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Leah Litvak

Naples,FL

Summary

Results-driven product manager with 12+ years experience in the medical device industry and 9+ years in upstream and downstream product management. Skilled at identifying market needs and executing product strategies to bring products and critical improvements to market using evidence-based decision making and user inputs.

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior Product Manager

Corza Ophthalmology
04.2022 - Current
  • Lead transition of branding efforts to one overarching brand standards
  • Manage the launch a new line of microsurgical knives with improved safety mechanism, expected Y1 revenue $1M
  • Manage and relaunch an existing line of ophthalmic surgical suture product with new additions based on market needs, expected Y1 revenue $3M
  • Implement product roadmaps, ensuring alignment with company goals and stakeholder expectations
  • Developed marketing plans and strategy to promote specific products to target demographics.
  • Develop sales training materials for new and existing product lines, including brochures, sell sheets, videos, social media messaging, and digital advertisements

Senior Product Manager

Skeletal Dynamics
03.2020 - 01.2022
  • First and only product manager for the company and responsible for product lifecycle management (upstream and downstream) for all product lines, including planning for eight new product line launches
  • Overhaul Go-To-Market strategy for improved product development and support
  • Implement completely new project planning process for product development activities
  • Launched four new product lines in orthopedic trauma and reconstructive surgery with an additional three product lines scheduled to launch in 3-6 months post-departure
  • Train key surgeons and distributors on safe and effective use of the new products
  • Overhaul product validation process and implement for new product development and product management, including management of physician users
  • Create and manage marketing material for all new product lines, including surgical technique guides, sales playbooks, sales sheets, and other product support documents
  • Support field activity including cadaver lab training, sales training, and physician training
  • Liaised with global sales and marketing teams to collect customer feedback, incorporating into subsequent production runs and development lifecycles
  • Created product positioning strategies designed to achieve optimal market penetration

Technical Marketing Manager

Amniox Medical (now BioTissue)
02.2019 - 03.2020
  • Responsible for all professional education and physician management activity, including downstream marketing material with technical documents
  • Coordinated educational meetings and key physician activity for events of all sizes
  • Managed approximately 50 physicians across different medical specials including orthopedics, sports medicine, wound care, urology, general surgery, plastic surgery, and vascular medicine
  • Management included discovering and contracting new physicians, managing current physician contracting and payment for activity, and relationship growth and development
  • Distilled clinical literature into marketing materials
  • Planned, developed and recorded over twenty professional educational webinars
  • Drive marketing strategy planning for Amniox business arm
  • Identified and leveraged key proof points within customer success stories to improve product positioning
  • Crafted messaging to differentiate products from competition and substitutes
  • Recipient of Fast Start award for seamlessly acclimating to the role

Product Manager

Arthrex, Inc.
01.2015 - 02.2019
  • Supported a new and growing product line and subsequently promoted to manage both upstream and downstream marketing functions
  • Responsible for one major product launch and six smaller product launches while concurrently supporting additional product development
  • Manage electromechanical orthopedic resection devices and associated accessories (about 120 SKUs)
  • Responsible for all North America training related to product line, including newly hired sales representatives (80 students every 6 weeks), medical education, sales managers, and peers
  • Responsible for global Go-To-Market plan of new products and state-of-the-market reports biannually, including market analysis, budgeting, and forecasting
  • Responsible for marketing material including printed collateral, videos, agreements, and promotions
  • Created specialized sales team for product line to increase sales 25% over previous fiscal year

Manufacturing Engineer

Arthrex Manufacturing, Inc.
06.2012 - 12.2014

Optimize manfacturing processes for orthopedic plates and screws

Product Development Engineer Co-op

Biomet Orthopedics
01.2011 - 10.2011

Hip Arthroplasty Instrumentation, Limb Salvage & Patient Matched Implants

Education

BS Mechanical Engineering - Bioengineering Concentration -

Kettering University

Skills

  • Brand Building
  • Marketing Strategy Development
  • KOL Management and Development
  • Microsoft Office
  • Project Management - Trello, Playbook, MS Project, SmartSheet
  • Photoshop Elements
  • Salesforce, PowerBI
  • Computer-aided drafting and modeling (Solidworks, NX5-9)
  • Certified Solidworks Professional - Core
  • Finite Elemental Analysis (ANSYS, NX7-8)
  • Minitab/Statistical analysis
  • Certified Solidworks Professional - Core
  • Finite Elemental Analysis (ANSYS, NX7-8)
  • Minitab/Statistical analysis

Certification

King's College Product Management Career Accelerator

Estimated Completion: August 2024

Timeline

Senior Product Manager

Corza Ophthalmology
04.2022 - Current

Senior Product Manager

Skeletal Dynamics
03.2020 - 01.2022

Technical Marketing Manager

Amniox Medical (now BioTissue)
02.2019 - 03.2020

Product Manager

Arthrex, Inc.
01.2015 - 02.2019

Manufacturing Engineer

Arthrex Manufacturing, Inc.
06.2012 - 12.2014

Product Development Engineer Co-op

Biomet Orthopedics
01.2011 - 10.2011

BS Mechanical Engineering - Bioengineering Concentration -

Kettering University
Leah Litvak