4 Product Innovation jobs in Australia

**Who We Are Looking For:**
**Sets direction.** An innovator who defines ways to create value and deliver on Stryker's mission and strategic imperatives.
**Builds organizational capability.** A strategic executive who continuously breaks down barriers, identifying new and more effective ways to accomplish tasks and goals.
**Inspires others.** A genuine, relationship-focused leader who connects, collaborates and fosters an inclusive environment of enthusiasm, trust and pride. He/she makes others want to follow, building momentum for action and positively influencing outcomes.
The **Director Clinical Research & Market Access, APAC** will lead, develop and execute market access and clinical research activities across the Asia-Pacific region, aligning with the strategic direction and priorities for the Orthopaedics, Spine & Digital portfolio.
This position can be based in Singapore or Sydney, Australia.
**The Role**
+ To champion the needs of APAC with division ensuring key research needs are understood and incorporated into division commercial planning. To develop and coordinate an APAC wide research strategy that will communicate the economic and clinical value Stryker products can deliver across the APAC healthcare environment.
+ Coordination, Development and Execution of research plans that ensure Orthopaedics, Spine & digital is conducting the right research at the right cadence to support the business's growth expectations across the region, and develop research KOLs to deliver a strong podium and publication presence across the region and globally.
+ Accelerate the speed to market for products in APAC, and maximise reimbursement opportunities in collaboration with Regulatory and commercial leaders.
+ Internal Partnership with legal, compliance, commercial and division to ensure APAC can gain market access to current and future digital infrastructure, products and services.
+ To be a Clinical research and market access talent / brand ambassador, building key productive relationship with key educational institutes outside of Stryker and enhance clinical and reimbursement capabilities across the APAC region.
+ With a primary focus on Japan, SSP and China, while developing capabilities in the markets of India and East Asia, work closely with the regional marketing leadership, local GMs, business leaders and marketing teams to drive growth, align divisional and regional needs and execute, coordinate, support, and supplement relevant commercial activities in the region.
+ Act as an interface/bridge in the business to foster increased regional synergy and promote APAC needs, clinical and business opportunities of the region to division. Influencing and selling the power and potential of APAC to division and fostering divisional collaboration and regional representation on priority Orthopaedic, Spine & Digital portfolio programs.
+ Create an APAC clinical research leadership group to ensure local research activity is shared, all activity and research is visible and each trial delivers the maximum value to the region. While creating a clear podium plan for the regions key events to effectively communicate the value Stryker products can bring to APAC customers.
+ Visit local/regional teams to proactively identify and support business opportunities and gain market insights through VOC with local customers, and KOLs, to help develop and execute market access and clinical research activities.
+ Develop and maintain the 5-10yr market access, reimbursement and clinical research roadmap strategy/plan for the region across the Orthopaedic, Spine & Digital businesses. Including required investments, resources and impact / metrics estimates. Partner with division, and APAC RAQA, reimbursement, commercial and marketing teams to accelerate speed to market for products aligned to strategic growth segments / strategies.
+ Support the development and build the capability of the APAC reimbursement and clinical research teams in country, by driving a focus on increasing go to market / clinical research excellence in the region, and contributing to, commercialization plans and products launch execution.
**_Key areas of accountability:_**
+ Develop and grow our clinical research capabilities and accelerate market access and reimbursement in Asia Pacific
+ Responsible for designing and effective execution of the clinical research strategy for Orthopaedics, Spine & Digital. Establishing thought leadership in key segments where Stryker can lead thought leadership.
+ Working closely with market leadership teams to develop a clear clinical research strategy - these clinical studies should aid insights to overcome customer objections, demonstrate the clinical and economic value and maximise reimbursement of Stryker's products and services.
+ Develop a regional KOL network and build strong, trusted and influential relationships with these KOL's facilitating research, podium and publication strategies that are well planned and co-ordinated to drive thought leadership across the region for portfolio priorities and identified must win segments.
+ Establish and maintain strong, productive relationships with Universities, governments and other key health and technical organizations/thought leaders outside of Stryker.
+ Play an active role in APAC product launch teams for key priority products to accelerate market access and maximise reimbursement and the growth impact of product launches across APAC by driving enhanced clinical programs.
+ Ensuring Stryker has a resonating economic, value based health proposition for key Digital, Robotic and Enabling technologies today and into the future to demonstrate enhanced clinical outcomes and economic savings across healthcare markets in APAC.
+ Provide a clinical and reimbursement coordination across the Asia Pacific Markets and link with Product Divisions.
+ Collaborate and influence Division on global clinical strategies and develop specific market access and reimbursement plans for the key markets when needed. Partner with division to coordinate pre-commercialization / commercialization plan inputs to accelerate product access for Asia Pacific. Build trust and understanding with APAC markets to forge stronger relationships with division.
+ Be the point of contact for Asia Pacific for all OST clinical research and reimbursement related communication and activities. Ensuring that there are robust processes in place to share communications with markets across the region when relevant, to ensure research output is maximized and not duplicated
+ Collaborate with markets to develop and maintain a 5-10 year APAC wide clinical research and reimbursement roadmap.
+ Collaborate with markets to develop and maintain an APAC wide clinical research institute and KOL map, understanding unique and or specialized capabilities each can deliver.
+ Team Development
+ Provide direction, mentorship and development on clinical research, market access and reimbursement to required teams and customers across the APAC business.
+ Increase ambition and hold teams accountable to clinical research and reimbursement excellence, utilizing and coaching on Stryker frameworks
+ Promote a culture of integrity and achievement and lead the team to success with consistent reference to Stryker values
+ Work with regulatory teams on OST & Digital regulatory strategy and ensure support from division with timely provision of required product information, to accelerate speed to market.
+ Understand the data capture, management and transfer landscape, laws and regulations with respect to digital and data handling in the region, including informed consent and build out a growth plan for the region in order for Stryker to develop and accelerate scalable data intelligence and real world evidence collection to drive added clinical and economic value for our products and services across APAC markets.
**The Candidate**
+ Bachelor or Masters or PhD degree in scientific field, preferably in, Engineering, Science or in a relevant scientific field.
+ At least 10+ years of relevant clinical experience, with proven track record of success at a senior level.
+ Extensive experience within the Orthopaedics and Spine fields strongly preferred
+ Strong knowledge and application of clinical trial design, governance and publication pathways.
+ Expertise in developing clinical research plans in conjunction with marketing partners and driving clinical excellence across stakeholders both internally and externally.
+ High level capability in KOL management and development, with focus in clinical research, research execution, manuscript development, podium planning.
+ influencing ability across stakeholders of various cultures and seniority levels,
+ Demonstrated ability to work with multi-discipline, multi-technology teams to drive delivery of research and market access plans
+ Ability to build relationships across the organization and work with different cultures
+ Highly capable to manage complex projects, be strategic and have excellent planning and execution skills
Stryker is a global leader in medical technologies and, together with its customers, is driven to make healthcare better. The company offers innovative products and services in MedSurg, Neurotechnology, Orthopaedics and Spine that help improve patient and healthcare outcomes. Alongside its customers around the world, Stryker impacts more than 150 million patients annually.
Stryker Corporation is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status. Stryker is an EO employer - M/F/Veteran/Disability.

**Job Family:** Electrification & Automation
**Req ID:** 474312
Siemens Smart Infrastructure - Electrification and Automation is a global leader in sustainable and reliable energy solutions. Our Overhead Medium Voltage Systems (OMVS) business, headquartered in Yatala, Queensland, serves as the global center of competence for the development, manufacturing and lifecycle management of intelligent overhead protection systems. We are currently searching for an experienced Product Development Manager to lead our technically ambitious portfolio of projects and guide a multidisciplinary engineering team across R&D, embedded systems, mechanical design and software. This is a strategic leadership role that requires a strong engineering foundation, people management experience and the ability to collaborate well with global teams. Key Responsibilities: - Lead all product development activities for the global OMVS portfolio - Manage and mentor a high-performing, cross-functional engineering team - Oversee R&D project planning, budgeting, resource allocation and execution - Ensure compliance with cybersecurity, IP protection and technical standards - Drive project delivery excellence using Siemens Development System (SDS) principles - Foster cross-functional collaboration with operations, portfolio management and international stakeholders - Monitor and report on project progress, risks and outcomes to senior leadership - Support technical teams in defining requirements and solving complex engineering challenges - Ensure smooth handover of developed products to manufacturing and customer support - Promote a culture of innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement.About You: - Degree-qualified in engineering or applied science - Proven track record in leading complex product development programs - Strong leadership, team development and communication skills - Hands-on experience with embedded systems, mechanical products and/or software development - Skilled in project management and cross-functional coordination - Customer-focused, results-driven and comfortable working in a global environment.Why Siemens? Working at Siemens is exciting! Not only because of the impact you can make, but also because of the benefits we offer to make your work and life more enjoyable. We highly value and encourage personal growth through experience and training. We strive every day to provide technology with purpose, live and work with a growth mindset, empower our people, and multiply customer impact. As a technology company with sustainability an integral part of our business, Siemens is ideally positioned to leverage the convergence of digitalisation and sustainability to help our customers make their energy transition to net zero. Siemens is a proud equal opportunity employer, creating a work environment of diversity and inclusion. Our diverse workforce cultivates Innovation and Excellence and in turn creates a workplace where our employees belong and prosper. Diversity and inclusion help us fully realise the potential of our people. As part of Siemens Ownership culture, Siemens also supports reasonable flexible working practices that empower our employees to best meet work and personal commitments.

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Job Number #167549 - Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
**Who We Are**
Colgate-Palmolive Company is a global consumer products company operating in over 200 countries specializing in Oral Care, Personal Care, Home Care, Skin Care, and Pet Nutrition. Our products are trusted in more households than any other brand in the world, making us a household name!
Join Colgate-Palmolive, a caring, innovative growth company reimagining a healthier future for people, their pets, and our planet. Guided by our core values-Caring, Inclusive, and Courageous-we foster a culture that inspires our people to achieve common goals. Together, let's build a brighter, healthier future for all.
As a Senior Brand Manager - Innovation Personal Care and Home Care, you will play a critical role in shaping the future of our business by leveraging deep consumer, market, and competitive insights. You will drive growth through a robust and continuous innovation pipeline, working collaboratively across functions to bring breakthrough ideas to life.
**Key Responsibilities:**
+ **Opportunity Identification:** Proactively identify and capitalize on business opportunities by analyzing consumer behaviors, market trends, and competitor activities.
+ **Consumer-Centric Experiences:** Apply a thorough understanding of local consumers, customers, and competitors to design holistic experiences across the ecosystem-including launching new products, product forms, and innovative touchpoints.
+ **Innovation Strategy Development:** Develop and implement an innovation strategy, defining processes and methodologies grounded in consumer and shopper insights, competitor threats, and brand opportunities.
+ **Innovation Planning & Execution:** Create and maintain a dynamic, three-year pipeline of core ideas and concepts, to be iteratively tested and validated through multiple incubation phases. Ensure each phase generates learnings and actionable steps for continued progress.
+ **Cross-Functional Collaboration:** Lead and collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams-including technology, design, and communications-to ensure each innovation delivers intended technical, functional, and emotional benefits aligned with brand positioning and strategy.
+ **Project Management:** Co-manage and oversee all commercialization timelines for innovation projects, partnering with Brand Marketing and coordinating closely with internal teams (R&D, Quality, Procurement, Logistics, Legal, etc.) and external stakeholders to ensure timely and effective project delivery.
+ **Innovation Pipeline Leadership:** Champion a strong, renewable pipeline of innovation initiatives that deliver business growth and support long-term brand goals.
**Required:**
+ Bachelor Degree
+ Any advanced degree in Design, Design Thinking, Data/Analytics is an advantage.
+ Have a good design thinking mindset, proactively understand consumers especially on human emotions, define problems, make quick hypotheses and facilitate rapid prototyping to fulfill customer needs in a quick pace.
+ Moves beyond traditional ways of doing things; pushes past the status quo.
+ Tries multiple, varied approaches to innovative ideas.
+ Innovation Grid development
+ A/B testing and incubation method
+ Project Management skills
+ Articulate in precision and simplicity to convey ideas in conversations.
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**Our Commitment to Inclusion**
Our journey begins with our people-developing strong talent with diverse backgrounds and perspectives to best serve our consumers around the world and fostering an inclusive environment where everyone feels a true sense of belonging. We are dedicated to ensuring that each individual can be their authentic self, is treated with respect, and is empowered by leadership to contribute meaningfully to our business.
**Equal Opportunity Employer**
Colgate is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, ethnicity, age, disability, marital status, veteran status (United States positions), or any other characteristic protected by law.
Reasonable accommodation during the application process is available for persons with disabilities. Please complete this request form ( should you require accommodation.
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