Manager, Marketing Operations - Sports

About This Role

Managing marketing operations for the Sports business, this role drives commercial execution and sales support activities to optimize the business. It involves supporting local and regional meetings, account targeting, and strategy, partnering closely with sales and marketing leadership to align execution with business priorities and deliver operational excellence.

Responsibilities

• Develop strong relationships with internal cross-functional partners to provide on-site support
• Be responsive in responding to requests from customers and sales consultants
• Work collaboratively with functional areas and Strategic Partners to ensure business issues are addressed
• Drive targeting and CRM related activation of sales force and customers
• Achieve worldwide business plan objectives of sales, net income, gross profit, inventory and price on an annual basis
• Manage expenses within budget
• Increase company’s leadership position in trauma market
• Support and execute impactful worldwide product launches
• Develop targeting and channel strategy and support inventory roll-out plan, and sales tools
• Lead coordination with Regional Marketing teams and key countries
• Contribute to multigenerational portfolio plans aligned to company strategy
• Partner with Marketing on new product launches
• Leverage strong understanding of product launch processes and functional areas such as commercial operations, sales force engagement, and customer strategy
• Provide direction and mentorship to junior members of the DePuy Synthes team
• Interact extensively with external partners requiring collaboration and management of the partner resources and development processes

Requirements

• A minimum of a BA/BS degree or equivalent is required
• A minimum of 4 years of relevant business experience is required
• A minimum of 2 years experience in healthcare / medical device marketing, sales, finance, or other commercial experience is required
• Demonstrated leadership capability through influencing, including the ability to lead and manage through change is required
• Excellent analytical skills with abilities to discern insights from large data sets is required
• Excellent listening, written, and oral communications skills
• Excellent organizational skills along with the ability to make sales presentations with positive results is required
• Ability to manage stakeholders; which includes communicating, influencing, and providing comprehensive solutions is required
• Strong problem-solving, organizational, and project management skills, including the ability to design, structure, and lead projects is required