Upstream Marketing Director, Vascular Access Solutions - Remote

This a Full Remote job, the offer is available from: United States, Canada Thank you for your interest in joining Solventum. Solventum is a new healthcare company with a long legacy of solving big challenges that improve lives and help healthcare professionals perform at their best. At Solventum, people are at the heart of every innovation we pursue. Guided by empathy, insight, and clinical intelligence, we collaborate with the best minds in healthcare to address our customers’ toughest challenges. While we continue updating the Solventum Careers Page and applicant materials, some documents may still reflect legacy branding. Please note that all listed roles are Solventum positions, and our Privacy Policy: https://www.solventum.com/en-us/home/legal/website-privacy-statement/applicant-privacy/ applies to any personal information you submit. As it was with 3M, at Solventum all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran. Job Description: Upstream Marketing Director, Vascular Access Solutions - Remote 3M Health Care is now Solventum At Solventum, we enable better, smarter, safer healthcare to improve lives. As a new company with a long legacy of creating breakthrough solutions for our customers’ toughest challenges, we pioneer game-changing innovations at the intersection of health, material and data science that change patients' lives for the better while enabling healthcare professionals to perform at their best. Because people, and their wellbeing, are at the heart of every scientific advancement we pursue. We partner closely with the brightest minds in healthcare to ensure that every solution we create melds the latest technology with compassion and empathy. Because at Solventum, we never stop solving for you. The Impact You’ll Make in this Role As a Marketing Director, Upstream you will have the opportunity to tap into your curiosity and collaborate with some of the most innovative and diverse people around the world. Here, you will make an impact by:

• Building and leading the portfolio strategy for your area of responsibility, ensuring alignment with business objectives and customer needs.
• Identifying opportunities for organic growth (new product development) and inorganic growth (e.g. licensing, M&A) and prioritizing them in alignment with strategic goals.
• Conducting in‐depth market assessments, customer & competitive analyses to evaluate opportunities before allocating resources to NPD projects.
• Leading evaluations of M&A targets to assess strategic, customer, and business alignment.
• Managing and developing a team of upstream product managers to execute NPD projects, ensuring that new products meet unmet customer needs and align with the portfolio strategy.

How you will make an impact

• Partnering cross-functionally with R&D, Clinical, Regulatory, Finance, and downstream marketing to ensure portfolio and NPD projects are aligned to business goals and deliver value.
• Bringing the external perspective into the organization by cultivating deep customer, market, and competitive insights to guide investment decisions and portfolio priorities in connection with the business & portfolio strategy.

Your Skills and Expertise Demonstrated success in developing and executing portfolio or business strategy, balancing resource constraints and opportunity.

• Proven track record of successfully launching new products in the medical device segment, from concept through commercialization, with measurable business impact.
• Demonstrated success in developing and executing portfolio or business strategy, balancing resource constraints with growth opportunities.
• Strong analytical and strategic thinking skills, with the ability to translate market, customer, and competitive insights into actionable strategies.
• Cross-functional leadership and influence skills, with experience partnering across R&D, Clinical, Regulatory, Operations, and Commercial teams to deliver results.

To set you up for success in this role from day one, Solventum requires (at a minimum) the following qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher, in Marketing, Business, Engineering, Life Sciences, or a related field AND 10 years of relevant business experience, ideally including medical device, healthcare technologies, or adjacent regulated industries.
• 7+ years in marketing, product management, or strategy roles with increasing scope and responsibility.
• 5+ years of experience leading new product development initiatives in the medical device industry—taking projects from concept through launch.
• 3+ years managing direct reports, including mentoring/developing product or upstream marketing talent.

Additional qualifications that could help you succeed even further in this role include:

• Master’s degree in Marketing, Business Administration, Life Sciences, or

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