Strategic Market Manager, Thermoplastics Medical Devices

Job Function: Thermoplastic Medical Devices

Location: Brecksville, OH; Corona, CA; Franklin; WI; San Francisco Bay Area; Boston, MA; Minneapolis, MN or other relevant US location

Job Type: Full-time, Exempt

Type of Role: Hybrid (Brecksville or other Lubrizol site) or remote if not near Lubrizol site

​​Salary Range: commensurate with experience, target range is $140,000-160,000 

 

About Lubrizol  
The Lubrizol Corporation, a Berkshire Hathaway company, is a specialty chemical company whose science delivers sustainable solutions to advance mobility, improve wellbeing and enhance modern life. Founded in 1928, Lubrizol owns and operates more than 100 manufacturing facilities, sales, and technical offices around the world and has about 8,000 employees. For more information, visit www.Lubrizol.com.

We value diversity in professional backgrounds and life experiences. By enabling a consistent, unbiased, and transparent recruitment process, Lubrizol seeks to create a positive experience for candidates so we can get to know them at their best. We recognize unique work and life situations and offer flexibility, ensuring our employees feel engaged and fulfilled in every aspect of life.   

 

Join our Thriving Team as the Strategic Market Manager for Thermoplastic Medical Devices

Unleash Your Potential. At Lubrizol we're transforming the medical device industry and looking for exceptional talent to join us on this journey. If you are ready to join an international company with talent around the world and want to make a real impact, we want you on our team.

 

What You’ll Do:

As a Strategic Market Manager for thermoplastic medical devices, you'll be at the forefront of our innovation, driving the development and bringing to market precision extrusions, molded components and assemblies for minimally invasive device applications. You'll collaborate with a diverse group of passionate individuals to deliver sustainable solutions to advance mobility, improve wellbeing and enhance modern life. Your work will directly impact creation and implementation of the global product strategy, including pricing, promotion, forecasting new items, directing the new business development teams towards opportunities, and supporting the sales organization in securing new opportunities. You will define the product line pricing and positioning strategy, collaborate with Marketing and Communications on promotion of the product lines, work closely with sales organization and lead the Subject Matter Experts (SME) to secure new business and develop the product line forecasts. You will be responsible for the strategic marketing functions for specific material components or device development, and support the sales teams by:

• Determining target markets, customer segmentation and target customers
• Creating and implementing product line strategy to grow business, gaining market share and developing new opportunities
• Managing all pricing actions, including pricing analytics and margin improvement
• Managing product and customer portfolio via 80/20 and margin velocity reviews including action item planning, complexity reduction and accountability
• Preparing business cases to support product line strategy and investments
• Owning the product development strategy, and a key stakeholder in the intake process and development reviews
• Collaborating with technical and operations teams to create promotional content and work with the Marketing and Communications team to deliver product information
• Developing competitive intelligence and counter strategies to maintain value and price leadership in the marketplace
• Aligning business needs with operations and supply chain to prioritize and maximize service capabilities to customers while identifying ways to minimize overall cost position and risk for obsolescence

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