Product Manager – Physisorption & Chemisorption
Location : Norcross, Georgia (Hybrid)
Are you passionate about translating customer insights into innovative products that drive scientific discovery? We are looking for a Product Manager to lead the strategy, development, commercialization, and lifecycle management of our Physisorption & Chemisorption portfolio. In this highly visible role, you will work across global teams to shape product roadmaps, identify market opportunities, and deliver solutions that help customers solve complex materials characterization challenges.
Reporting to the Group Product Manager, Gas Porosity & Reactivity Solutions, you will play a key role in driving portfolio growth, market expansion, and competitive differentiation while partnering with R&D, Sales, Marketing, Applications, Finance, Service, and Operations teams worldwide.
Responsibilities
- Define and maintain the product roadmap for assigned products, aligning investments with customer needs and business strategy.
- Develop business cases and evaluate new product development opportunities to support investment decisions.
- Translate customer needs, market opportunities, and emerging technologies into compelling product concepts and requirements.
- Conduct voice-of-customer research, competitor analysis, and market assessments to inform product strategy.
- Establish pricing strategies and support portfolio profitability and growth objectives.
- Partner with Marketing to develop product launch plans, demand generation activities, and value proposition messaging.
- Equip Sales teams with product positioning, competitive intelligence, sales tools, and customer-facing collateral.
- Manage the full product lifecycle, including new product introductions, enhancements, portfolio optimization, and end-of-life planning.
- Develop global growth strategies and maintain deep knowledge of competitive technologies and market trends.
- Act as a key product ambassador with customers, industry stakeholders, Applications teams, and Sales organizations.
What You Will Bring to the Role
- Bachelor's degree in Science, Engineering, Chemistry, Materials Science, or a related technical discipline.
- 5+ years of experience in product management, applications, technical marketing, scientific instrumentation, materials characterization, or a related technical field.
- Proven ability to translate customer and market insights into product requirements and commercial strategies.
- Strong analytical, technical, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
- Demonstrated success working across multidisciplinary and global teams.
Nice to Have
- Advanced degree (MS, MSc, PhD, or equivalent) in a scientific or engineering discipline.
- Experience with adsorption science, porosity characterization, catalysis, or materials characterization technologies.
- Knowledge of scientific instrumentation markets and global product commercialization.
- Experience developing go-to-market strategies for technical products.
Product Portfolio
This role has direct responsibility for products within the Physisorption & Chemisorption portfolio, including:
- TriStar
- 3Flex
- Gemini
- ASAP
- Chemisorb Auto
- AutoChem
- AccuSorb
You will also contribute to the development of the next generation of Physisorption solutions as part of the long-term product roadmap.
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We provide market-leading, material characterization technologies for the world's most innovative companies, academic institutions, and government laboratories in the analytics of advanced materials.
We support our customers through their biggest challenges, from developing lifesaving vaccines to sustainable fuels. We wake up every day to delight our customers through innovation, high-quality solutions and workflows, and excellence in customer satisfaction.
We are a recognized leader for quality and insights in material characterization; winning customers with performance and keeping them with service. With more than 2,000 employees operating in over 20 countries across the world, and R&D sites in North America, Europe and Asia.
We are part of Spectris, a company which combines precision with purpose to equip customers to solve some of their greatest challenges to make the world cleaner, healthier and more productive. In 2025, Spectris acquired Micromeritics as part of Malvern Panalytical.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Science, Engineering, Chemistry, Materials Science, or a related technical discipline
- 5+ years of experience in product management, applications, technical marketing, scientific instrumentation, materials characterization, or a related technical field
- Ability to translate customer and market insights into product requirements and commercial strategies
- Strong analytical, technical, communication, and stakeholder management skills
- Demonstrated success working across multidisciplinary and global teams
- Advanced degree in a scientific or engineering discipline
- Experience with adsorption science, porosity characterization, catalysis, or materials characterization technologies
- Knowledge of scientific instrumentation markets and global product commercialization
- Experience developing go-to-market strategies for technical products
What We Do
Spectris harnesses the power of precision measurement to equip customers to make the world cleaner, healthier, and more productive. The company provides high-tech instruments, test equipment, and software for many of the world’s most technically demanding industrial applications.
