[Hiring] Product Planning Manager @Fortive

Role Description

We are seeking a Product Planning Manager who can shape the future of our Biomedical portfolio through innovation, market analysis, and strategic foresight. Our products are critical to the maintenance and performance of medical devices in a healthcare setting. Join us in our mission to deliver trusted solutions to those who keep healthcare up and running, so they can focus on what matters most.

In this role, you will lead with insight—not just execution—owning the front-end of the innovation process and qualifying investment priorities. You’ll identify where the market is going, uncover unmet customer needs, and translate those insights into clear hardware and software product strategies, prioritized ideas to explore, and scalable growth potential. This role is not just about managing products—it’s about defining what we should build next and why.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in business, Marketing, Engineering, or related field
• 2+ years of product management or market-focused experience in a B2B technical environment
• Demonstrated success in driving product innovation and growth
• Experience with qualitative and quantitative market research methodologies
• Proven ability to contribute to business cases and influence investment decisions
• Excellent communication and presentation skills

Requirements

• MBA or equivalent strategic experience (Preferred)
• Experience defining product features and requirements in a structured framework (Preferred)
• Experience in biomedical testing, healthcare technology, or radiation safety markets (Preferred)

Benefits

• Strategic thinking with strong front-end product planning capability
• Customer centric mindset, focus on delivering real value and solving customer problems
• Analytical rigor with creative problem-solving
• Ability to operate in ambiguity and recommend direction early
• Strong collaborator and influence across cross-functional teams
• Genuinely curious and adaptable
• Awareness and usage of AI based tools to improve quality and speed of output

What Success Looks Like

• A robust pipeline of validated, high-impact product opportunities
• Clear, insight-driven new market opportunities, and roadmap priorities in core markets
• Strong alignment across leadership and execution teams on what to build and why
• Regular release of new products that deliver measurable differentiation in the market and revenue growth