Job Summary

The healthcare landscape is changing and our customers are looking to us for solutions. Through Medline's Product Management MBA Leadership Track Internship, you will learn the role of Product Management with the goal of ultimately developing into a full-time leadership position, responsible for owning and driving growth of your product categories. The summer internship involves training, project work, networking and collaboration to prepare you for a leadership role over a product team within one of Medline's 20+ Product Divisions. You will collaborate with business units across the organization including Sales, Marketing, Supply Chain, Quality and Finance along with external vendors. We offer tremendous opportunities for career growth to individuals who thrive in a fast paced environment, have an entrepreneurial mindset, and want to be highly rewarded for their contributions.

With 50+ years of consecutive growth, Medline has more than 36,000 employees worldwide and business in more than 125 countries. Recently named one of the nation's "Best and Brightest Companies to Work for," Medline has a state-of-the-art headquarters in Northfield, IL, just north of Chicago along with a beautiful city office at the Merchandise Mart downtown. To maintain this enviable position and continue our growth, we are looking for new talent and leaders, like you!

Job Description

Product Management Responsibilities:

Negotiate pricing with vendors for raw materials and finished goods. Visit vendors to develop products and train personnel in all aspects of each product and usages. Coordinate materials with vendors and develop finished custom items.
Implement marketing plans and promotional programs for existing products to include product strategy development, pricing strategy, collateral creation and brand management
Offer solutions for detrimental sales or cost trends. Analyze sales trends over time and impact of competitive strategies. Support forecasts and budgets with appropriately detailed marketing plans.
Work with Product Teams, Manufacturing, Purchasing, and Engineering to reduce Cost of Goods by assessing packaging, alternate materials, new sources of material, stocking, make to order, direct to customer shipments, etc. Manage inventory by focusing on eliminating surplus and optimizing SKU count.
Develop and deliver training materials for internal stakeholders, sales forces and customers. Create sales tools.
Conduct effective market research and translate that research into new products, product improvements, or line extensions by providing leadership to a multi-functional team.
Travel with sales force to support efforts to convert customers to purchase Medline products. Provide timely follow up to sales forces by answering product questions via e-mail and phone.

Qualifications:

Pursuing MBA degree
3+ years of professional experience in marketing, sales, product management or clinical practice in the healthcare industry preferred
Experience managing people preferred
Experience collecting and analyzing financial data.
Experience negotiating with outside vendors, including negotiating contracts, prices, resolving service issues and reconciling differences.
Ability to establish and maintain relationships with individuals at all levels of the organization, in the business community & with vendors.
Demonstrated ability to present to senior management with the purpose of influencing company or client decisions.
Experience presenting to and coordinating senior level meetings, including preparation of agendas, documenting meeting minutes, sending out documents to attendees.
Position requires travel up to 50% of the time for business purposes (within state and out of state).

Benefits - Medline is committed to offering competitive benefits and a variety of choices to best meet the needs of you and your family. For employees scheduled to work at least 30 hours per week, this includes health and well-being, financial fitness, career development, paid time off and more. Employees scheduled to work less than 30 hours per week can participate in the 401(k) plan, access the Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Employee Resource Groups (ERG) and Medline Service Corps. For a more comprehensive list of our benefits, please click here.

Every day, we're focused on building a more diverse and inclusive company, one that recognizes, values and respects the differences we all bring to the workplace. From doing what's right to delivering business results, together, we're better. Explore our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion page here.

Medline Industries, LP is an equal opportunity employer. Medline evaluates qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, disability/handicap status or any other legally protected characteristic.