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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
Fortive Corporation Overview
Fortive's essential technology makes the world safer and more productive. We accelerate transformation in high-impact fields like workplace safety, build environments, and healthcare.
We are a global industrial technology innovator with a startup spirit. Our forward-looking companies lead the way in healthcare sterilization, industrial safety, predictive maintenance, and other mission-critical solutions. We're a force for progress, working alongside our customers and partners to solve challenges on a global scale, from workplace safety in the most demanding conditions to advanced technologies that help providers focus on exceptional patient care.
We are a diverse team 10,000 strong, united by a dynamic, inclusive culture and energized by limitless learning and growth. We use the proven Fortive Business System (FBS) to accelerate our positive impact.
At Fortive, we believe in you. We believe in your potential—your ability to learn, grow, and make a difference.
At Fortive, we believe in us. We believe in the power of people working together to solve problems no one could solve alone.
At Fortive, we believe in growth. We're honest about what's working and what isn't, and we never stop improving and innovating.
Fortive: For you, for us, for growth.
About Fluke Health Solutions
Comprised of four industry leaders—Fluke Biomedical, LANDAUER, RaySafe, and Victoreen — Fluke Health Solutions (FHS) leads the biomedical and radiation detection markets with innovative products and services that help keep customers, patients, and clients safe. Fluke Biomedical leads the world in manufacturing biomedical test equipment like defibrillator analyzers and digital pressure meters. LANDAUER measures radiation exposure with dosimeter and radiation monitoring badges. RaySafe is the worldwide leader of X-ray test equipment, real-time staff dosimetry, and radiation survey meters. And Victoreen instruments are the trusted source for radiation monitoring systems and quality assurance for nuclear power professionals. At FHS, we believe in your potential — your ability to learn, grow and contribute in meaningful ways. And we believe in giving you the opportunity, accountability, and visibility to do just that.
We Are an Equal Opportunity Employer. Fortive Corporation and all Fortive Companies are proud to be equal opportunity employers. We value and encourage diversity and solicit applications from all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, marital status, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or other characteristics protected by law. Fortive and all Fortive Companies are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities. Individuals who need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment application process, please contact us at applyassistance@fortive.com.
Pay Range
The salary range for this position (in local currency) is 114,100.00 - 190,500.00.
Base pay offered may vary depending on various factors, including, but not limited to: job-related knowledge; skills; experience; and other eligibility factors such as geographic location. The Total Rewards package includes competitive base pay and an opportunity to enroll in a variety of benefit programs, generally including health insurance, flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts, retirement savings plans, life and disability insurance programs, and several programs that provide for both paid and unpaid time away from work.
Comprised of four industry leaders—Fluke Biomedical, LANDAUER, RaySafe, and Victoreen — Fluke Health Solutions (FHS) leads the biomedical and radiation detection markets with innovative products and services that help keep customers, patients, and clients safe. Fluke Biomedical leads the world in manufacturing biomedical test equipment like defibrillator analyzers and digital pressure meters. LANDAUER measures radiation exposure with dosimeter and radiation monitoring badges. RaySafe is the worldwide leader of X-ray test equipment, real-time staff dosimetry, and radiation survey meters. And Victoreen instruments are the trusted source for radiation monitoring systems and quality assurance for nuclear power professionals. At FHS, we believe in your potential — your ability to learn, grow and contribute in meaningful ways. And we believe in giving you the opportunity, accountability, and visibility to do just that.We Are an Equal Opportunity Employer. Fortive Corporation and all Fortive Companies are proud to be equal opportunity employers. We value and encourage diversity and solicit applications from all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, marital status, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or other characteristics protected by law. Fortive and all Fortive Companies are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities. Individuals who need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment application process, please contact us at applyassistance@fortive.com.
The salary range for this position (in local currency) is 114,100.00 - 190,500.00At 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
Fortive Corporation Overview
Fortive's essential technology makes the world safer and more productive. We accelerate transformation in high-impact fields like workplace safety, build environments, and healthcare.
We are a global industrial technology innovator with a startup spirit. Our forward-looking companies lead the way in healthcare sterilization, industrial safety, predictive maintenance, and other mission-critical solutions. We're a force for progress, working alongside our customers and partners to solve challenges on a global scale, from workplace safety in the most demanding conditions to advanced technologies that help providers focus on exceptional patient care.
We are a diverse team 10,000 strong, united by a dynamic, inclusive culture and energized by limitless learning and growth. We use the proven Fortive Business System (FBS) to accelerate our positive impact.
At Fortive, we believe in you. We believe in your potential—your ability to learn, grow, and make a difference.
At Fortive, we believe in us. We believe in the power of people working together to solve problems no one could solve alone.
At Fortive, we believe in growth. We're honest about what's working and what isn't, and we never stop improving and innovating.
Fortive: For you, for us, for growth.
About Fluke Health Solutions
Comprised of four industry leaders—Fluke Biomedical, LANDAUER, RaySafe, and Victoreen — Fluke Health Solutions (FHS) leads the biomedical and radiation detection markets with innovative products and services that help keep customers, patients, and clients safe. Fluke Biomedical leads the world in manufacturing biomedical test equipment like defibrillator analyzers and digital pressure meters. LANDAUER measures radiation exposure with dosimeter and radiation monitoring badges. RaySafe is the worldwide leader of X-ray test equipment, real-time staff dosimetry, and radiation survey meters. And Victoreen instruments are the trusted source for radiation monitoring systems and quality assurance for nuclear power professionals. At FHS, we believe in your potential — your ability to learn, grow and contribute in meaningful ways. And we believe in giving you the opportunity, accountability, and visibility to do just that.
We Are an Equal Opportunity Employer. Fortive Corporation and all Fortive Companies are proud to be equal opportunity employers. We value and encourage diversity and solicit applications from all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, marital status, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or other characteristics protected by law. Fortive and all Fortive Companies are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities. Individuals who need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment application process, please contact us at applyassistance@fortive.com.
Pay Range
The salary range for this position (in local currency) is 114,100.00 - 190,500.00.
Base pay offered may vary depending on various factors, including, but not limited to: job-related knowledge; skills; experience; and other eligibility factors such as geographic location. The Total Rewards package includes competitive base pay and an opportunity to enroll in a variety of benefit programs, generally including health insurance, flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts, retirement savings plans, life and disability insurance programs, and several programs that provide for both paid and unpaid time away from work.
Comprised of four industry leaders—Fluke Biomedical, LANDAUER, RaySafe, and Victoreen — Fluke Health Solutions (FHS) leads the biomedical and radiation detection markets with innovative products and services that help keep customers, patients, and clients safe. Fluke Biomedical leads the world in manufacturing biomedical test equipment like defibrillator analyzers and digital pressure meters. LANDAUER measures radiation exposure with dosimeter and radiation monitoring badges. RaySafe is the worldwide leader of X-ray test equipment, real-time staff dosimetry, and radiation survey meters. And Victoreen instruments are the trusted source for radiation monitoring systems and quality assurance for nuclear power professionals. At FHS, we believe in your potential — your ability to learn, grow and contribute in meaningful ways. And we believe in giving you the opportunity, accountability, and visibility to do just that.We Are an Equal Opportunity Employer. Fortive Corporation and all Fortive Companies are proud to be equal opportunity employers. We value and encourage diversity and solicit applications from all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, marital status, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or other characteristics protected by law. Fortive and all Fortive Companies are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities. Individuals who need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment application process, please contact us at applyassistance@fortive.com.
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Who's Hiring
Top Industries Hiring
- Insurance
- Technology & Software
- Medical Devices
- Fashion & Apparel
- Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in product planning specialist jobs.
- Bachelor's degree in supply chain, business, engineering, or a related field
- Experience with demand planning or S&OP processes in a manufacturing or consumer goods environment
- Proficiency in ERP systems such as SAP, Oracle, or similar platforms
- Ability to analyze sales data and inventory metrics to develop accurate product forecasts
- Strong cross-functional collaboration with engineering, sales, and operations teams
- Familiarity with stage-gate new product introduction processes and product lifecycle management
Tips for Your Product Planning Specialist Job Search
Tailor your resume to NPI workflows
Hiring managers for product planning specialist roles want to see new product introduction experience spelled out explicitly. Mention stage-gate processes, cross-functional alignment, and launch timelines by name, not just vague project management language.
Highlight forecasting tools you've used
Many listings filter candidates on specific tools like SAP IBP, Oracle Demantra, or advanced Excel models. Name every demand planning or inventory optimization tool you've worked with and pair each one with a concrete outcome, like a reduction in stockout rate.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists product planning specialist openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Target companies by product lifecycle stage
A startup launching its first SKU and a mature manufacturer managing hundreds of product lines need very different skills. Filter openings by industry maturity and read the job description closely to confirm whether the role is weighted toward launch, sustaining, or end-of-life planning.
Prepare a scenario answer on supply disruptions
Interviewers frequently ask how you've responded to component shortages or lead-time changes. Write out a specific example in advance using the situation, action, and result structure, with actual decisions you made and what changed as a result.
Negotiate by anchoring to market complexity
Product planning specialists who manage larger SKU counts or coordinate across more suppliers typically command higher offers. When negotiating, name the scope you've managed, like number of SKUs or supplier relationships, to anchor your ask in tangible complexity.
Product Planning Specialist Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most product planning specialists?
Meta, Stellantis, and Ralph Lauren are hiring the most product planning specialists right now, with openings concentrated in California, Massachusetts, and New York, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Demand tends to be highest in companies managing large SKU catalogs or going through new product launches.
How many product planning specialist jobs are remote?
About 92% of product planning specialist openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, though on-site roles are common at manufacturers where proximity to operations or warehouse teams is part of the job. Demand forecasting and lifecycle management sub-areas tend to offer the most remote flexibility compared to roles tied to physical production planning.
How do you become a product planning specialist?
Start with a degree in supply chain management, business, industrial engineering, or operations, then build hands-on experience in demand planning, inventory control, or new product introduction. Getting comfortable with ERP systems and S&OP processes early is essential. Many practitioners move into the role from adjacent positions in procurement, inventory management, or operations analysis as they take on more forecasting and launch coordination responsibilities.
How do you get a product planning specialist job with little experience?
Focus on roles with titles like junior product planner, demand planning analyst, or supply chain coordinator, which are common entry points into the product planning specialty. Build your case around any coursework in forecasting or inventory management, proficiency in Excel or ERP platforms, and any project where you coordinated timelines across multiple teams. Internships in supply chain or operations at consumer goods, automotive, or electronics companies translate directly and are often highlighted in entry-level listings.
What does the product planning specialist interview process look like?
Most processes run through an initial recruiter screen focused on your background and tool familiarity, followed by a technical or case-style interview where you walk through a forecasting scenario or a product launch coordination challenge. A final round typically involves a panel with cross-functional stakeholders from supply chain, marketing, or operations. Expect to explain how you've handled demand variability, tight launch timelines, or cross-team misalignment in past roles.
Where can I find and apply to product planning specialist jobs?
You can find and apply to product planning specialist jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from companies across the United States. Search for roles that match your level and specialization, whether that's demand forecasting, new product introduction, or lifecycle management, and apply directly to each listing that fits your background.
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