Upstream Marketing Director, FEI (m/f/x)*

Upstream Marketing Director, FEI (m/f/x)

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Thank you for your interest in joining Solventum. Solventum is a new healthcare company with a long legacy of solving big challenges that improve lives and help healthcare professionals perform at their best. At Solventum, people are at the heart of every innovation we pursue. Guided by empathy, insight, and clinical intelligence, we collaborate with the best minds in healthcare to address our customers’ toughest challenges. While we continue updating the Solventum Careers Page and applicant materials, some documents may still reflect legacy branding. Please note that all listed roles are Solventum positions, and our Privacy Policy applies to any personal information you submit. As it was with 3M, at Solventum all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

Job Description

3M Health Care is now Solventum. At Solventum, we enable better, smarter, safer healthcare to improve lives. As a new company with a long legacy of creating breakthrough solutions for our customers’ toughest challenges, we pioneer game-changing innovations at the intersection of health, material and data science that change patients' lives for the better while enabling healthcare professionals to perform at their best. Because people, and their wellbeing, are at the heart of every scientific advancement we pursue.

The Impact You’ll Make in this Role

Responsibilities

• Lead the development of the long-range innovation roadmap, identifying where the franchise can expand through solving unmet customer needs, innovative technologies, adjacent market categories, or new business models.
• Partner with Upstream leadership to align opportunity areas with franchise strategic and financial goals.
• Partner with the Upstream Marketing Director to transition qualified opportunities into structured new product initiatives (NPIs).
• Maintain an integrated view of opportunity creation versus concept execution.
• Serve as a key member of the Global Upstream leadership team.
• Drive structured innovation processes with cross‑functional early innovation working teams (e.g., design thinking, jobs‑to‑be‑done, ethnography) to identify meaningful customer and clinical unmet needs.
• Synthesize insights from customers, markets, and technologies into opportunity maps and need statements that guide ideation and feasibility work.
• Partner with R&D, Medical Affairs, and Finance to assess early technical, clinical, and financial feasibility and innovation readiness for a pipeline of opportunities.
• Partner with Senior Strategic Marketing Manager to evaluate whether certain opportunities may be better served through a Buy/Partner strategy.
• Define and manage the FEI process, ensuring clarity of roles, decision gates, and progression criteria for early opportunities.
• Establish criteria for advancing early concepts into the Upstream Marketing pipeline.
• Present opportunity maps and early innovation concepts to leadership to inform resource allocation and Build strategic direction.
• Establish and maintain a balanced portfolio of early‑stage initiatives, from horizon scanning to concept incubation.

Your Skills And Expertise

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Marketing, Business Management, or a related field AND profound progressive experience in front‑end innovation, upstream marketing, and/or innovation strategy roles.
• Proven ability to translate ambiguous opportunity spaces into clear, prioritized innovation strategies.
• Deep expertise in structured innovation processes (e.g., design thinking, ethnography).
• Exceptional strategic thinking, analytical ability, and financial acumen.
• Strong collaboration and influencing skills, particularly in cross‑functional, matrixed organizations.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, executive presence, and storytelling ability; with experience presenting to C‑level executives.

Additional Qualifications That Could Help You Succeed Even Further

• Advanced marketing and/or clinical degree (e.g., MBA, RN, MD, or related field).
• Experience in healthcare, medical devices, or other regulated industries.
• Knowledge of the advanced wound care market, including negative pressure wound therapies.
• Ability to thrive in an action‑oriented and high accountability environment.

Work location

Remote

Travel

30% domestic and international

Relocation Assistance

Not authorized

Legal Authorization

Must be legally authorized to work in the country of employment without sponsorship for employment visa status.

Supporting Your Well‑being

Solventum offers many programs to help you live your best life – both physically and financially. To ensure competitive pay and benefits, Solventum regularly benchmarks with other companies that are comparable in size and scope.

Diversity & Inclusion

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, civil status, disability, family status, or membership of the travelling community.

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Application Requirements

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