Associate Product Manager
- Mentor, OH, United States
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Position Summary
As an Associate Product Manager you will support the execution of marketing, sales enablement, and product strategy for an assigned product category. This role is highly collaborative and executionfocused, and you will serve as a key connector between product management, sales teams, clinicians, and crossfunctional partners. This role is designed to develop future product and marketing leaders through handson execution, field exposure, and close partnership with senior product management.
Success in this role is driven by strong organizational skills, clear communication, analytical rigor, and a willingness to spend time in the field learning directly from clinicians and sales representatives. As an Associate Product Manager you play an integral role in coordinating events and education, maintaining and evolving sales tools, supporting financial planning through reporting and analysis, and translating customer insights into actionable inputs for product and marketing strategies. You will achieve success in this role through effective implementation in the following areas:
- Marketing Strategy, Reporting, & Financial Planning
- Sales Execution Support, Communication & Program Management
- Event Planning, Education & Program Management
- Field Engagement & Clinical Learning
- Market Research & New Product Development
This is a hybrid role with the requirement of working onsite at our Mentor, OH Corporate HQ, 3 days per week.
Associate Product Manager
Marketing Strategy, Reporting, & Financial Planning
- Support global financial planning processes by preparing regular sales, revenue, and forecast reports for assigned product categories.
- Maintain dashboards, trackers, and analysis to evaluate performance versus plan, identify trends, and surface risks or opportunities.
- Partner with Senior Product Managers to support annual strategy planning, budgeting, and ongoing forecast updates.
- Translate data into clear summaries and recommendations for leadership, sales and crossfunctional stakeholders.
Sales Execution Support, Communication & Program Management
- Serve as a point of contact for routine sales inquiries related to product positioning, competitive information, and available resources.
- Develop, update, and maintain sales tools including presentations, product overviews, competitive matrices, FAQs, and clinical selling resources.
- Ensure sales tools remain current, aligned with brand strategy, and easily accessible for global sales teams.
- Proactively communicate product updates, launch information, and competitive insights to the sales organization in clear, actionable formats.
Event Planning, Education & Program Coordination
- Lead coordination and execution of educational programs, workshops, and associationrelated events supporting assigned product categories.
- Manage logistics including agendas, contracts, speaker coordination, materials development, and onsite execution in partnership with sales, clinical, and external stakeholders.
- Support national, regional, and local conferences by assisting with booth management, presentations, and postevent followup.
- Track event outcomes and feedback to assess effectiveness and inform future programming.
Field Engagement & Clinical Learning
Spend regular time in the field with sales representatives to observe customer interactions, understand workflow challenges, and gain handson exposure to clinical environments (up to 25%).
Observe procedures, product usage, and clinician decisionmaking to deepen understanding of customer needs and unmet opportunities.
Capture and synthesize field insights, sharing learnings with product management, marke
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Skills
- Sales
- Organizational skills
- Communication skills
- Coordinate events
- Financial planning
- Reporting
- Customer insight
- Program management
- Event planning
- Market research
- Budget management
- Leadership
- Presentation skills
- Manage logistics
- Workflow