Change is everywhere at Convatec . It’s transforming our business, and helping us improve millions of lives. And we’re nowhere near finished. Across every part of our business, we’re pushing for better.
Join us on our journey to #ForeverCaring as a Director of Marketing - Advanced Wound Care Pipeline, and you’ll do the same.
Job Summary:
We are seeking a visionary and commercially astute Global Marketing Director to drive the future of Advanced Wound Care innovation. This is a strategic leadership role with a clear mandate: to shape and deliver the next wave of pipeline innovation – beyond current pipeline – and ensure global commercial success through launch and scale.
The role is critical to delivering double-digit growth by identifying and capitalising on unmet clinical needs in key wound care categories: exudate management, infection/biofilm control, wound prevention, wound biologics, and surgical site complications.
The ideal candidate will bring gravitas, the ability to operate and influence at C-suite level, and a proven track record of leading complex, high-impact programmes across global, matrixed organisations.
Key Responsibilities:
Strategic Innovation Leadership
Own the global marketing strategy for new innovations across the advanced wound care landscape, including technologies not yet in the current pipeline.
Serve as the strategic marketing lead on innovation steering groups, representing the commercial voice from ideation to execution.
Identify emerging needs and white spaces to shape the innovation roadmap, ensuring alignment with global growth ambitions.
Executive-Level Communication and Influence
Present pipeline strategies, business cases, and innovation opportunities to C-suite and Board-level stakeholders with confidence and clarity.
Build consensus and alignment across executive leadership on marketing priorities, timelines, and investments.
Act as a trusted advisor and thought leader in all commercial discussions related to wound care innovation.
Programme Leadership and Matrix Delivery
Lead complex, multi-market programme launches, ensuring readiness across clinical, regulatory, manufacturing, and commercial teams.
Drive cross-functional collaboration and accountability across a matrixed global organisation, fostering high performance and clarity of execution.
Monitor KPIs and milestones, ensuring projects are delivered on time, on budget, and to strategic objectives.
Market Development and Insight
Identify and validate global market trends, unmet needs, and opportunity spaces in wound care.
Conduct rigorous global market assessment to shape value propositions, positioning, and segmentation.
Champion voice-of-customer insight integration throughout the development cycle.
Develop launch forecasts, business cases, commercialisation plans, and risk mitigation strategies.
Pipeline Commercialisation
Drive launch excellence for new products globally – incl pre-launch planning, messaging, positioning, and competitive readiness.
Coordinate with regional partners to ensure a flawless alignment between Local markets needs and the innovation roadmap.
Serve as the commercial voice within cross-functional development teams to ensure pipeline relevance and market fit.
Collaborate with regulatory, clinical, and R&D teams to align marketing strategy with product timelines.
Champion Launch Excellence Process globally.
Build strong Global Marketing and Launch plans and coordinate the Local marketing plans.
Build marketing toolkits globally for local deployment, in coordination with the Digital Marcom team.
Establish, maintain, and manage effective interaction and relationships with outside agencies and vendors.
Develop field execution tools and sales aids that help sales representatives effectively deliver the appropriate innovation messages.
Develop and execute sales training materials to enable superior field execution and delivery of innovation value messages.
Consolidate the local market needs for competitive rebuttal, and commercial/incremental innovation.
Stakeholder Engagement
Align with regional marketing and sales leaders to ensure consistent execution and adaptability of global strategies.
Build strong relationships with KOLs, advocacy groups, and strategic partners to amplify market readiness.
People leadership and Budget Management
Manage matrixed resources as needed and leverage regional resources to scale efforts globally.
Oversee budget planning and ROI tracking for all marketing programmes under pipeline delivery.
Required Qualifications and Experience:
Extensive experience in global marketing within MedTech, wound care, or adjacent healthcare sectors.
Masters degree required; advanced degree (MBA, MPH, or life sciences) strongly preferred.
Demonstrated success leading global product launches.
Significant experience delivering through a matrix in a multinational environment, aligning diverse stakeholders to common goals.
Exceptional executive presence with the ability to influence and collaborate with C-suite and senior leadership.
Commercial acumen and scientific literacy to translate complex innovation into customer-relevant strategies.
Strong business case development, scenario planning, and strategic insight capability.
Proven track record in advanced wound care incl biologics and new technologies.
Previous experience in hospital complex sale process.
Previous experience in community channel sale process.
Preferred Skills and Attributes:
Bold thinker with a pragmatic, delivery-focused mindset.
Strategic vision, analytical skills, and big picture thinking.
High emotional intelligence and stakeholder navigation skills.
Team player mindset – Collaborative and engaging approach.
Comfortable with ambiguity, risk, and driving change in fast-evolving environments.
Passionate about transforming patient outcomes and leading industry-defining innovation.
Travel Requirements
Position may involve travel, up to 20% of the time, within the UK / Europe and overseas. Most trips will include overnight travel.
Working Conditions
Preferred Hybrid working.
Our ambitions will bring the very best out in you. You’ll be pushed to aim higher and really own your work. You’ll be encouraged and supported to make things happen, too. It can be challenging. But, as the progress you make will help improve the lives of millions, it’ll be worth it.
This is stepping up to a challenge.
This is work that’ll move you.
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