Product Planning Manager

At Fortive, we develop essential technologies that accelerate progress. We are seeking a Product Planning Manager who can shape the future of our medical equipment QA 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.
Who You Are
Market-driven strategist who continuously scans for emerging trends, unmet needs, and disruptive opportunities related to core markets
Innovation leader who thrives in ambiguity and proactively develops product concepts in response to customer problems
Structured thinker who translates market insights into clear product strategies, business cases, and roadmaps
Influencer and communicator who knows how to get executive sponsorship and align cross-functional stakeholders around a common vision
Customer-centric problem solver who balances user needs, technical feasibility, and business outcomes
Key Responsibilities
Market Insight & Opportunity Identification
Execute deep market and competitive analysis to identify whitespace opportunities and growth vectors within core markets
Synthesize discovery Voice of Customer (VoC), industry trends, and market insights into strategic opportunities to explore.
Qualify and prioritize ideas by sizing market opportunities, defining customer problems, and estimating levels of desirability, viability, and feasibility
Innovation & Product Strategy
Key contributor to the front-end innovation process, from concept ideation through business case validation
Develop clear product visions, contribute to multi-year roadmaps and portfolio strategies with the product team.
Define and prioritize high-impact problems worth solving, work with cross functional teams to test prototypes for product-market fit.
Build and present business cases including financial modeling and ROI justification
Define successful products, setting the features and requirements priorities that will achieve the expected customer and business outcomes
Product Execution & Portfolio Management
Translate product vision and high-level product definitions to executable product requirements for development teams and portfolio product managers to execute
Partner with portfolio product managers and commercial teams to manage the product lifecycle, applying business insights to priorities for innovation.
Support portfolio prioritization frameworks, balancing growth roadmap ideas with core business needs
Qualifications
Requirements
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
Preferred
MBA or equivalent strategic experience
Experience in biomedical testing, healthcare technology, or radiation safety markets
Key Skills & Attributes
Strategic thinking with strong front-end product planning capability
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 product strategies 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

Skills
Product Management, Financial Modeling

Work arrangement
Yes