysis Manager, Neuromodulation

Additional Location(s): US-MN-Arden Hills; US-MA-Marlborough; US-MN-Maple Grove

Diversity - Innovation - Caring - Global Collaboration - Winning Spirit - High Performance

At Boston Scientific, we’ll give you the opportunity to harness all that’s within you by working in teams of diverse and high-performing employees, tackling some of the most important health industry challenges. With access to the latest tools, information and training, we’ll help you in advancing your skills and career. Here, you’ll be supported in progressing – whatever your ambitions.                

About the role:
The Principal Marketing Strategy and Analysis Manager is responsible for managing the high-quality execution of projects that: Inform and drive critical business decisions; Drive market assessments/analyses of key growth areas for BSC (including quantitative and qualitative primary market research); Support marketing excellence at Boston Scientific.  In this role. you will be expected to develop relationships with business partners, perform creative analytics and research to develop compelling recommendations, embed competitive intelligence into market forecasts, and provide excellent project management. This role will be responsible for development of Deep Brain Stimulation and Spinal Cord Stimulation franchise-level content for annual strategic planning, story lining for annual operating plan, and bi-annual Investor Day content development.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Responsible for working with franchise teams to develop high impact marketing and business strategies. Will rapidly become an expert on the points of view and processes for understanding the marketplace, identifying market trends and growth opportunities, diagnosing customer needs and behaviors, predicting likely competitive dynamics, and analyzing the economics of the business so that marketing can make effective choices to maximize competitive advantage.
• Conducts market and product opportunity assessment, strategy formulation and valuation for: New products developed in-house; Potential acquisitions; Growth opportunities/performance improvement strategies for existing businesses.
• Relationship development/collaboration with brand marketing resources, as well as a broad set of other stakeholders Including R&D, clinical, outcomes, business development, and sales.
• Development and implementation of structured, practical, fact-based approach to strategy development, valuation, and business plans.
• Utilizes a broad range of secondary research, primary qualitative and primary quantitative research techniques to derive market and customer insights; defines potential approach selecting from a range of techniques and then performing/overseeing the execution of the analytical plan.
• Integration of broad corporate/divisional business performance needs into franchise level decision-making.
• Collaboration with marketing and sales to ensure tactics are clearly linked to strategy and creatively developed with overall strategy in-mind.
• Plans and organizes project assignments of substantial variety and complexity; defining and managing overall schedule for project and milestones (both owned & assigned to others); often serving as project lead coordinating activities of a cross-functional team.
• Conducts and/or directs vendors in market analysis and research to answer senior management questions about the business.
• Helps to build strong Marketing Strategy and Analysis competency within the franchises.
• Ensures day-to-day Marketing Strategy and Analysis activities effectively support strategic choice development and revenue objectives.
• Implements marketing strategy processes and sharing knowledge about those processes.
• Works with franchise teams and central resources to identify and implement optimal research support processes.
• Coordinates efforts to ensure global consistency.
• Builds the Marketing Strategy and Analysis content for specific franchises.

Required qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s degree as well as a minimum of 5 years of professional experience
• 2+ years’ experience in in consulting, business strategy/analytics, product marketing, or market research experience in the healthcare or medical device industry
• Financial analytical and quantitative skills
• Must be able to create and manage revenue models in Excel
• Must be able to independently create compelling PowerPoint documents 
• Ability to travel up to 20%, including 3-5 day trips throughout each quarter with occasional conferences

Preferred qualifications: 

• Advanced degree such as MBA, MD or PhD