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About Us
Össur is a leading global provider of innovative mobility solutions that help people live a Life Without Limitations®. Significant ongoing investment in research and development has led to over 2,100 patents, award-winning designs, and successful clinical outcomes.
Össur is focused on improving people’s mobility through the delivery of Prosthetics and Bracing & Supports solutions. Helping people live a Life Without Limitations is why we exist as a company.
About the Role
The Bracing Platform Director will serve as a senior leader and architect of Össur’s long-term bracing portfolio vision. This executive role holds full accountability for defining, leading, and delivering the global bracing platform strategy and ensuring the business is positioned for sustainable growth, market leadership, and competitive differentiation. As a core member of the Strategic Marketing leadership team, this individual will shape the future of the Bracing division by driving bold innovation, market-driven strategy, and enterprise-wide alignment.
Reporting directly to the Vice President of Global Marketing, this role will provide executive leadership to the Global Product Management and Market Analytics functions, serving as a visible champion of portfolio excellence, organizational development, and customer-centric innovation.
What You’ll Do
Strategic & Enterprise Leadership
Own the creation, alignment, and execution of the global Bracing platform strategy, balancing financial performance, and commercial advantage.
Define multi-year portfolio roadmaps that secure market leadership and fuel profitable growth.
Provide partnership to the leadership team by delivering forward-looking insights and recommendations on global bracing market dynamics.
Shape M&A, licensing, and development strategies to expand the bracing portfolio and accelerate Össur’s market position.
Portfolio Excellence & Market Impact
Drive portfolio lifecycle management, ensuring disciplined investment prioritization and optimal allocation of resources.
Lead the development of business cases and stage-gate decisions, aligning product platforms with evolving market needs and customer expectations.
Ensure differentiation in Össur’s bracing platforms by embedding quality, sustainability, and customer experience as core value drivers.
Champion global go-to-market excellence, ensuring seamless commercial readiness, consistent brand positioning, and measurable impact.
Cross-Functional Influence & Execution
Act as the primary strategic link between Marketing, R&D, Operations, Supply Chain, Finance, and Commercial organizations.
Build alignment across regions to ensure global strategies are locally relevant and executable.
Anticipate and resolve complex cross-functional challenges, balancing speed, risk, and long-term value creation.
Foster collaboration that elevates quality, efficiency, and profitable growth across the product lifecycle.
Organizational & Team Leadership
Provide visionary leadership to the Global Product Management and Market Analytics teams, setting a high bar for accountability, and execution.
Attract, develop, and retain talent capable of scaling with the organization’s ambitions.
Build a culture of strategic agility, data-driven decision making, and entrepreneurial problem solving.
Empower teams to operate with autonomy while delivering against objectives.
Market Thought Leadership
Serve as Össur’s global authority on the bracing market, influencing both internal strategy and external perception.
Who You Are
Qualifications & Experience
10+ years of progressive leadership in medical devices or healthcare, with direct experience in portfolio strategy, upstream marketing, and global product management.
Demonstrated success in leading cross-functional teams, influencing at the executive level, and delivering results in complex, matrixed environments.
Deep understanding of healthcare market dynamics, payer/reimbursement landscapes, and clinical evidence requirements.
Proven ability to translate insights into strategy, strategy into execution, and execution into measurable business growth.
Inspirational people leader with a track record of building high-performance global teams.
Strong financial and business acumen, with experience in P&L ownership or direct portfolio investment decision making.
Core Values
This leader will embody and amplify Össur’s values of Honesty, Frugality, and Courage, ensuring these principles shape decision making, leadership style, and organizational culture at every level.
Why You’ll Feel Good Working Here
Join our team if you want to make a lasting impact; we will support you along the way.
We value a diverse working environment and a welcoming and fun company culture
We empower our colleagues and encourage close collaboration, allowing us to develop the best products and maintain the highest possible standards of care
Competitive Compensation Packages
Medical, Dental, and Vision Benefits
401(k) Retirement Plan with employer matching contribution
9 paid holidays
13 vacation days, birthday and two (2) volunteer day
8 sick days within your first year of employment
Paid Parental Bonding
Physical Requirements:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to sit. The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; and reach with hands and arms. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, and ability to adjust focus.
Expected travel 15% of the time.
The US base salary range for this full-time position is $135,954 - $174,492 + bonus + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.
Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits.
Össur is a leading global provider of prosthetics and bracing and supports solutions.
Embla Medical is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit. We want to have the best available individual in every job.
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