Associate Marketing Product Manager

Job Description

Job Description

Description:

As an Associate Marketing Product Manager , you’ll be right at the heart of our mission to preserve life.

The Product & Category Management team at Safeguard Medical is the connective tissue that links innovation, operations, and market delivery. Every member of the team contributes to advancing our mission: ensuring that professionals have the tools they need to respond when seconds count.?

The Associate Marketing Product Manager provides the operational backbone for Safeguard’s global category management teams. This role ensures data integrity, launch readiness, and cross-functional communication. It’s a foundational role designed for emerging leaders who want to build deep product and market knowledge while supporting mission-critical programs across the organization? You won’t just be filling a role—you’ll be making a difference. Every decision, every action, every idea you bring to the table helps responders around the world save lives when it matters most.

Key objectives:

• Maintain accuracy of all product and portfolio data.
• Deliver timely and precise performance dashboards and insights.
• Support launch execution, trade show preparation, and campaign operations.
• Enable cross-functional communication and reporting cadence
• Represent Product Marketing on cross-functional initiatives

Essential Job Functions

• Manage SKU master data, pricing administration, product lifecycle documentation, and portfolio management systems, ensuring data accuracy and alignment across commercial, operational, and financial platforms.
• Maintain and govern SKU master data, ensuring accuracy of product attributes, descriptions, pricing, cost information, and lifecycle status across all business systems.
• Support pricing administration and governance processes, including new product pricing setup, price list maintenance, pricing updates, and distribution of customer-facing pricing communications.
• Conduct pricing, margin, and portfolio analyses to identify trends, opportunities, and risks that support category management and business objectives.
• Partner with Finance, Operations, Sales, and Product Management teams to validate pricing structures, product costs, and profitability assumptions.
• Assist in the development and execution of pricing strategies by compiling market intelligence, competitive pricing data, and customer feedback.
• Support annual price increase initiatives, including pricing analysis, documentation updates, implementation coordination, and post-launch tracking.
• Monitor SKU lifecycle activities including product introductions, discontinuations, substitutions, and rationalization initiatives.
• Support monthly / quarterly performance tracking and category KPI dashboards.
• Coordinate launch readiness and asset creation with marketing.
• Compile post-launch and trade show reports for ROI measurement.
• Log and maintain all VOC data and product feedback
• Team up with colleagues across our global network to solve real-world challenges
• Drive quality, innovation, and service in everything you do—because lives depend on it

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Marketing, Communications, or a related field required
• 1–3 years of experience in product or marketing operations preferred.
• Strong analytical and data organization skills.
• Excellent attention to detail and ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite and data tools.
• Preferred, but not required:
• Exposure product management, marketing, or supply chain functions.
• Familiarity with BI tools (Power BI) and/or other analytical platforms.
• Experience supporting trade shows, launches, or cross-functional projects.
• Experience in medical, safety, or tactical industries preferred
• Experience maintaining SKY master data, product catalogs, or pricing databases is preferred.

Experience maintaining SKU master data, product catalogs, or pricing databases preferred.

Competencies

• A sense of team and with a positive, can-do attitude
• A passion for helping others and wanting to be part of something that truly matters in emergency medicine
• Detail-driven and reliable under pressure.
• Able to build foundational knowledge across all product categories.
• Communicate clearly and proactively with all stakeholders at different levels of the organization
• Seek learning opportunities to progress toward Category Manager or Product Manager role.

Physical Requirements

Performing the duties of this job regularly involves sitting, standing, walking, hearing/listening, repetitive hand movement, grasping, and reaching. Vision requirements include the ability for close vision, to adjust focus, to color code.

Mental Requirements

This position requires the ability to maintain an appropriate work pace; to comprehend and follow instructions; to read, count and compute; to exercise logic and reasoning; to organize and prioritize; to problem solve; to make decisions; to analyze and interpret data; to multi-task/re-direct and experience numerous interruptions.

Other Requirements

Position may require the occasional on-call or after-hours shift including weekends.

Work Environment

The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet to moderate.

This job description is not designed to cover an exhaustive list of duties. Other duties may be assigned, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Safeguard Medical is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We are committed to a work environment that supports, inspires, and respects all individuals and in which personnel processes are merit-based and applied without discrimination based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

Safeguard Medical believes that diversity and inclusion among our teammates is critical to our success as a global company, and we seek to recruit, develop, and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool.

This job description is not designed to cover an exhaustive list of duties. Other duties may be assigned and activities may change at any time with or without notice.