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Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 122,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.JOB DESCRIPTION:\nResponsible for defining and driving the global product portfolio strategy, digital solutions roadmap, and innovation agenda across the Heart Failure division, influencing enterprise investment decisions, growth strategies, and long-term business performance globally. Acts as a key strategic leader, shaping the future direction of the portfolio by integrating customer needs, market opportunities, clinical insights, regulatory and quality requirements, business objectives, and emerging technologies. Leads global product and design organizations responsible for translating unmet needs into differentiated products and solutions that accelerate growth, improve patient outcomes, and strengthen competitive advantage across all Heart Failure markets worldwide.\nKEY RESPONSIBILITIES\nDefine and drive the global Heart Failure product portfolio strategy, long-range planning, and roadmap development for pipeline products, digital solutions, services, and innovation initiatives, ensuring alignment with divisional objectives, enterprise priorities, and future growth opportunities.\nEstablish the product vision, strategic direction, and value proposition framework by translating customer, clinical, market, and business insights into enterprise-wide product strategies and investment priorities.\nSet the product design, human factors, usability, and product experience strategy for the Heart Failure portfolio, ensuring customer and user insights are translated into product requirements, design 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business priorities.\nOwn product management strategy across the entire product lifecycle, from concept development through commercialization, launch readiness, market expansion, and ongoing portfolio optimization.\nDrive cross-functional alignment with Clinical Affairs, Medical Affairs, Regulatory Affairs, and Quality leadership to shape evidence-generation, regulatory, and quality strategies that enable portfolio success and accelerated market adoption.\nDefine the strategic evidence-generation framework and influence clinical study priorities to support regulatory approvals, reimbursement objectives, physician adoption, and long-term market leadership.\nLead enterprise-wide alignment across Marketing, Commercial, Market Access, and Market Insights organizations to define commercialization strategies, drive customer adoption, and maximize global portfolio performance.\nServe as the executive leader accountable for portfolio performance, communicating strategic opportunities, investment recommendations, business risks, and growth plans to senior leadership to enable informed decision-making.\nShape and influence executive-level decisions related to portfolio priorities, innovation investments, growth strategies, market expansion opportunities, and long-range business planning across the Heart Failure organization.\nEstablish governance processes, operating mechanisms, and performance metrics that enable effective portfolio management, strategic prioritization, and execution excellence across all Heart Failure product lines globally.\nLead and develop a global Product Management and Design organization, building organizational capabilities, succession pipelines, and leadership talent while fostering a culture of customer-centricity, innovation, accountability, collaboration, and execution excellence.\nCRITICAL EXPERIENCES FOR THIS ROLE\nDemonstrated success developing and executing global product portfolio strategies within a complex healthcare or medical device environment.\nExperience shaping product strategy across the full lifecycle, including upstream innovation, product development, commercialization, sustaining, and portfolio optimization in a regulated environment.\nExperience integrating customer and user insights into portfolio priorities, product design decisions, and market adoption strategies.\nProven experience influencing executive leadership and enterprise investment decisions.\nExperience leading organizations through significant growth, transformation, or innovation initiatives with measurable business impact.\nDemonstrated success leading global, cross-functional organizations in a highly matrixed environment.\nStrong financial, strategic planning, portfolio analytics, and portfolio investment management capabilities.\nKEY COMPETENCIES\nProduct strategy & roadmap development\nPortfolio management\nInnovation leadership\nMarket, customer & clinical insights\nProduct design & usability\nProduct governance & executional excellence\nRegulated product lifecycle management\nCross-functional influence\nCommercial acumen\nExecutive communication\nDeveloping self & others\nINTERDEPENDENCIES\nR&D - Product requirements, development priorities, technical feasibility, product architecture, roadmap execution, design control inputs, and next-generation product planning.\nClinical & Medical Affairs - Clinical evidence strategy, unmet needs identification, physician adoption insights.\nDigital / IT / Data / Cybersecurity - Connected monitoring roadmap, patient electronics and digital tools, device data, privacy, cybersecurity, analytics readiness, and supporting digital infrastructure.\nRegulatory & Quality - Compliance, risk management, design controls, human factors/usability, regulatory approvals, and lifecycle quality considerations.\nMarketing & Commercial - Customer insights, commercialization planning, launch readiness, adoption strategies, market expansion, field feedback, and portfolio performance.\nProfessional Education / Field Clinical / Technical Support - Clinician training, procedural adoption, patient and caregiver education, technical support inputs, field feedback, and safe product use.\nMarket Access & Health Economics - Value proposition development, reimbursement considerations, evidence requirements.\nOperations & Supply Chain - Manufacturing readiness, scalability, product availability, cost optimization, and supply risk.\nQUALIFICATIONS\nBachelor’s degree in Engineering, Life Sciences, Business, Healthcare, or related field.\n10-12+ years of progressive experience in Product Management, Innovation, Marketing, Strategy, R&D, or related healthcare leadership roles.\n7+ years of people leadership experience, including experience leading global, matrixed, or multi-level teams.\nExperience with product design, human factors/usability, digital health, connected care, or complex medical device product ecosystems preferred.\nDemonstrated success leading 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