Product Planning Manager

Role Summary

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.

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

Requirements

• 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
• 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

About the Company

Fortive 9 Behaviors by Level

Influencing & Mentoring

Customer Obsessed: Champions a customer-focused culture by anticipating evolving needs and shaping solutions that deliver long-term value.

Strategic: Drives organizational impact by using data to derive insights that inform near-term and mid-range goals.

Innovation for Impact: Influences innovation through demonstrating bold thinking and experimentation in own work and coaching others to do the same.

Inspiring: Demonstrates purpose-driven impact through expertise and collaboration.

Builds Extraordinary Teams: Drives impact through collaboration and influence by fostering trust, sharing expertise, and aligning efforts across teams.

Courageous: Influences and leads by example through action and integrity, moves quickly toward goals, tackles challenges head-on, and encourages open sharing of ideas without fear.

Delivers Results: Leads complex initiatives to successful completion with high standards, precision, and urgency.

Adaptable: Applies rigor and stays true to process while fostering adaptability within the team.

Lead with FBS: Embraces FBS and models lean principles by mentoring peers and influencing teams, and going to Gemba for first-hand insights.

Fortive Corporation Overview

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