VP Marketing

Job Description

VP, Marketing

Summary

The primary responsibility of the VP, Marketing is to Manage and oversee all positions within the Marketing department

Essential Functions

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Manage and oversee all positions within the Marketing department
• Weekly/monthly Marketing conference calls to update the team with necessary information
• Maintain a product fact book for each product
• Motivate the domestic sales force and international distributors
• Collect marketing intelligence
• Competitive benchmarks
• Trends and opportunities
• Customer expectations
• Act as a liaison between Sales, Manufacturing, R&D, etc.
• Participate in annual marketing plan and forecast development
• Work closely with Global Marketing and its outside vendors to implement promotional strategies within budget guidelines
• Participate in tradeshows
• Work closely with Clinical to achieve regulatory acceptance
• Participate on related new product development teams
• Predict and manage competitor’s actions
• Identify new product opportunities

Specifications of Authorities (when & where he can make a decision):

• Manage decisions throughout the Marketing department
• Approve and sign SOPS, work instructions, forms, regulatory and other documents related to the Marketing department.

Competencies

• Initiative
• Problem Solving/Analysis
• Technical Capacity
• Organizational Skills
• Communication Proficiency
• Ability to retain large amounts of information

Education and Experience Required

• BA/BS in Marketing or Business
• 10 + years professional marketing communications experience
• Knowledge of syndicated advertising to PR company
• Superior MS Office skills (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
• Experience in department management
• Experience working in medical device sales organization, aesthetics market is preferred
• Experience with FDA regulated industry is preferred

Skills Required

• Ability to multitask and be flexible in nature
• Comfort in a rapidly changing environment with competing and shifting priorities
• Ability to articulate issues clearly
• Good project and budget management skills
• Strong communicator and effective problem solver
• Excellent listening skills
• Excellent presentation skills
• Outstanding writing and editing skills
• Self-motivated and ability to work independently without daily direction
• Extremely organized and detailed
• Client focused
• Travel is required

Supervisory Responsibility

This position has direct reports and assists in mentoring peers and other departments as needed.

Work Environment

This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines. (Add anything that may be strange about the position i.e. employee must be ok visiting medical offices)

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. The employee is occasionally required to sit; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Travel

This position requires 35% travel as needed.

Work Authorization

Documentation showing eligibility to work in the United States will be required.

Substitute

If the employee is not available, the manager will be the responsible party.

Other Duties

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Alma, Inc. is Equal Opportunity Employment:

We're proud to be an equal opportunity employer and celebrate our employees' differences, regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or Veteran status.

E-Verification:

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