Product Planning Manager

We are seeking a Product Planning Manager who can shape the future of our Biomedical portfolio through innovation, market analysis, and strategic foresight. Our products are critical to the maintenance and performance of medical devices in a healthcare setting. Join us in our mission to deliver trusted solutions to those who keep healthcare up and running, so they can focus on what matters most.

In this role, you will lead with insight-not just execution-owning the front-end of the innovation process and qualifying investment priorities. You’ll identify where the market is going, uncover unmet customer needs, and translate those insights into clear hardware and software product strategies, prioritized ideas to explore, and scalable growth potential. This role is not just about managing products-it’s about defining what we should build next and why.

Who You Are

• Market-driven strategist who continuously scans for emerging trends, unmet needs, and disruptive opportunities related to core markets
• Innovation leader who thrives in ambiguity and proactively develops product concepts in response to customer problems
• Structured thinker who translates market insights into clear product strategies, business cases, and roadmaps
• Influencer and communicator who knows how to get executive sponsorship and align cross-functional stakeholders around a common vision
• Customer-centric problem solver who balances user needs, technical feasibility, and business outcomes

Key Responsibilities

Market Insight & Opportunity Identification

• Execute deep market and competitive analysis to identify whitespace opportunities and growth vectors within core markets
• Synthesize discovery Voice of Customer (VoC), industry trends, and market insights into strategic opportunities to explore.
• Qualify and prioritize ideas by sizing market opportunities, defining customer problems, and estimating levels of desirability, viability, and feasibility

Innovation & Product Strategy

• Key contributor to the front-end innovation process, from concept ideation through business case validation
• Develop clear product visions, contribute to multi-year roadmaps and portfolio strategies with the product team.
• Define and prioritize high-impact problems worth solving, work with cross functional teams to test prototypes for product-market fit.
• Build and present business cases including financial modeling and ROI justification
• Define successful products, setting the features and requirements priorities that will achieve the expected customer and business outcomes

Product Execution & Portfolio Management

• Communicate product vision and high-level product definitions to executable product requirements for skilled development teams and portfolio product managers to develop and take to market
• Partner with portfolio product managers and commercial teams to manage the product lifecycle, applying business insights to priorities for innovation.
• Support idea prioritization frameworks, balancing growth roadmap ideas with core business needs

Qualifications

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in business, Marketing, Engineering, or related field
• 2+ years of product management or market-focused experience in a B2B technical environment
• Demonstrated success in driving product innovation and growth
• Experience with qualitative and quantitative market research methodologies
• Proven ability to contribute to business cases and influence investment decisions
• Excellent communication and presentation skills

Preferred

• MBA or equivalent strategic experience
• Experience defining product features and requirements in a structured framework
• Experience in biomedical testing, healthcare technology, or radiation safety markets

Key Skills & Attributes

• Strategic thinking with strong front-end product planning capability
• Customer centric mindset, focus on delivering real value and solving customer problems
• Analytical rigor with creative problem-solving
• Ability to operate in ambiguity and recommend direction early
• Strong collaborator and influence across cross-functional teams
• Genuinely curious and adaptable
• Awareness and usage of AI based tools to improve quality and speed of output

What Success Looks Like

• A robust pipeline of validated, high-impact product opportunities
• Clear, insight-driven new market opportunities, and roadmap priorities in core markets
• Strong alignment across leadership and execution teams on what to build and why
• Regular release of new products that deliver measurable differentiation in the market and revenue growth

Fortive Corporation Overview

Fortive's essential technology makes the world safer and more productive. We accelerate transformation in high-impact fields like workplace safety, build environments, and healthcare.

We are a global industrial technology innovator with a startup spirit. Our forward-looking companies lead the way in healthcare sterilization, industrial safety, predictive maintenance, and other mission-critical solutions. We're a force for progress, working alongside our customers and partners to solve challenges on a global scale, from workplace safety in the most demanding conditions to advanced technologies that help providers focus on exceptional patient care.

We are a diverse team 10,000 strong, united by a dynamic, inclusive culture and energized by limitless learning and growth. We use the proven Fortive Business System (FBS) to accelerate our positive impact.

At Fortive, we believe in you. We believe in your potential-your ability to learn, grow, and make a difference.

At Fortive, we believe in us. We believe in the power of people working together to solve problems no one could solve alone.

At Fortive, we believe in growth. We're honest about what's working and what isn't, and we never stop improving and innovating.

Fortive: For you, for us, for growth.

About Fluke Health Solutions

Comprised of four industry leaders-Fluke Biomedical, LANDAUER, RaySafe, and Victoreen - Fluke Health Solutions (FHS) leads the biomedical and radiation detection markets with innovative products and services that help keep customers, patients, and clients safe.

Fluke Biomedical leads the world in manufacturing biomedical test equipment like defibrillator analyzers and digital pressure meters. LANDAUER measures radiation exposure with dosimeter and radiation monitoring badges. RaySafe is the worldwide leader of X-ray test equipment, real-time staff dosimetry, and radiation survey meters. And Victoreen instruments are the trusted source for radiation monitoring systems and quality assurance for nuclear power professionals.

At FHS, we believe in your potential - your ability to learn, grow and contribute in meaningful ways. And we believe in giving you the opportunity, accountability, and visibility to do just that.

We Are an Equal Opportunity Employer. Fortive Corporation and all Fortive Companies are proud to be equal opportunity employers. We value and encourage diversity and solicit applications from all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, marital status, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or other characteristics protected by law. Fortive and all Fortive Companies are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities. Individuals who need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment application process, please contact us at [email protected].

Bonus or Equity

This position is also eligible for bonus as part of the total compensation package.

Pay Range

The salary range for this position (in local currency) is 88,000.00 - 147,000.00