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We are currently recruiting a Global Product Manager to join our global assays marketing team within the Protein Diagnostics Division (PDX). You will join a team passionate about helping patients get appropriate diagnoses, enabling them to live healthier lives.
The job: We are currently recruiting a Global Product Manager to join our global assays marketing team within the Protein Diagnostics Division (PDX). You will join a team passionate about helping patients get appropriate diagnoses, enabling them to live healthier lives.
Our product strategy is crafted to provide you experiences in understanding global markets and the responsibility of growing one of Thermo Fisher's product segments. You will work with an outstanding team in an international working environment to make an impact to deliver market leading products.
This is an upstream marketing role, with the primary function to support the existing assays product range within the Optilite® immunoassays portfolio and help define new product development. Reporting to the Portfolio leader, you will:
- Lead market evaluation activities by turning Voice-of-Customer/Expert, competitive intelligence, and profitability analysis into clear requirements, positioning, and go-to-market plans for new IVD products. Support the development of new products through to their commercialization, and handover to the downstream assay’s global product manager at launch.
- Inspire changes to our existing assays, acting as the central pivot between Manufacturing, Sales, R&D, Finance, Regulatory, and Quality to drive growth and customer success.
This role will be a hybrid position working 3 days/week at our PDX headquarters in Birmingham, UK. With the option to work from home 1 to 2 days per week. Some international travel (up to 25% per annum), including overnight stays, will be required.
What will you do?
- Work with global colleagues and customers to identify new business opportunities/markets and lead their evaluation (technical, customer need, business potential).
- Collect, evaluate and leverage voice-of-Customer / Voice-of-Expert to define critical customer and product requirements to guide development, product positioning and support value proposition activities, ensuring alignment with business goals and customer expectations.
- Analyze product profitability within the product portfolio context and prepare business proposals and financial models.
- Collect global market and competitor intelligence and translate this into useable market insights to support positioning and commercialisation of the products and help build go-to-market strategies for new IVD products.
- Where appropriate, coordinate with external suppliers to develop new products.
- Create product documentation and support product launch activities, including coordinating with internal & global subsidiary team members, preparing technical marketing collateral, and assisting in go-to-market strategies.
- Develop and deliver new product training programs for internal and external customers.
- Sustain product documentation and monitor product quality in line with the Quality management system.
- Build collaborative cross-functional relationships with Sales, R&D, Finance, Regulatory and Quality colleagues, acting as a pivot role to ensure alignment and success.
Who we are looking for:
Education
·Degree in Science-related subject, e.g., Chemistry, Biological Sciences is required
·Advanced degree preferred
Experience
- At least 2+ years of clear product ownership in a product management, product marketing, product specialist. sales, or business development role.
- Significant experience of the medical device, clinical diagnostics, or life sciences industry in an international setting.
- Track record in driving business growth through the development and execution of product improvement and upstream marketing strategies.
- Knowledge and experience from a regulatory environment and/or Life Sciences is a merit.
Knowledge, Skills, Abilities
- Outstanding interpersonal, verbal, and written presentation abilities, and experience of presenting to technical and business teams. Proficiency in English is required.
- Ability to work within a diverse, cross-functional team across multiple sites.
- Results focussed with strong quantitative, analytical, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to assemble and interpret data to make informed decisions.
- Demonstrates Thermo Fisher Scientific values – Integrity, Intensity, Innovation, and Involvement.
Optilite is a registered trademark of The Binding Site Group Ltd (Birmingham, UK) in certain countries.
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What We Do
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. is the world leader in serving science, with annual revenue of approximately $40 billion. Our Mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. Whether our customers are accelerating life sciences research, solving complex analytical challenges, increasing productivity in their laboratories, improving patient health through diagnostics or the development and manufacture of life-changing therapies, we are here to support them. Our global team delivers an unrivaled combination of innovative technologies, purchasing convenience and pharmaceutical services through our industry-leading brands, including Thermo Scientific, Applied Biosystems, Invitrogen, Fisher Scientific, Unity Lab Services, Patheon and PPD.
Why Work With Us
You will join a company which every colleague has the opportunity to create possibilities, for oneself, for our customers and patients. There is no more exciting place to be than at the forefront of solving problems which help improve lives around the world. As a company, we are committed to supporting your career aspirations and your journey.
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