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Additional Location(s): N/A Diversity - Innovation - Caring - Global Collaboration - Winning Spirit - High Performance At Boston Scientific, we’ll give you the opportunity to harness all that’s within you by working in teams of diverse and high-performing employees, tackling some of the most important health industry challenges. With access to the latest tools, information and training, we’ll help you in advancing your skills and career. Here, you’ll be supported in progressing – whatever your ambitions. About the Role We are seeking an experienced and collaborative leader to guide product strategy and new product development for the Endoscopy Imaging and portfolio. This role sits at the intersection of customer insight, business strategy, product marketing, and research and development. This leader will lead a team responsible for identifying meaningful unmet clinical needs, shaping long-range product and technology strategies, and advancing new solutions from early exploration through development and commercialization. The role will partner closely with engineering, clinical, regulatory, quality, operations, finance, business development, regional marketing, and commercial teams to translate strategic opportunities into executable product plans. This leader must be able to operate effectively in a complex, highly regulated environment, balance near-term business priorities with long-term innovation, and communicate sophisticated technical and commercial topics in a clear and actionable manner. Your responsibilities will include: Portfolio and Business Strategy • Develop and maintain a long-range strategy for single-use imaging technologies solutions, balancing customer needs, market dynamics, competitive developments, technical feasibility, business value, and organizational capabilities. • Lead portfolio planning and prioritization activities to focus resources on the opportunities with the greatest potential to improve patient care and create sustainable business value. • Evaluate organic development, external innovation, partnership, and co-development opportunities as potential pathways for advancing the portfolio. • Translate business strategy into clear product roadmaps, investment priorities, development objectives, and organizational recommendations. • Create decision frameworks that allow leaders to assess opportunities, risks, trade-offs, and resource requirements consistently. • Monitor relevant clinical, technological, regulatory, healthcare-economic, and competitive trends to identify emerging opportunities and potential business risks. New Product Development • Provide strategic leadership for products and platforms across the development lifecycle, from early opportunity identification and concept exploration through development, launch readiness, and lifecycle planning. • Ensure development programs are grounded in well-defined customer needs, meaningful clinical problems, and differentiated value propositions. • Partner with research and development teams to establish product requirements, development priorities, and evidence needs that support the intended customer and business outcomes. • Establish effective operating models across product management, engineering, and supporting functions to improve alignment, decision quality, milestone predictability, and execution. • Identify and help resolve cross-functional issues that may affect development strategy, resource allocation, program timing, or commercialization readiness. • Maintain an appropriate balance between execution of active programs and exploration of future technologies, solutions, and business models. Customer and Market Insight • Lead the collection and synthesis of voice-of-customer insights from healthcare professionals, administrators, commercial teams, and other appropriate stakeholders. • Translate customer observations and market research into actionable user needs, opportunity areas, value propositions, and product-development priorities. • Maintain a strong understanding of clinical workflows and the operational environment in which medical technologies are used. • Build relationships with external experts and customers to test strategic assumptions, evaluate concepts, and improve product and portfolio decisions. • Ensure customer insights are appropriately distinguished from internal hypotheses and validated through structured research when required. Commercialization and Lifecycle Planning • Partner with regional and commercial leaders to develop global strategies that can be adapted to differing customer needs, healthcare systems, and market conditions. • Guide early commercialization planning, including market development, customer segmentation, value proposition development, pricing considerations, evidence requirements, and adoption pathways. • Connect upstream development decisions with downstream launch requirements to support successful market introduction and sustained adoption. • Support product lifecycle strategy, including portfolio transitions, platform expansion, product improvements, and the introduction of complementary technologies and services. • Ensure strategic and development decisions consider the complete customer experience, including clinical workflow, implementation, training, service, connectivity, and ongoing support. Financial and Resource Leadership • Contribute to annual and long-range financial planning for the assigned portfolio. • Develop and assess business cases, market models, investment scenarios, and resource recommendations. • Work with functional leaders to align people, operating expenses, and development investments with agreed portfolio priorities. • Evaluate the financial and strategic implications of program delays, changing market conditions, competitive activity, technical risks, and alternative development pathways. • Communicate resource constraints and portfolio trade-offs clearly to stakeholders and decision-making forums. Cross-Functional and Global Leadership • Serve as a strategic partner to leaders across marketing, research and development, clinical, regulatory, quality, operations, finance, business development, and commercial functions. • Build alignment among stakeholders who may have different functional, regional, or financial priorities. • Lead complex discussions and facilitate timely, evidence-based decisions in situations where information may be incomplete or rapidly changing. • Represent the portfolio in leadership reviews, strategic planning sessions, and investment discussions. • Communicate portfolio strategy through clear, compelling presentations and narratives tailored to technical, commercial, and executive audiences. • Foster collaboration across global teams and ensure regional perspectives are incorporated into product and portfolio decisions. People and Organizational Leadership • Lead, coach, and develop a team of product, business, or technical professionals. • Establish clear roles, priorities, accountability, and decision rights across the team. • Develop employees through regular coaching, meaningful assignments, career planning, and actionable feedback. • Build succession and capability plans that support the organization’s current portfolio and future strategic needs. • Create an inclusive environment in which team members can respectfully challenge assumptions, raise risks, and contribute new ideas. • Promote a culture of customer focus, innovation, accountability, collaboration, and disciplined execution. • Support broader organizational development initiatives, including recruiting, onboarding, talent assessment, and functional capability building. Required Qualifications • Bachelor’s degree in business, marketing, engineering, life sciences, healthcare, or a related discipline. • A minimum of 5 years of experience in medical devices, healthcare technology, life sciences, or another highly regulated product-development environment. • Demonstrated experience leading new product development, upstream product management, portfolio strategy, innovation, or a closely related function. • Experience working across research and development, marketing, clinical, regulatory, quality, operations, and commercial organizations. • Demonstrated ability to identify customer needs and translate them into product strategy, development requirements, and business recommendations. • Strong strategic and financial acumen, including experience evaluating business cases, investment alternatives, and portfolio trade-offs. • Experience leading and developing employees or providing significant leadership to multidisciplinary teams. • Excellent communication, presentation, facilitation, and stakeholder-management skills. • Ability to influence decisions across functions and organizational levels without relying solely on formal authority. • Ability to manage multiple strategic initiatives and make sound decisions in a dynamic environment. • Ability to travel as needed to collaborate with global teams, customers, and external partners Preferred Qualifications • Advanced degree in business, engineering, healthcare, life sciences, or a related field. • Experience spanning more than one commercial or technical function, such as sales, marketing, product management, engineering, or research and development. • Experience with global medical device commercialization and product lifecycle management. • Experience with capital equipment, disposable devices, software-enabled products, digital health solutions, or connected healthcare technologies. • Experience evaluating partnerships, acquisitions, licensing opportunities, or external development models. • Knowledge of clinical research, regulatory strategy, reimbursement, healthcare economics, or market-access considerations. • Demonstrated success leading organizational change and building new capabilities, teams, or operating models. Leadership Capabilities The successful candidate will demonstrate: • Customer centricity: Maintains a deep understanding of clinical and operational needs and keeps patient and customer outcomes central to decision-making. • Strategic thinking: Connects market, clinical, technical, competitive, and financial information to establish a clear long-term direction. • Enterprise leadership: Makes decisions based on the needs of the broader business rather than a single product, function, or geography. • Influence and communication: Simplifies complex issues, creates compelling strategic narratives, and builds alignment among diverse stakeholders. • Talent development: Builds strong teams, develops future leaders, and creates opportunities for employees to expand their capabilities. • Decision quality: Applies structured judgment, data, and customer insight while recognizing uncertainty and actively managing risk. • Execution: Converts strategy into priorities, ownership, decisions, and measurable progress. • Innovation: Challenges established assumptions and considers multiple pathways for solving important customer and business problems. Work Mode: At Boston Scientific, we value collaboration and synergy. This role follows a hybrid work model requiring employees to be in our local office at least three days per week. Relocation Assistance: Relocation assistance is not available for this position at this time. Visa Sponsorship: Boston Scientific will not offer sponsorship or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this position at this time. Requisition ID: 636388 Minimum Salary: $ 131700 Maximum Salary: $ 250200 The anticipated compensation listed above and the value of core and optional employee benefits offered by Boston Scientific (BSC) – see www.bscbenefitsconnect.com— will vary based on actual location of the position and other pertinent factors considered in determining actual compensation for the role. Compensation will be commensurate with demonstrable level of experience and training, pertinent education including licensure and certifications, among other relevant business or organizational needs. At BSC, it is not typical for an individual to be hired near the bottom or top of the anticipated salary range listed above. Compensation for non-exempt (hourly), non-sales roles may also include variable compensation from time to time (e.g., any overtime and shift differential) and annual bonus target (subject to plan eligibility and other requirements). Compensation for exempt, non-sales roles may also include variable compensation, i.e., annual bonus target and long-term incentives (subject to plan eligibility and other requirements). For MA positions: It is unlawful to require or administer a lie detector test for employment. Violators are subject to criminal penalties and civil liability. Boston Scientific transforms lives through innovative medical technologies that improve the health of patients around the world. As a global medical technology leader for more than 45 years, we advance science for life by providing a broad range of high-performance solutions that address unmet patient needs and reduce the cost of healthcare. Our portfolio of devices and therapies helps physicians diagnose and treat complex cardiovascular, respiratory, digestive, oncological, neurological and urological diseases and conditions. Learn more at  www.bostonscientific.com  and follow us on  LinkedIn . Boston Scientific Corporation has been and will continue to be an equal opportunity employer. To ensure full implementation of its equal employment policy, the Company will continue to take steps to assure that recruitment, hiring, assignment, promotion, compensation, and all other personnel decisions are made and administered without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, age, mental or physical disability, genetic information or any other protected class. Please be advised that certain US based positions, including without limitation field sales and service positions that call on hospitals and/or health care centers, require acceptable proof of COVID-19 vaccination status. Candidates will be notified during the interview and selection process if the role(s) for which they have applied require proof of vaccination as a condition of employment. Boston Scientific continues to evaluate its policies and protocols regarding the COVID-19 vaccine and will comply with all applicable state and federal law and healthcare credentialing requirements. As employees of the Company, you will be expected to meet the ongoing requirements for your roles, including any new requirements, should the Company’s policies or protocols change with regard to COVID-19 vaccination.

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Additional Location(s): N/A
Diversity - Innovation - Caring - Global Collaboration - Winning Spirit - High Performance
Portfolio and Business Strategy
Lead portfolio planning and prioritization activities to focus resources on the opportunities with the greatest potential to improve patient care and create sustainable business value.
Evaluate organic development, external innovation, partnership, and co-development opportunities as potential pathways for advancing the portfolio.
Translate business strategy into clear product roadmaps, investment priorities, development objectives, and organizational recommendations.
Create decision frameworks that allow leaders to assess opportunities, risks, trade-offs, and resource requirements consistently.
Monitor relevant clinical, technological, regulatory, healthcare-economic, and competitive trends to identify emerging opportunities and potential business risks.
New Product Development
Provide strategic leadership for products and platforms across the development lifecycle, from early opportunity identification and concept exploration through development, launch readiness, and lifecycle planning.
Ensure development programs are grounded in well-defined customer needs, meaningful clinical problems, and differentiated value propositions.
Partner with research and development teams to establish product requirements, development priorities, and evidence needs that support the intended customer and business outcomes.
Establish effective operating models across product management, engineering, and supporting functions to improve alignment, decision quality, milestone predictability, and execution.
Identify and help resolve cross-functional issues that may affect development strategy, resource allocation, program timing, or commercialization readiness.
Maintain an appropriate balance between execution of active programs and exploration of future technologies, solutions, and business models.
Customer and Market Insight

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Advanced degree in business, engineering, healthcare, life sciences, or a related field.
Experience spanning more than one commercial or technical function, such as sales, marketing, product management, engineering, or research and development.
Experience with global medical device commercialization and product lifecycle management.
Experience with capital equipment, disposable devices, software-enabled products, digital health solutions, or connected healthcare technologies.
Experience evaluating partnerships, acquisitions, licensing opportunities, or external development models.
Knowledge of clinical research, regulatory strategy, reimbursement, healthcare economics, or market-access considerations.
Demonstrated success leading organizational change and building new capabilities, teams, or operating models.
Leadership Capabilities

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