Director Portfolio Strategy and Planning

vor 3 Wochen


Sydney, Österreich Cochlear Vollzeit
Director Portfolio Strategy and Planning

Product Management & Development (Marketing & Communications)

Full time

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Cochlear's mission is to help people hear and be heard. As the global leader in implantable hearing solutions, Cochlear is dedicated to helping people with moderate to profound hearing loss experience a life full of hearing. We aim to give people the best lifelong hearing experience and access to innovative future technologies. We collaborate with the industry's best clinical, research, and support networks. That's why more people choose Cochlear than any other hearing implant company. Learn and grow with us as we tackle the most complex challenges in helping more people to hear and experience life's opportunities.

The Opportunity

Cochlear has a full-time opportunity for a Director, Portfolio Strategy & Planning based in our Macquarie, Sydney Global HQ. In this role, the successful Director, Portfolio Strategy & Planning will lead the Portfolio Strategy & Planning team and be responsible for driving Cochlear's annual Product & Services Plan (PSP) strategic planning process. This role is critical to ensuring technology leadership, sustaining market share leadership, and accelerating growth in our market/category.

Responsibilities include:

  • Portfolio Evolution and Prioritization: Ensure ongoing debates about how the PSP portfolio should evolve in the short (2-3 years) and long term (3-10 years), and prioritize projects aligned with Cochlear's key future business objectives and market opportunities.
  • Stakeholder Engagement: Enhance the PIP process to ensure appropriate engagement and buy-in from senior leadership in R&D, AI, IT, Regions, Global Marketing, and Services.
  • Team Leadership: Create a team that can drive debates and directions of PSP based on market evidence and the needs of the organization and the market.
  • Sensitivity Analysis: Align Cochlear's senior leadership (CLTD and Regions) around an annual Sensitivity Analysis on how the mix and value of Cochlear's portfolio might evolve with the launch of next-generation smart implants.
  • Commercial Impact Review: Direct a formal Commercial Impact Review (including Lessons Learned) of recently launched products.

What makes this opportunity unique?

This role uniquely combines strategic planning with commercial success, creating a plan to align product and service portfolio strategies with business objectives. As a leader, you will ensure that solutions not only meet business needs but also drive tangible commercial impact. From development to delivery, you will play a hands-on role in managing risks and enhancing organizational performance. The desire to make a tangible difference to the business, coupled with a commitment to achieving the greater purpose of the organization, is critical. Additionally, you will have the ability to enable senior leadership to deliver outcomes that contribute to the overall business strategy.

About You

As we grow our operations, we are looking for people who share our passion for delivering quality hearing solutions to our customers. To add value to Cochlear in this role, you'll be able to demonstrate the following skills and experience:

  • Significant experience running strategic planning processes for large global companies, ideally in multiple types of companies/industries.
  • Significant experience in a product management role for a leading global med-tech and/or health services company.
  • Proven ability to influence senior executive teams, develop presentations, and present to senior executive teams.
  • Significant project management experience with disparate, cross-functional teams.
  • Proven ability to quickly analyze new categories and technologies as part of classic management consulting opportunity assessment processes.

Ideal:

  • 5 years' experience with a leading Strategy Consultancy, at Senior Manager or Engagement Manager level, ideally primarily working with leading global med-tech and/or health services companies.
  • Significant experience in market research / market analytics role.
  • Advanced degree (MBA) preferred. Technical degree (e.g., biomedical engineering) preferred.

How we recognise your contribution

We want Cochlear to be a place where our people truly enjoy coming to work. Through our internal programs and employee benefits, we aim to create an environment where our people feel valued and supported. Whether your focus is on continuous learning, professional development, or simply finding an environment that enables you to thrive while balancing family or personal life commitments, we have several programs in place to support you.

For more information about Life at Cochlear, visit www.cochlearcareers.com

At Cochlear, we value and welcome the unique contributions, perspectives, experiences, and backgrounds of our employees and aim to build a culture that celebrates and leverages these differences, creating a sense of belonging and enabling our people to realize their full potential. We offer flexible working arrangements, and we understand flexibility is not the same for everyone. We're open to a conversation about what flexibility means for you.

Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology & Medical Devices

We help people hear and be heard. We empower people to connect with others and live a full life.

We help transform the way people understand and treat hearing loss.

We innovate and bring to market a range of implantable hearing solutions that deliver a lifetime of hearing outcomes.

A cochlear implant is an established, effective and long-term solution for people with moderate to profound hearing loss. Cochlear pioneered the implant technology and is still the world’s industry leader.

Our range of proven, life-changing hearing solutions is trusted by more than 250,000 people around the globe. But we don’t just make products. Cochlear is a lifelong hearing partner who will support you at every stage of your journey.

Source: this is an extract from the company’s own website

We help people hear and be heard. We empower people to connect with others and live a full life.

We help transform the way people understand and treat hearing loss.

We innovate and bring to market a range of implantable hearing solutions that deliver a lifetime of hearing outcomes.

A cochlear implant is an established, effective and long-term solution for people with moderate to profound hearing loss. Cochlear pioneered the implant technology and is still the world’s industry leader.

Our range of proven, life-changing hearing solutions is trusted by more than 250,000 people around the globe. But we don’t just make products. Cochlear is a lifelong hearing partner who will support you at every stage of your journey.

Source: this is an extract from the company’s own website

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