Job Title
Product Manager MR Software
Job Description
Job title:
Product manager MR Software
Your role:
The Product Manager is globally accountable for defining and driving the end‑to‑end MR Software portfolio strategy, execution, and lifecycle management, leveraging deep customer insights and market analysis to deliver commercial success and achieve strategic objectives, operating with limited supervision.
The role owns the definition and execution of software releases, service, and lifecycle roadmaps aligned with portfolio and marketing strategies, ensuring optimal performance, quality, and timely delivery across the various regions. The Product Manager continuously optimizes software strategy to enhance profitability and market penetration through close collaboration with regional teams, ensures full compliance with PDLM guidelines, and drives strong alignment with Product Marketing and regional stakeholders to enable effective go‑to‑market execution.
Job Responsibilities:
- Owns end‑to‑end (E2E) lifecycle management of MR software portfolio, ensuring alignment with business strategy, market needs, and future portfolio evolution. Reviews and finalizes value propositions and business cases to clearly articulate customer value, support investment decisions, and enable effective governance.
- Defines and drives the MR Software portfolio roadmap, managing the full software development using PDLM frameworks. Ensures customer and user needs are met while balancing quality, cost, performance, delivery timelines, and financial viability.
- Guides and drives new software/platform development across the full lifecycle, from ideation and development to release, lifecycle optimization, and phase‑out. Works closely with Innovation, R&D, Design, Manufacturing, Suppliers, Marketing, Communications, and International Sales to ensure optimal performance, pricing, and market fit.
- Leads the development and execution of the Value Proposition & Claims (VPC) roadmap, collaborating cross‑functionally to prioritize validated clinical, economic, and technical claims in line with market trends, regulatory requirements, and competitive dynamics. Continuously optimizes strategy using customer insights, market intelligence, and competitor analysis.
- Accountable for business case development and value realization, including commercial performance, installed base growth, and technical simplicity. Drives claims ambition, roadmaps, and execution plans in close partnership with key internal stakeholders.
- Supports the development of functional specifications and prioritize features/functions that meet the needs of target customer segments, ensuring products are designed according to agreed user needs with optimal protocol settings.
- Ensures a consistent and common user experience across all software product elements, and frequently interact with customers and functional peer group managers to address matters between functional areas and external stakeholders.
- Supports global and regional product launch execution, partnering with Product Marketing, Downstream Marketing, and Regional Marketing teams to enable effective go‑to‑market strategies and coordinated market entry.
- Acts as a subject‑matter expert for regional marketing and sales teams, providing deep product, market, and competitive insights, along with strategic guidance, training, and tools to support commercial success.
- Continuously monitors market trends, competitive landscape, and segment technologies, ensuring the portfolio meets evolving customer needs. Develops and maintains robust customer segmentation requirements, supported by Market Intelligence and global market insights.
- Works under limited supervision and broad guidelines
Detail elements of the team and stakeholders for this role:
You work directly with a team of Product managers in the clinical domain and closely with product manager the Premium and Performance (system) domain. Key stakeholders are product marketing, downstream marketing, R&M and project management.
You're the right fit if: (4 x bullets max)
Experience:
- Minimum 4-5 years of work experience in areas such as Product Management, Software development, Software project management, Clinical marketing or equivalent.
- Preferred experience in Radiology, Healthcare, Medical Device Industry
Skills.
- Stakeholder Management
- Business/ Financial Acumen & Analytical Skill
- New Product Introduction (NPI)
- Product Lifecycle Management
- Problem Solving
- Strong presentation and communication skills
- Preferred: technical/software acumen
Education:
- Bachelor's/ Master's Degree in Business Administration, Healthcare Administration, Medical Technology or equivalent.
How we work together:
We believe that we are better together than apart. This is an office based role. For our office-based teams, this means working in-person at least 3 days per week.
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