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As a Wound Care Product Manager at Van Heek Medical, you will be given end-to-end responsibilities: from market and customer insight to strategy, from business case to pricing, and from launch to portfolio optimisation. You will see immediate results from your work-short lines, a lot of influence and plenty of room to build and develop.
About Van Heek Medical
Van Heek Medical supplies high-quality medical devices for wound, continence, diabetes and acute care with strong own brands such as Heka, Hekura, Hekamed, Betica and Decifera. We are a committed SME organisation with around 75 colleagues in Venray. In our marketing/product management team, you will work closely together with colleagues who like to think along and change gear quickly. Culture: open, informal, working together.
Van Heek Medical is a supplier of high-quality medical devices. We specialise in products for wound, continence, diabetes and acute (first aid and BHV) care and offer a wide variety of brands, including our own brands such as Heka, Hekura, Hekamed, Betica and Decifera. These products are developed on the basis of the latest insights and developments in healthcare.
Working within Van Heek means working in a friendly, informal company. Together with our team of about 90 colleagues, we work from our office/warehouse in Venray. There is good mutual contact and colleagues easily seek each other out.
Besides yourself, our marketing team consists of six colleagues. We work with product and brand managers for the various segments and collaborate frequently and frequently.
Van Heek Medical is part of Asker Healthcare, a leading European player in the medical device market.
You own (part of) our wound care portfolio and ensure that products are commercially and operationally successful. Your impact in practice:
- Ownership of portfolio and product strategy based on market and customer insights.
- Build business cases and translate them into a clear proposition, pricing strategy and healthy margin targets.
- Direct introductions and relaunches in collaboration with marketing & sales.
- Analyse data (including in Excel) for forecasting, margin optimisation and phase-in/out of SKUs.
- Maintain (inter)national supplier contacts and work closely with Purchasing, Quality, Sales and Customer Service. You switch effortlessly between strategy and doing: researching, deciding, planning-and delivering
Do you have a background as a (wound) nurse, nurse specialist, PA, or other healthcare professional and want to move into product management? We strongly invite you to apply. If you bring ownership, commercial acumen and learning drive, we will provide a solid induction process and guidance on product management skills.
Are you at the beginning of your career or do you already have several years of experience as a (junior) product manager? Then we strongly invite you to respond.
We are open to junior and medior product managers, as well as ambitious starters who have just completed their college or university education and want to develop within product management in a professional, commercial and international environment.
At Van Heek Medical, you will have the opportunity to:
We look emphatically for potential, analytical ability, eagerness to learn and commercial interest. Affinity with medical devices or healthcare is a plus, but not a requirement - we will gladly teach you that knowledge.
Must-haves
- HBO working and thinking level.
- Ownership and proactivity: you initiate, decide and conclude.
- Commercial acumen: you think in terms of customer value, turnover and margin.
- Planning & organising: you keep an overview, set priorities and monitor deadlines.
- Stress-resistant: you remain effective during peak workloads and multiple projects simultaneously.
- Strong communicator and stakeholder manager (internal/external).
- Good command of Dutch and English (verbal and written).
Nice-to-haves
- Experience in wound care or medical devices (or) demonstrable affinity with this market.
- Experience as a product manager/brand manager in (para)medical/B2B environments.
- Excel proficient (including pivot tables/XLOOKUP) and used to working data-driven.
- Familiar with pricing strategy, margin management and portfolio management.
- Salary up to €5,000 gross p/m based on full-time, depending on knowledge and experience.
- Employment minimum 32 hours (up to 40 hours).
- Bonus scheme and 30 holidays (based on full-time).
- Travel allowance €0.23 per km.
- Hybrid working possible + home working allowance €2.40 per day.
- Excellent pension scheme (2/3 by employer).
- Access FiscFree for tax breaks on selected expenses.
Apply directly online via the button below or send your motivation and CV to hr@vanheekmedical.nl, attention: Hannine Schalk. Do you have any questions? Contact us and we'll gladly tell you more about the vacancy.