Job Description
Primary Function of Position:
The Project Manager, Product Launch & Market Readiness will drive the integrated planning, coordination, and execution of product launches and key portfolio initiatives across Europe. Working closely with Product Marketing, European functions, country teams, and Global product teams, this role will translate agreed launch and commercialization strategies into actionable European readiness plans, connect cross-functional workstreams, proactively identify and help remove execution barriers, manage dependencies and risks, and provide clear execution visibility.
Product Marketing owns portfolio and commercialization strategy, positioning, value proposition, customer segmentation, go-to-market strategy, and business outcomes. The Project Manager owns the integrated launch plan, cross-functional coordination, governance, risk management, and execution visibility, while functional partners remain accountable for their respective decisions and deliverables.
Roles and Responsibilities:
- Drive integrated planning and execution of European product launches, establishing clear milestones, deliverables, dependencies, owners, and decision points, and maintaining momentum across interconnected workstreams.
- Translate agreed launch and commercialization strategies into actionable European market-readiness plans.
- Coordinate launch activities across Product Marketing, Commercial, Regulatory, Training, Customer Support, Finance, Supply Planning, Technical Publications, and other relevant functions.
- Drive market readiness across European launches, proactively identifying barriers, risks and dependencies and driving their mitigation, resolution or escalation. Facilitate cross-functional launch reviews, ensuring clear decisions, actions, ownership, and follow-through.
- Act as a key coordination point between European and Global teams, maintaining alignment on launch plans, requirements, timelines, and decisions.
- Facilitate the structured collection and consolidation of European market requirements and execution needs, partnering with Product Marketing and functional owners to ensure the European perspective is represented in Global planning.
- Provide concise, decision-oriented visibility of launch progress, readiness, risks, dependencies, and potential accelerators to stakeholders and leadership. Coordinate post-launch reviews, capture lessons learned, and improve launch planning, governance, and ways of working across Europe.
- Support strategic portfolio initiatives requiring significant cross-functional coordination.
Qualifications
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Experience:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in business, project management, marketing, healthcare, engineering, or a related discipline.
- At least 5 years of relevant experience in project management, product launches, commercialization, market readiness, or a similarly complex cross-functional environment.
- Experience leading complex projects in a matrixed and international organization.
- Demonstrated ability to influence stakeholders and drive execution without direct authority.
- Strong project planning, dependency management, risk management, problem-solving, and organizational skills.
- Ability to translate business strategies into structured and actionable execution plans while maintaining clear functional ownership.
- Excellent written communication, and presentation skills in English.
- Ability to operate independently, manage ambiguity, and maintain momentum across multiple interconnected workstreams.
- Experience working across European and Global teams strongly preferred.
- Experience in medical devices, healthcare, technology preferred.
- Strong knowledge of the Microsoft Office product suite.
- Ability to work with AI tools to increase efficiency.
- The job holder should be based in Aubonne, Switzerland.
- Ability to travel up to 40%.
Additional Information
Intuitive is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. We provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants and employees, and prohibit discrimination and harassment of any type, without regard to race, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, color, age, religion, protected veteran or disability status, genetic information or any other status protected under federal, state, or local applicable laws.
We will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in accordance with fair chance laws.
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who are nationals from countries currently on embargo or sanctions status.
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This position may be filled at a different job level than listed here depending on
business need and/or on the selected candidate’s experience, knowledge and skills.
Compensation will be based primarily on the job level at which the role is filled and the
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Company Description
At Intuitive, we are united behind our mission: we believe that minimally invasive care is life-enhancing care. Through ingenuity and intelligent technology, we expand the potential of physicians to heal without constraints.
As a pioneer and market leader in robotic-assisted surgery, we strive to foster an inclusive and diverse team, committed to making a difference. For more than 25 years, we have worked with hospitals and care teams around the world to help solve some of healthcare’s hardest challenges and advance what is possible.
Intuitive has been built by the efforts of great people from diverse backgrounds. We believe great ideas can come from anywhere—we strive to foster an inclusive culture built around diversity of thought and mutual respect. We lead with inclusion and empower our team members to do their best work as their most authentic selves.
Passionate people who want to make a difference drive our culture—our team members are grounded in integrity, have a strong capacity to learn, the energy to get things done, and bring diverse, real-world experiences to help us think in new ways. We actively invest in our team members to support their long-term growth so they can continue to advance our mission and achieve their highest potential.
Join a team committed to taking big leaps forward for a global community of healthcare professionals and their patients. Together, let’s advance the world of minimally invasive care.
