About Aerogen:

Headquartered in the vibrant city of Galway, Ireland, with offices around the world, Aerogen is proud to be the world leader in acute care aerosol drug delivery. Recognised through multiple MedTech awards and ten-time winner of the Zenith award for Respiratory Care Excellence in North America, collectively our employees make a difference to patients’ lives every day, having already reached 20 million patients in over 80 countries.

Our talented and skilled team collaborate to innovate, challenge and test not only in relation to our products but every facet of how we work. We lead the way, finding innovative solutions to even the most complex problems, all in the name of delivering better patient care.

Our business is growing rapidly across the globe and as we grow, our core culture of “We Care” universally connects us. We believe that your ambition and integrity fuels ours and we are committed to supporting our employees to reach their full potential through tangible investment in their careers. Join us as we continue to #discoverbetter.

​What is the role? 

​This role will help lead the commercial launch of our novel hospital to home solution and drive the downstream marketing initiatives from inception to launch to product management. Specifically, this individual will play a critical role in driving the commercial success of our medical device products within a dynamic market. This position is responsible for developing and executing strategic marketing initiatives and programs that directly support sales growth, enhance brand positioning, and build strong relationships with healthcare professionals (HCPs) and key opinion leaders (KOLs).

​This individual will report to the Director of Aerogen Go, North America. They will work in strong partnership with sales leadership, operations, global cross-functional partners and third-party vendors and consultants. This is a key role in Aerogen’s strategic growth over the next five (5) years with broader and deeper penetration of segments as well as commercial growth in one of our largest markets. This role requires a proactive and results-oriented individual with a deep understanding of the home care segment, strong analytical skills, and proven experience in building and executing effective marketing strategies. This is an opportunity for an experienced marketing professional to make a significant impact on advancing healthcare and improving patient outcomes through strategic and effective downstream marketing initiatives.

What are the key responsibilities?

• Lead the successful commercialization of AerogenGO by developing a comprehensive launch plan, including positioning, messaging, segmentation, targeting strategies and a compelling value proposition.

• Marketing Plan Creation: Develop and execute an impactful marketing plan that drives product demand, increases market share, and strengthens brand loyalty.

• Partner closely with Aerogen GO business development executives to understand market needs, gather customer insights, and provide them with compelling sales tools, training resources, and messaging to effectively communicate product value.

• New Product Launches: Lead cross-functional partners to execute future North America launches in the hospital to home and non-acute market segments. Develop launch plans for new product launches. Work with upstream cross functional teams to represent US business needs. Prepare all launch materials for new launches and work with communications manager to create multi-channel launch campaigns that fuel demand generation efforts.

• Cultivate strong relationships with KOLs and HCPs to gather market intelligence, foster advocacy, and shape clinical and market adoption (demand generation).

• New market segment expansion: Work with the Director and Global Marketing to explore new market expansion opportunities in non-acute and acute settings. Define North America market size and growth rate for each segment. Lead deep dive customer interviews to understand market segments and help determine how best to capture the new segments.

• Competitive Intelligence: Define process for capturing competitive intel with Global Marketing. Create cadence for sharing this information with upper management team and the field team. Complete continuous analysis of competitive environment and consumer trends; communicate trends and learning to stakeholders and provide strategic recommendations as appropriate.

• Global Marketing Collaboration: Work closely with Global Marketing team to represent the US and Canada businesses and communicate the specific needs of the team for future product enhancements and form factors.

• Product Management: Support lifecycle management and pricing strategy. Provide guidance on tools that will increase acceptance and adoption of the Aerogen solution. Evaluate the impact of marketing activities and tactics in achieving stated objectives and optimize campaigns in market in real time.

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What education and experience are required?

• Bachelor’s degree required, MBA preferred

• 7+ years in Medical Device Marketing/Product Management or related work experience required

• 5+ years in medical respiratory devices and/or DME segments preferred

• Previous work experience in a similar role in MedTech is strongly preferred

• Marketing, Business or related field degree/experience preferred

• Experience working with patient e-commerce devices preferred

• Sales Experience preferred

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What key skills will make you great at the role?

• Demonstrated leadership in leading and working on cross-functional teams

• Must be energetic, self-motivated, detail-oriented, creative, strategic, and highly accountable

• Must have excellent communication – written and oral, and strong analytical skills

• Ability to work independently in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment, prioritize assignments and multi-task

• Proven experience in creating a strategic work plan and executing programs to achieve specific goals

• Experienced in working cross-functionally with people with diverse backgrounds

• Hands-on experience with project management and budgeting

• Able to stay organized, operate independently with high quality and attention to detail

• Environmental Conditions: Typical office environments, with work also performed in hospital clinical environment

• Location : Chicago

• Ability to travel ~40% of the time

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What is it like to work at Aerogen?

Our purpose is to transform patient lives and our ethos is to #discoverbetter. This also translates to how we look after our people. We want talented, passionate and engaged people to join Aerogen and build your career with us. We understand that your life evolves through different stages, and we are here to support our global team with a range of financial and non-financial rewards and benefits. There’s something for everyone! Here is an idea of what we offer:

• Excellent medical care.

• Bonus & Pension. 

• ‘Aerogen Connect’ – our employee led programme which supports our global teams to unite and have fun.

• We pledge 1% of profits and time to charities and organisations.

Aerogen is committed to promoting diversity, inclusion and equality in the workplace. If you have any difficulty using our application process, please contact us by emailing careers@aerogen.com. Please include your name and preferred method of contact.