Upstream Group Marketing Manager

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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.

Aboutthe role: 
This role will lead a team in managing our upstream portfolio business of our single-use imaging franchise and the execution and measurement of marketing  The ideal candidate is a leader who possesses creativity, a collaborative approach and a results-first mindset, demonstrating the ability to work across a complex group of stakeholders to set objectives, identify key initiatives, align resources and execute comprehensive plans. Critical to this role is the ability to build, lead and develop a high-performing team that not only collaborates with upstream stakeholders but also with downstream team. A leader in this role will be expected to be a passionate advocate for your people, to be a visible and vocal leader within the Endoscopy franchise and to be willing to approach programs with an agile, innovative and fail fast/learn quickly approach. 

Your ResponsibilitiesInclude: 

• Set the vision, mission, goals, direction and manage day-to-day priorities, workflow, and quality for the Upstream imaging team  
• Set the strategic direction of our imaging portfolio while managing the existing project timelines with R&D.  
• Foster a high-performance team culture - Identify opportunities to actively coach and develop talent, strengthen team expertise, empower individuals, and drive accountability for agreed upon commitments. 
• Drive alignment among commercial leaders & R&D partners on commercial readiness, project priorities and align resources to execute plans to accomplish objectives 
• Create a resourcing strategy for your team and assure appropriate workload is spread across the team  
• Evaluate and determine global launch plans for specified projects within our imaging business  
• Identify opportunities to deploy resources to our OUS partners for increased adoption while  engaging with customers and providing key insights to our sales and marketing teams 
• Work seamlessly across tradeshow function to appropriately capture physician input at congress within and outside the United States.  
• Foster relationships with our global marketing partners and understand regional clinical unment needs 
• Prioritize those clinical unmet needs and maintain a funnel of project activity. 
• Act with a results-first mindset - be closely aligned with the business, act with a sense of urgency and drive measurable results in growing the Imaging Business.  

Required Qualifications: 

• Bachelor's Degree 
• 3+ years of experience leading employees. This experience includes recruiting, coaching, directing, and developing direct reports while driving best practices throughout their organization. 
• 10+ years of marketing/commercial experience including minimum 5+ years of experience in healthcare/medical device 
• The ideal candidate brings significant experience in both traditional upstream marketing communications and New business development activity 
• Possesses a clear understanding of how to translate idea generation to product commercialization  
• Good communicator with proven ability to drive change and influence organizations 
• Builds trust and is able to effectively collaborate across Product Marketing, Sales, IT, Corporate Communications, Legal, Regulatory and Finance 
• Fearlessly innovates- always looking to bring new ideas, drives innovation, encourages the team to learn fast and creates exceptional customer experiences 
• Must be able to effectively manage multiple projects, programs, people and drives clarity for the team on prioritization 
• Ability to engage and influence cross-functional colleagues, even without direct reporting relationships 
• Prior experience in product marketing, marketing development or upstream marketing  

Requisition ID: 580168

As a leader in medical science for more than 40 years, we are committed to solving the challenges that matter most - united by a deep caring for human life. Our mission to advance science for life is about transforming lives through innovative medical solutions that improve patient lives, create value for our customers, and support our employees and the communities in which we operate. Now more than ever, we have a responsibility to apply those values to everything we do - as a global business and as a global corporate citizen.

So, choosing a career with Boston Scientific (NYSE: BSX) isn't just business, it's personal. And if you're a natural problem-solver with the imagination, determination, and spirit to make a meaningful difference to people worldwide, we encourage you to apply and look forward to connecting with you!