Medline Industries, LP · 8 hours ago
VP of Product Management
Northfield, IL
Full-time
Onsite
Director/Executive
$202K/yr - $303K/yr
10+ years expMedline Industries, LP is a leading company in the healthcare sector, seeking a VP of Product Management to oversee and lead large Product Teams. This role involves developing marketing strategies, mentoring staff, negotiating with vendors, and conducting market research to drive product growth and financial performance.
Consumer GoodsHealth CareHospitalityManufacturingMedical
Responsibilities
Negotiate pricing with vendors for raw materials and finished goods. Visit vendors to develop products and train personnel in all aspects of each product and usages. Coordinate materials with vendors and develop finished custom items
Develop and implement comprehensive marketing plans and promotional programs for existing and/or new products to include product strategy development, pricing strategy, collateral creation and brand management
Develop and mentor staff through on-boarding, open communication, training and development opportunities and performance management processes; build and maintain employee morale and motivation; ensure the team is appropriately staffed with required competencies
Review monthly financial performance and determine contributing factors. Offer solutions for detrimental sales or cost trends. Prepare product forecasts to include revenue and expense expectations. Analyze sales trends over time and impact of competitive strategies. Support forecasts and budgets with appropriately detailed marketing plans
Work with Product Teams, Manufacturing, Purchasing, and Engineering to reduce Cost of Goods by assessing packaging, alternate materials, new sources of material, stocking, make to order, direct to customer shipments, etc. Manage inventory by focusing on eliminating surplus and optimizing SKU count
Determine strategy on GPO and/or IDN contracts for assigned product categories
Develop and deliver training materials for internal stakeholders, sales forces and customers. Create sales tools
Conduct effective market research and translate that research into new products, product improvements, or line extensions by providing leadership to a multi-functional team
May travel with sales force to support efforts to convert key customers to purchase Medline products or respond to escalated critical issues
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Business or Clinical
At least 10 years of marketing, sales, product management or clinical practice experience (preferably in the healthcare industry)
At least 4 years of experience managing people, including hiring, developing, motivating and directing people as they work
Experience negotiating with outside vendors, including negotiating contracts, prices, resolving service issues and reconciling differences
Willing to travel up to 50% of the time for business purposes (within state and out of state)
Intermediate level skill in Microsoft Word (for example: inserting headers, page breaks, page numbers and tables and/or adjusting table columns)
Intermediate level skill in Microsoft PowerPoint (for example: applying a theme, formatting character spacing, inserting a picture, changing slide layout and theme colors, adding transitions, customizing slide numbers, changing chart style and/or formatting font)
Intermediate level skill in Microsoft Excel (for example: using SUM function, setting borders, setting column width, inserting charts, using text wrap, sorting, setting headers and footers and/or print scaling)
Preferred
MBA
Benefits
Health insurance
Life and disability
401(k) contributions
Paid time off
Company
Medline Industries, LP
Medline is the largest provider of medical-surgical products and supply chain solutions serving all points of care.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$0.5MKey Investors
North Carolina Department of Commerce
2025-12-17IPO
2021-06-05Private Equity
2019-09-12Grant· $0.5M
Leadership Team
Steve Miller
Chief Operating Officer
Amanda Laabs
Chief Product Officer
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