[Hiring] Associate Manager, Field Planning & Execution @Insulet Corporation

Role Description

This is an excellent opportunity for someone who loves being at the center of the action and driving business impact without carrying a direct sales quota. As the Manager, Field Planning & Execution, you'll serve as the operational quarterback for Insulet's commercial organization, partnering with Sales, Marketing, Training, Analytics, and leadership teams to turn strategic priorities into real-world execution.

You'll lead cross-functional planning, manage high-visibility commercial pilots, gather and translate field insights into actionable recommendations, and help shape how future initiatives are scaled across the business. This role is ideal for a strong project manager and strategic thinker who thrives in a fast-paced, highly collaborative environment, enjoys influencing senior stakeholders, and wants the opportunity to directly improve the effectiveness of a national sales organization while helping bring innovative diabetes solutions to more patients.

The Manager, Field Planning & Execution is a senior individual contributor responsible for running the day-to-day operating cadence for integrated field planning and assigned commercial pilots across U.S. Field and Inside Sales.

• Manage intake for field-facing commercial initiatives: clarify incoming requests, assess field effort and customer impact, and size and sequence work for cross-functional decision.
• Facilitate recurring planning forums and publish concise decisions, actions, owners, and next steps.
• Maintain the roadmap of record, including timing, reach, dependencies, sustainment needs, and change impact, and coordinate with initiative owners to keep status current.
• Prepare analysis for planning discussions, including capacity risks and sequencing considerations.
• Contribute to prioritization criteria, effort scoring, and intake tools that keep planning decisions consistent and transparent for requesting teams.
• Coordinate the field side of innovation pilots from launch planning through closeout, including participant and territory selection, onboarding, field communication, and cadence management.
• Confirm roles, responsibilities, dependencies, and success measures with cross-functional owners before a pilot goes live.
• Surface execution barriers early and recommend solutions that protect customer experience, field capacity, and measurement quality.
• Keep pilot teams aligned on timelines, decisions, and open questions as scope evolves.
• Coordinate with sales leadership and field sales teams to gather structured input on initiatives, pilots, and field-facing programs.
• Support field advisory forums, surveys, and other feedback channels, ensuring requests have clear objectives and are routed through the appropriate channel.
• Synthesize qualitative field feedback into concise themes, implications, and recommendations.
• Connect field learning to planning decisions, pilot design, operational improvements, and future commercial initiatives.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to operationalize measures, data requirements, reporting cadences, and qualitative feedback plans.
• Monitor progress against approved measures and surface data-quality, workflow, or role-overlap issues that could affect interpretation.
• Synthesize results, field feedback, customer experience, and commercial outcomes into clear recommendations to scale, adapt, combine, or stop an approach.
• Build readouts and decision materials for cross-functional partners and leadership.
• Lead day-to-day coordination across Field Marketing, HCP Marketing, Consumer Marketing, Sales Leadership, Training & Clinical Business, Global Sales & Clinical Training, Medical, Data Science and Insights, Sales Effectiveness, and Sales Operations teams.
• Establish repeatable ways of working built on common definitions, timelines, measures, and governance standards.
• Clarify ownership, decision points, handoffs, and escalation paths for shared work, and escalate unresolved risks or ownership gaps.
• Identify opportunities to simplify work, reduce duplication, and protect customer-facing field time.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in marketing, Business, Communications, Analytics, Healthcare, or a related discipline.
• 4+ years of progressive experience in sales, marketing, commercial strategy, sales operations, program management, innovation, analytics, or a related commercial discipline.
• Demonstrated ownership of a recurring cross-functional planning process, governance forum, or program, including agenda, decisions, and follow-through.
• Proven experience managing complex, cross-functional projects or commercial pilots with responsibility for planning, execution, measurement, and stakeholder alignment.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently, exercise judgment, and recommend best practices in a matrixed organization.
• Experience developing senior leadership-ready updates, recommendations, presentations, and decision materials.

Requirements

• Experience in medical device, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, diabetes technology, health tech, or another regulated healthcare environment.
• Experience working with a large field sales organization or customer-facing commercial team.
• Experience with advisory boards, voice-of-customer programs, qualitative research, or survey design.
• Experience with integrated planning, portfolio or roadmap management, intake workflows, or program governance.
• Experience with pilot design, test-and-control approaches, or commercialization initiatives.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• 401(k) with company match.
• Paid time off (PTO).
• Additional employee wellness programs.

Company Description

Insulet Corporation (NASDAQ: PODD), headquartered in Massachusetts, is an innovative medical device company dedicated to simplifying life for people with diabetes and other conditions through its Omnipod product platform. The Omnipod Insulin Management System provides a unique alternative to traditional insulin delivery methods.

With its simple, wearable design, the tubeless disposable Pod provides up to three days of non-stop insulin delivery, without the need to see or handle a needle. Insulet’s flagship innovation, the Omnipod 5 Automated Insulin Delivery System, integrates with a continuous glucose monitor to manage blood sugar with no multiple daily injections, zero fingersticks, and can be controlled by a compatible personal smartphone in the U.S. or by the Omnipod 5 Controller.

Insulet also leverages the unique design of its Pod by tailoring its Omnipod technology platform for the delivery of non-insulin subcutaneous drugs across other therapeutic areas.

For more information, please visit insulet.com and omnipod.com.