Global Upstream Product Manager

3M Health Care Business Group$163K — $224K *
Pharmaceuticals & Biotech
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or higher from an accredited University
  • Five years of progressive upstream and downstream product marketing experience in MedTech or FDA-regulated healthcare markets
  • Strong financial and business acumen, including revenue modeling and pricing strategies
  • Experience with stage-gate processes, preferably Accolade
  • Excellent strategic thinking, problem-solving, analytical, and communication skills

Responsibilities

  • Own innovation and marketing strategy across multiple complex projects
  • Develop target product profiles and value propositions based on clinical evidence
  • Conduct market opportunity analyses, including competitive assessments
  • Prioritize geographic markets for product launches based on potential
  • Build robust business cases, including financial projections
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align marketing with operational plans
  • Serve as primary marketing liaison on new product core teams

Benefits

  • Medical, Dental & Vision coverage
  • Health Savings Accounts
  • Flexible Spending Accounts for healthcare and dependent care
  • Disability Benefits
  • Life Insurance
  • Voluntary Benefits
  • Paid Absences
  • Retirement Benefits
Full Job Description
Job Description:

Solventum, a healthcare company with a rich history
Our company is built on a trusted legacy of solving big healthcare challenges that improve patient lives while enabling healthcare professionals to perform at their best. People, and their well-being, are at the heart of every scientific advancement we pursue. We partner closely with the best minds in healthcare - guided by empathy, insight, and clinical intelligence - to solve our customers' toughest challenges.

Our ultimate goal? Move humanity forward by improving health for everyone. Because at Solventum, we never stop solving for you.

The impact you'll make in this role

As an Global Upstream Marketing Manager you'll work alongside sharp, inquisitive minds from a wide spectrum of backgrounds and disciplines. Together, you'll explore new ideas, challenge assumptions, and shape solutions that make a real-world impact by:

The Upstream Product Manager drives the execution of new product initiatives that advance the Advanced Wound Care Restorative Healing Technologies (RHT) Franchise's Build/Buy strategy and long-term innovation priorities. This role is accountable for marketing strategy, execution, and deliverables for new product initiatives and business development opportunities from concept through commercialization. This role requires strong financial and business acumen, a deep understanding of clinical value propositions, and the ability to integrate cross-functional inputs to shape product concepts that are commercially and clinically compelling. Responsibilities include the following:

Portfolio & Project Ownership
  • Own innovation and marketing strategy and deliverables across multiple complex projects
  • Shape the development of target product profiles (TPPs), value propositions, positioning, and business cases that are financially rigorous and evidence-based
  • Integrate clinical insights into marketing strategy, ensuring product concepts reflect patient outcomes, medical need, and clinical evidence
  • Execute market opportunity analyses, including competitive assessment, market potential, and unmet need identification
  • Prioritize geographic launch markets based on commercial potential, regulatory pathway, and operational readiness

Financial & Strategic Accountability
  • Build robust business cases, including revenue projections, NPV analyses, cost-of-goods considerations, and pricing strategies
  • Partner with Finance to model project scenarios and assess the financial impact of strategic choices
  • Identify risks and opportunities that may impact financial, clinical, or operational outcomes

Cross-Functional Leadership & Influence
  • Serve as the primary marketing liaison on the new product core team
  • Align marketing inputs with cross-functional plans, timelines, and operational constraints
  • Collaborate with PMO to ensure stage-gate readiness
  • Partner with Global Downstream and Regional Marketing to provide launch readiness input, market prioritization guidance, and go-to-market strategy alignment
  • Work with R&D, Regulatory, and Medical Affairs to ensure clinical feasibility, safety, and evidence integration
  • Coordinate with Supply Chain and R&D to assess cost-of-goods assumptions, product availability, scale-up needs, and global launch readiness


Your skills and expertise

These are the core capabilities and experiences essential to make an impact:

Required Qualifications:
  • Bachelor's degree or higher from an accredited University
  • Five (5) years of progressive experience in upstream and downstream product marketing in MedTech, healthcare, wound care, or related FDA-regulated healthcare markets


"Nice to Have" Qualifications:
  • Bachelor's degree or higher in Marketing, Business Management
  • Strong financial and business case acumen, including revenue modeling, NPV analyses, and pricing strategies
  • Experience with stage-gate processes and tools, such as Accolade
  • Track record of collaborating cross-functionally to deliver actionable recommendations
  • Excellent strategic thinking, problem-solving, analytical, and communication skills
  • Additional qualifications that could help you succeed even further in this role include:
    • Advanced degree (e.g., MBA, Economics, or related field)
    • Knowledge of the advanced wound care market, including regenerative tissue technology therapies
    • Ability to thrive in an action-oriented, high-accountability environment


Work location: Remote USA

Travel: 15-20% domestic and international (on occasion)
Relocation Assistance: Not authorized

Pay Transparency

Applicable to US Applicants Only: The expected compensation range for this position is $163,200 - $224,400, which includes base pay plus variable incentive pay, if eligible. This range represents a good faith estimate for this position. The specific compensation offered to a candidate may vary based on factors including, but not limited to, the candidate's relevant knowledge, training, skills, work location, and/or experience. In addition, this position may be eligible for a range of benefits (e.g., Medical, Dental & Vision, Health Savings Accounts, Health Care & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts, Disability Benefits, Life Insurance, Voluntary Benefits, Paid Absences and Retirement Benefits, etc.). Additional information is available at: https://www.solventum.com/en-us/home/our-company/careers/#Total-Rewardshttps://www.solventum.com/en-us/home/our-company/careers/#Total-Rewards

Legal & Compliance

Must be legally authorized to work in the country of employment without sponsorship for employment visa status.

Where this role fits

This role sits within Solventum's Medical Surgical Division, supporting the Acera product portfolio and its clinically proven solutions designed to improve patient outcomes and surgical efficiency. Through Acera Surgical and the Restrata product, the team advances evidence-based wound care technologies that support healing across multiple surgical specialties, helping frontline healthcare providers deliver safer, more effective care.

Responsibilities of this position include that corporate policies, procedures and security standards are complied with while performing assigned duties.

Solventum is committed to maintaining the highest standards of integrity and professionalism in our recruitment process. Applicants must remain alert to fraudulent job postings and recruitment schemes that falsely claim to represent Solventum and seek to exploit job seekers.

Please note that all email communications from Solventum regarding job opportunities with the company will be from an email with a domain of . Be wary of unsolicited emails or messages regarding Solventum job opportunities from emails with other email domains.

Please note, Solventum does not expect candidates in this position to perform work in the unincorporated areas of Los Angeles County.

Please note: your application may not be considered if you do not provide your education and work history, either by: 1) uploading a resume, or 2) entering the information into the application fields directly.

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