Product Manager

Medline Industries, LP is seeking a Product Manager to join their Exam Gloves team. The Product Manager will oversee the entire product lifecycle, including sourcing, marketing, new product development, and sales support, while collaborating with the sales team to promote products effectively.

Responsibilities

• Identify and develop new products and manage each stage of the process through take to market.
• Develop and implement comprehensive marketing plans and promotional programs for existing products to include product strategy development, pricing strategy, collateral creation and brand management.
• Review monthly financial performance and determine contributing factors. Offer solutions for detrimental sales or cost trends. Prepare product forecasts to include revenue and expense expectations. Analyze sales trends over time and impact of competitive strategies. Support forecasts and budgets with appropriately detailed marketing plans.
• Work with Manufacturing, Purchasing and Engineering to reduce Cost of Goods by assessing packaging, alternate materials, new sources of material, stocking, make to order, direct to customer shipments, etc. Manage inventory by focusing on eliminating surplus and optimizing SKU count. May negotiate pricing with vendors for raw materials and finished goods. Visit vendors to develop products and train personnel all aspects of each product and usages. Coordinate materials with vendors and develop finished custom items.
• Analyze and bid on GPO and/or Integrated Delivery Network contracts for assigned product categories.
• Develop and deliver training materials for internal stakeholders, sales forces and customers. Create sales tools.
• Conduct market research and translate that research into new products, product improvements, or line extensions by providing leadership to a multi-functional team.
• Travel with sales force to support efforts to convert customers to purchase Medline products. Provide timely follow up to sales forces by answering product questions via e-mail and phone.

Skills

• At least 2 years of marketing, sales, product management or clinical practice experience (preferably in the healthcare industry).
• Experience negotiating with outside vendors and internal resources.
• Experience collecting and analyzing financial data.
• Willing to travel up to 50% of the time for business purposes (within state and out of state).
• Intermediate level skill in Microsoft Word (for example: inserting headers, page breaks, page numbers and tables and/or adjusting table columns).
• Intermediate level skill in Microsoft PowerPoint (for example: applying a theme, formatting character spacing, inserting a picture, changing slide layout and theme colors, adding transitions, customizing slide numbers, changing chart style and/or formatting font).
• Intermediate level skill in Microsoft Excel (for example: using SUM function, setting borders, setting column width, inserting charts, using text wrap, sorting, setting headers and footers and/or print scaling).

Education Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Life and disability
• 401(k) contributions
• Paid time off

Company Overview

• Medline is the largest provider of medical-surgical products and supply chain solutions serving all points of care. It was founded in 1966, and is headquartered in Mundelein, Illinois, USA, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is http://www.medline.com/home.jsp.

• Company H1B Sponsorship

• Medline Industries, LP has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 115 in 2025, 144 in 2024, 142 in 2023, 143 in 2022, 137 in 2021, 113 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.