Senior Product Manager, CE Instruments

Work Schedule

Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions

Office

Job Description

As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team youll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier cleaner and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the worlds toughest challenges like protecting the environment making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer.

DESCRIPTION:

The Senior Product Manager CE Instruments will lead the strategy commercialization and lifecycle management of the capillary electrophoresis (CE) instrument portfolio supporting clinical forensic applied sciences and research customers globally.

This role will be responsible for driving product growth customer engagement market development and portfolio performance for CE instruments and associated workflows. The successful candidate will serve as a key product management leader within the CE-HID organization and will work closely with global cross-functional teams across R&D applications commercial service operations regulatory quality finance and marketing.

The role requires strong business acumen technical understanding of CE instrumentation and laboratory workflows and the ability to translate customer and market needs into compelling product strategies differentiated solutions and profitable growth.

This is an onsite position in Pleasanton CA .

What will you do

Product Strategy and Lifecycle Ownership

Own the product vision strategy roadmap and lifecycle management for the CE instrument portfolio.

Define portfolio priorities and recommend strategic trade-offs across instruments software assays applications consumables and workflow capabilities.

Develop product strategies that address the needs of clinical forensic applied sciences and research laboratories.

Lead long-range portfolio planning product evolution upgrades and end-of-life strategies.

Partner with global product management and business leadership to align portfolio priorities with division strategy and growth objectives.

Identify opportunities to improve customer productivity workflow efficiency ease of use reliability and total cost of ownership.

Customer and Market Insights

Serve as the voice of the customer by translating unmet needs workflow challenges market trends and competitive intelligence into product requirements and roadmap priorities.

Engage directly with customers key opinion leaders channel partners and industry stakeholders to identify opportunities for innovation and growth.

Develop a deep understanding of laboratory workflows throughput requirements automation needs and data analysis expectations.

Analyze customer feedback market data win/loss insights and competitive offerings to inform portfolio decisions.

Represent global customer and market perspectives in global product planning and development discussions.

Cross-Functional Leadership

Lead cross-functional teams through influence across R&D applications commercial marketing service operations quality regulatory finance and supply chain.

Drive alignment on product requirements development priorities launch plans investment decisions and lifecycle activities.

Collaborate with global teams to ensure global market needs are reflected in product design product development commercialization and support strategies.

Establish clear business objectives decision criteria milestones and measures of success.

Build strong partnerships across a global matrix organization without direct authority.

Innovation and Workflow Enablement

Partner with R&D applications technology and commercial teams to identify and prioritize customer-backed product innovations.

Influence development of new instrument capabilities workflow improvements automation solutions software enhancements and applications.

Evaluate adjacent market opportunities and emerging technologies that can expand the value of the CE portfolio.

Develop business cases and customer value propositions for investments in workflow efficiency ease of use data management connectivity and laboratory automation.

Help define future platform and workflow strategies that strengthen portfolio competitiveness.

Commercialization and Market Development

Lead product positioning market segmentation value proposition development messaging and pricing recommendations.

Develop and execute commercialization strategies for new products enhancements and portfolio initiatives.

Partner with sales marketing applications service and channel teams to ensure launch readiness and customer adoption.

Support sales enablement through competitive positioning training presentations product messaging and customer-facing materials.

Participate in customer meetings trade shows advisory boards demonstrations and other market-facing activities.

Monitor market adoption and recommend actions to accelerate growth and improve customer experience.

Financial and Business Ownership

Own portfolio business performance including revenue growth market share profitability forecast accuracy and lifecycle value creation.

Develop business cases investment recommendations pricing analyses and financial models to support portfolio decisions.

Partner with finance and business leadership on forecasting annual operating plans demand planning and long-range planning.

Monitor portfolio performance and market results identify risks and opportunities and recommend corrective actions.

Balance customer value commercial potential development investment operational feasibility and business return.

How will you get here

Education

Bachelors degree in life sciences engineering molecular biology biotechnology chemistry or a related discipline required.

Advanced degree such as an MS MBA or PhD preferred.

Experience

5 or more years of experience in product management marketing applications commercial strategy or a related role within life sciences biotechnology clinical diagnostics forensic science or analytical instrumentation.

Experience with capillary electrophoresis genetic analysis molecular biology clinical diagnostics forensic workflows or related instrumentation preferred.

Experience managing complex laboratory instruments or workflow solutions preferred.

Demonstrated experience developing product strategy managing product lifecycles and commercializing complex instruments or workflow solutions.

Experience translating customer needs into product requirements roadmaps and business priorities.

Demonstrated success leading cross-functional initiatives in a global matrix organization.

Experience working with global customers commercial teams and market stakeholders.

Preferred Knowledge and Skills

Working knowledge of CE instrumentation genetic analysis electrophoresis workflows or related laboratory technologies.

Understanding of clinical forensic applied sciences or research laboratory environments.

Strong strategic thinking business acumen and analytical skills.

Ability to understand technical concepts and communicate their customer and business value.

Excellent communication presentation negotiation and influencing skills.

Strong customer orientation and ability to engage effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Ability to manage multiple priorities and make data-driven decisions in a complex cross-functional environment.

Strong organizational project management and execution skills.

Ability to collaborate effectively with global teams and travel domestically and internationally as needed.

Compensation and Benefits

The salary range estimated for this position based in California is $155900.00$208000.00.

This position may also be eligible to receive a variable annual bonus based on company team and/or individual performance results in accordance with company policy. We offer a comprehensive Total Rewards package that our U.S. colleagues and their families can count on which includes:

• A choice of national medical and dental plans and a national vision plan including health incentive programs

• Employee assistance and family support programs including commuter benefits and tuition reimbursement

• At least 120 hours paid time off (PTO) 10 paid holidays annually paid parental leave (3 weeks for bonding and 8 weeks for caregiver leave) accident and life insurance and short- and long-term disability in accordance with company policy

• Retirement and savings programs such as our competitive 401(k) U.S. retirement savings plan

• Employees Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) offers eligible colleagues the opportunity to purchase company stock at a discount

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