By joining Bio-Techne, you’ll join a company with a powerful and positive purpose of enabling cutting-edge research in Life Sciences and Clinical Diagnostics. Bio-Techne, and all of its brands, provides tools for researchers to further treat and prevent disease worldwide.
Pay Range:
$44,300.00 - $72,950.00The position is intended as an entry-level position into product management, with relevant technical experience and education.
The Product Specialist is an integral member of the Strategic Product Management Team, supporting products across a wide portfolio. A strong candidate must be highly organized, with the ability to identify common business activities across the product management group and develop standardized processes to ensure smooth business operations. The Product Specialist will own or assist with specific business functions within the product management team, including but not limited to pricing, project management, collateral review (marketing, commercial, and training), document control, sales & strategic communications, market/data analysis. This position will be responsible for supporting and/or creating reporting tools and methods for specific application areas, in collaboration with the product management team. The Product Specialist will assist in building and/or improving products from existing ideas and help develop new ideas based on domain experience as well as contact with customers and prospects in the market.
Key Responsibilities:
- Assistance with the Pricing process: includes price setting, working with sales and product managers to set discount schedules, managing pricing updates, managing pricing across all channels globally, and price positioning analysis.
- Project management: Assisting or leading execution of new and/or existing business priorities to ensure thorough completion and that timelines are met. Applicable teams include all teams internal or external that impact a product within the business unit’s portfolio.
- Collateral Review: Includes working with Product Management, Product Marketing, or and/or Commercial leadership to help develop and review any forms of collateral based on business needs. May include the following:
- Marketing campaigns: contributing to marketing collateral development, reviewing content updates of customer-facing materials (web, brochures, etc.)
- Commercial collateral: contributing to and/or managing the creation and/or updating of various resources for use by the commercial and international sales teams. Includes items such as competitive battlecards and product positioning documents.
- Training material: contributing to and/or managing the creation and/or updating of training material, based on internal or external needs.
- Sales communication: Assisting or leading execution of new and/or existing regularly scheduled sales meetings– to include defining frequency & format, agenda development, meeting logistics & preparation, capturing of related action items.
- Market & Data Analyses: Assisting or leading the maintenance or creation of market analysis and other internal or external data analyses. Includes items such as competitor profiling, internal or external pricing, market and competitive positioning, benchmarking, competitive marketing activities/strategy, revenue, and customer profiles.
- Perform additional duties as assigned.
Qualifications
Education and Experience:
- Requires a minimum of a bachelor’s degree in a scientific field with 0-1 years of experience or equivalent of 2-5 years of equivalent experience in a related field
- Relevant laboratory or technical experience highly preferred
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Basic, functional knowledge about the scientific product(s) and their uses, competitor(s) and their product(s), and the marketplace, as well as the ability to gain in-depth knowledge
- Aptitude in product/customer/sales analysis which will lead to defining successful strategies and launching outstanding products
- Ability to work independently, to make the necessary decisions to drive product management projects.
- Proficient in planning, organization, problem solving and multi-tasking skills to complete assignments in a timely, efficient manner
- Proficient in the use of computer applications and software that allow for analysis and presentation of data as well as productivity (i.e. Microsoft Office, Salesforce.com), as well as ability to become proficient in proprietary databases and ERP solutions
- Outstanding oral and written communication and presentation skills allowing the ability to communicate professionally across all layers of the organization as well as customer’s and prospect’s organizations
- Ability to handle sensitive and proprietary information with discretion and confidentiality
- Ability to travel up to four times a year as required
Why Join Bio-Techne:
- We offer competitive insurance benefits starting on day one: medical, dental, vision, life, short-term disability, long-term disability, pet, and legal and ID shield.
- We invest in our employees’ financial futures through 401k plans, an employee stock purchase plan (ESPP), Health Saving Account (HSA), Flexible Spending Account (FSA), and Dependent Care FSA.
- We empower our employees develop their careers through mentorship, promotional opportunities, training and development, tuition reimbursement, internship programs, and more.
- We offer employee resource groups, volunteer paid time off, employee events, and charity drives to build a culture of caring and belonging.
- We offer an accrued leave policy with paid holidays, paid time off, and paid parental leave.
- We foster a culture of empowerment and innovation, where employees feel valued and encouraged to bring their new ideas to the table.
Bio-Techne is an E-Verify Employer in the United States.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
To protect the interests of all, Bio-Techne will not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than a candidate application. Any unsolicited resumes sent to Bio-Techne will be considered Bio-Techne property.
Top Skills
What We Do
Bio-Techne Corporation (NASDAQ: TECH) is a leading developer and manufacturer of high-quality purified proteins and reagent solutions - notably cytokines and growth factors, antibodies, immunoassays, biologically active small molecule compounds, tissue culture reagents, and cell and gene therapy workflow solutions including T-Cell activation technologies. Bio-Techne’s portfolio also includes protein analysis solutions, sold under the ProteinSimple brand name, that offer researchers efficient and streamlined options for automated Western blot and multiplexed ELISA workflow. These reagent and protein analysis solutions are sold to biomedical researchers, as well as clinical research laboratories, and constitute the Protein Sciences Segment.
Bio-Techne also develops and manufactures diagnostic products including FDA-regulated controls, calibrators, blood gas and clinical chemistry controls, and other reagents for OEM and clinical customers. Bio-Techne’s genomic tools include advanced tissue-based in situ hybridization assays (ISH) for research and clinical use, sold under the ACD brand, as well as a portfolio of clinical molecular diagnostic oncology assays including the ExoDx®Prostate (IntelliScore) test (EPI) for prostate cancer diagnosis. These diagnostic and genomic products comprise Bio-Techne’s Diagnostics and Genomics Segment.
Bio-Techne products are integral components of scientific investigations into biological processes and molecular diagnostics, revealing the nature, diagnosis, etiology and progression of specific diseases. They aid in drug discovery efforts and provide the means for accurate clinical tests and diagnoses. With thousands of products in its portfolio, Bio-Techne generated approximately $714 million in net sales in fiscal 2019 and has over 2,200 employees worldwide.
