External Innovation Strategy Manager
External Innovation Strategy Manager
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Convatec is a global medical products and technologies company focused on solutions for the management of chronic conditions with leading positions in advanced wound care ostomy care continence care and infusion care. With around 10000 colleagues we provide our products and services in almost 100 countries united by a promise to be forever caring. Our solutions provide a range of benefits from infection prevention and protection of atrisk skin to improved patient outcomes and reduced care costs. Group revenues in 2024 were over $2.2 billion. The company is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index (LSE:CTEC).
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Change is everywhere at ConvaTec. Its transforming our business and helping us improve millions of lives. And were nowhere near finished. Across every part of our business were pushing for better.
Join us as an External Innovation Strategy Manager and youll do the same.
As the External Innovation Strategy Manager you will play a key role in helping to identify and analyze valuable technology opportunities in which Convatec will make investments. You will serve at the forefront of research analysis and insight development that will enable Convatec decisions to place bets on future business opportunities.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Designing and executing projects that develop insights and recommendations to guide investment decision making based on data and research these projects can cover a variety of objectives:
Unmet needs assessment for target clinical conditions
Technology adoption potential considering HCPs payers and patients
Reimbursement potential for new technologies
Target business case development
- Conducting data analytics determining category trend insights and creating output visualizations to help inform innovation area recommendations and business development opportunities
- Collaborating with clinical regulatory R&D and commercial stakeholders to evolve our understanding of opportunity areas and defining target company shortlists
- Driving continuous improvement of our process and analytics to drive crossbusiness consistency and evolution of our ability to define relevant potential segments and targets
- Developing executive communication materials to share your findings with key stakeholders at business unit and executive leadership levels
- Coordinating with business marketing medical and R&D leaders to understand Convatec capabilities to integrate new technology
EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE
- Science engineering or other degree with strong numeracy requirements from a toptier university
- Optional: MBA from a toptier school
- Proven ability to design and execute strategy projects that provide clearly communicated recommendations based on executed research and analysis
- Strong attention to detail as the research data analytic and resulting insights will help to inform strategy & investment decisions
- Strong analytical skillset and ability to present data and insights in a concise informative manner with strong related competency in Excel and PowerPoint
- Preferably some level of life sciences experience to ensure appropriate comprehension of information being researched e.g. within publications on medical technologies and the relevant highlevel steps that are required to bring innovation to market within medical devices
- Preferrable 13 years consultant level role experience from within a toptier management consulting firm
- Motivated easy to work with and collaborative
The position is a hybrid role with the expectation to be present in the office on a regular basis.
The position will involve travel to 48 conferences per year plus project related travel to collaborate with crossfunctional teams (primarily Europe and US).
Our ambitions will bring the very best out in you. Youll be pushed to aim higher and really own your work. Youll be encouraged and supported to make things happen too. It can be challenging. But as the progress you make will help improve the lives of millions itll be worth it.
This is stepping up to a challenge.
This is work thatll move you.
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Equal opportunities
Convatec provides equal employment opportunities for all current employees and applicants for employment. This policy means that no one will be discriminated against because of race religion creed color national origin nationality citizenship ancestry sex age marital status physical or mental disability affectional or sexual orientation gender identity military or veteran status genetic predisposing characteristics or any other basis prohibited by law.
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Employment Type
Full-Time
