Senior Product Manager - Fill Finish

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Job Description

As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you’ll discover meaningful work that positively impacts customers at 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 world’s toughest challenges, like protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer!

Our Single Use Flexibles Solutions Business Unit is part of our Single-Use Division. Our innovative single-use technologies enable customers to accelerate their biological manufacturing processes to build flexibility and operate more dynamically within their upstream and downstream workflows. We provide customers with configurable Bioprocess Containers (BPCs), fluid transfer assemblies, and Fill Finish products that help ensure manufacturing flexibility and mitigate risk of particulates.

This Senior Product Manager will develop and implement global product strategies to accelerate the growth of our exciting Fill Finish line. This role also leads the product portfolio's day-to-day tactical aspects, supporting market analysis, planning, and commercial strategy. Key success metrics of this position are revenue growth, portfolio profitability, and market share expansion.  

A Day in the Life:

• Lead the life cycle of the existing product portfolio. Responsibilities include driving product line strategies, go-to-market execution, pricing, and customer intimacy efforts.
• Own the revenue and margin targets, overcoming challenges and driving to the targeted forecast.
• Develop, implement, and run new and/or existing products in a portfolio by creating and implementing product marketing plans, leading New Product Introduction (NPI) teams, and providing data related to competitors, the market, positioning, revenue and unit forecasting, and pricing strategies.
• Evaluate and craft financially sound business proposals for new products, services, and partnerships.
• An effective performer will maintain close relationships with field organization (e.g., sales and technical support) through training and active participation in the sales process, including customer visits and support.
• Champion successful launches through requirements, development, and commercialization.
• Understand and analyze market environment, including strengths, weaknesses, and product competition. Analyze, interpret, and report regularly to management regarding sales forecasts, product supply, and competition.
• Serve as product champion and provide strategic direction for all product and portfolio-related projects to other Marketing, R&D, Operations, and Commercial groups.
• Provide input to business unit annual strategic plan development, including STRAP and AOP.

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in a scientific field or business required.  
• MBA or equivalent experience is highly preferred.

Experience:

• 6+ years experience of in life sciences industry, product management, or market development
• Bioproduction or Life Sciences industry experience required; downstream bioprocessing experience strongly preferred.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams in a highly matrixed organization and working directly with customers.
• Strong leadership, project management and planning skills.
• Experience working with customers, commercial teams and a diverse range of sales channels strongly preferred.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Shown ability to influence and lead convincingly, driving cross-functional teams to succeed in challenging and ambiguous situations.
• Experienced working in a matrixed organization.
• Must work well with others – inspires trust and open communication amongst team members and peers. Passionately shares Thermo Fisher Scientific’s 4i values.
• Global approach - excellent communication and presentation abilities, including strong active listening skills.
• Results and proactive dedicated, the ability to think critically to overcome potential business hurdles to complete tasks.

We offer competitive remuneration, annual incentive plan bonus scheme, healthcare, company pension, and a range of employee benefits!

Thermo Fisher Scientific offers employment with an innovative, forward-thinking organization, and outstanding career and development prospects. We offer an exciting company culture that stands for integrity, intensity, involvement, and innovation.