SUMMARY OF DUTIES

The Global Product Leader is a key player in Merit's strategic marketing organization, leading marketing activities for a portfolio of products, working closely with customers, peers, and leaders and team members in R&D, Regulatory, Clinical, Manufacturing, Commercial Marketing and Sales.

The Global Product Leader uses market insight, analytical skills, marketing competencies, and strong leadership abilities to identify new product needs, assess opportunities, and ultimately take new products from idea to successful commercialization.

This is a fast paced, high visibility role, with opportunity to engage with Merit executives and cross-functional leadership.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS PERFORMED

• Demonstrate leadership, expertise, innovation, vision, and the company values in your actions.

• Assess portfolio opportunities and gaps to bring needed innovation to your portfolio, including:
  • Monitor market and competitive moves through third-party and primary market intelligence.
  • Partner with global commercial teams for local market insight and alignment.
  • Gather clinician insight through a comprehensive voice of customer plan.
  • Work with Business Development to identify external technologies.
  • Develop and bring forward well-thought proposals to bring new products into the portfolio.

• Lead marketing activity from idea to commercialization, including:
  • Partner globally to align on user requirements, claims, and product descriptions.
  • Build market models.
  • Share leadership of a Product Development Team.
  • Define and lead global go-to-market strategy and execution with clear milestones and deliverables, including customer segmentation and targeting; value proposition, positioning and messaging; reimbursement and pricing strategy; forecast and inventory plans; communication plan; and product lifecycle plan.
  • Monitor commercial success via dashboards and adapt plans as needed.

• Own strategy, P&L responsibility, branding and positioning for your portfolio:
  • Proactively monitoring sales and margin and provide leadership updates.
  • Partner with Brand and Commercial Marketing Teams to communicate portfolio advantages.
  • Prepare for and respond to market opportunities and challenges.
  • Approve regional adaptions of global commercial and messaging strategies.

• Identify and establish productive relationships with clinical thought-leaders as part of comprehensive voice of customer and product champion plans for your portfolio.

• Manage market data, working with third-party sources, conducting primary market research, and collaborating with regional marketing and commercial teams.

• Serve as the portfolio product expert, delivering sales and distributor training content and programs, including features, benefits and value summary, competitive comparisons, and objections handling.

• Travel up to 30% of the time, and as needed.

• Perform other activities, as needed.

ESSENTIAL PHYSICAL/ENVIRONMENTAL DEMANDS

• Lifting - Not to exceed 50 lbs. - local practice may apply.
• Writing
• Sitting
• Standing
• Bending
• Visual acuity
• Color perception
• Depth perception
• Reading
• Field of vision/peripheral

SUMMARY OF MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• Education and/or experience equivalent to a bachelor's degree in marketing, business, engineering, or allied health (nursing, physician assistant, technologist).
• Seven years of marketing experience, including upstream marketing and global product launch roles.
• Strong interpersonal skills with demonstrated ability to work successfully and influence at a variety of levels within the organization.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including experience building market models.
• Excellent presentation skills with ability to prepare professional written and PowerPoint presentations.
• Thrives working in a dynamic, fast paced market with high visibility to executive leadership.
• Ability to manage large, high priority projects efficiently and effectively meeting deadlines and budget.
• Demonstrated skills working with Excel and Word.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• MBA or graduate level education (MS, PGD, MA).
• Experience working in medical device, healthcare, or pharma industry.

COMPETENCIES

• Data analysis
• Product development process, including defining user needs
• Problem solving
• Ability to engage and lead teams
• Team player

COMMENTS

Merit Medical Systems, Inc., an Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/D/V, is a dynamic, progressive and innovative company with a strong global presence. Our culture is highly energetic, family friendly, values its employees, and promotes them as standard business practice. To see what it is like to work at Merit take a look at our new recruiting video on YouTube at www.youtube.com/meritmedical to see the video titled "Great people, Great products, Great Company". Merit currently has the above opening located in South Jordan, Utah. Excellent compensation and benefits packages will be offered to the right candidate.

COMPANY HISTORY Merit Medical Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ, MMSI) was founded in 1987 by Fred P. Lampropoulos. Merit develops, manufactures and markets single-use medical devices primarily for diagnosing and treating cardiovascular and vascular disease. Merit has been successful in introducing and marketing innovative, high-quality products through its expertise in new product design and its capabilities in injection and insert molding of plastics; the application of its proprietary electronic and sensor-based technologies; and wire, extrusion and catheter technologies. Merit also develops and markets embolotherapeutic products for the treatment of uterine fibroids, hypervascularized tumors, and arteriovenous malformations. Embolotherapy procedures are primarily performed by interventional radiologists and use bioengineered microspheres to create targeted vascular occlusion and drug delivery. The Company is utilizing its competitive advantages and technologies to develop and offer products that address a wide range of needs related to cardiology and radiology procedures performed in hospitals. Sales are made primarily to U.S. hospitals through a direct sales force. The Company markets its products in over 60 countries worldwide, utilizing a direct sales force in Europe, and distributors for the remainder of the world.

MERIT MEDICAL SYSTEMS, INC.

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