Sr. Product Planning Manager

Role Summary

We are seeking a Sr. 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—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 product strategies, prioritized ideas to explore, and scalable growth opportunities. This role is not just about managing products—it’s about defining what we should build next and why.

Requirements

• Market-driven strategist who continuously scans for emerging trends, unmet needs, and disruptive opportunities
• Innovation leader who thrives in ambiguity and proactively develops new product concepts and business models ahead of market trends and customer needs
• Structured thinker who identifies and translates market insights into clear product and business level strategies, business cases, and roadmaps
• Skilled Influencer and communicator who aligns executives and cross-functional leaders around a common vision
• Customer-centric problem solver who balances user needs, technical feasibility, and business outcomes
• Key Responsibilities Market Insight & Opportunity Identification
• Lead deep market and competitive analysis to identify whitespace opportunities and growth vectors in core and adjacent markets

Own process to synthesize discovery Voice of Customer (VoC), industry trends, and market insights into strategic opportunities to explore.

• Qualify and prioritize ideas by sizing markets, product ideas, defining customer problems, and estimating levels of desirability, viability, and feasibility
• Innovation & Product Strategy
• Champion a front-end innovation process, from concept ideation through business case validation
• Develop clear product visions, multi-year roadmaps, and portfolio strategies

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
• Drive new product planning frameworks including segmentation and value proposition design based on customer outcomes
• Define successful product lines, setting features and requirements priorities that will achieve the expected customer and business outcomes
• Product Execution & Portfolio Management
• Translate product vision and high-level product definitions to executable product requirements for development teams and portfolio product managers to execute

Proactively engage portfolio product managers and commercial teams to manage the product lifecycle, converting insights to prioritized core product roadmaps.

• Establish portfolio prioritization frameworks balancing growth roadmap ideas with core business needs
• Qualifications Requirements
• MBA or equivalent strategic experience
• Bachelor’s degree in business, Marketing, Engineering, or related field
• 5+ years of product management or market-focused experience in a B2B technical environment
• Demonstrated success in driving business growth via innovation, market-driven product planning, and innovation strategy
• Strong experience with qualitative and quantitative market research methodologies
• Proven ability to build business cases and influence investment decisions
• Excellent communication and presentation skills

Preferred

• Experience in biomedical testing, healthcare technology, or radiation safety markets
• Key Skills & Attributes
• Strategic thinking with strong front-end product planning capability
• Analytical rigor with creative problem-solving
• Ability to operate autonomously with high-level guidance
• Naturally leads through influence across all levels of the organization
• High levels of curiosity, adaptability, and a bias toward action
• Knowledge and advanced 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
• Discovery of new and attractive markets and unmet customer needs
• Clear, insight-driven product strategies and roadmap priorities, both core and new/adjacent 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

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.