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Senior Manager, Product Management - Applied Omics
R-01365074
Pleasanton, CA
As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every day as we enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner, and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve their individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world’s toughest challenges, such as protecting wildlife, ensuring our food is safe, and helping to find cures for cancer.
Our Genetic Sciences Division is at the forefront of innovation in genetic analysis research and clinical applications. The Microarray Business Unit is a key platform within the division. You’ll be part of a division that pioneered several technologies and join an inquisitive, driven team that shares your passion for customer success!
How will you make an impact?
Enable our customers by leading and developing a product management team responsible for an integrated applied omics portfolio spanning reproductive health, agriculture, and human health. Own the Swift Array Studio platform and instrument portfolio strategy, balancing innovation across genomics and emerging omics modalities with lifecycle priorities, operational performance, and profitable global growth.
What will you do?
- Lead, coach, and develop a team of product managers; establish clear priorities, accountability, and an effective portfolio operating cadence.
- Develop and own the multi-year applied omics strategy across reproductive health, agricultural, and human applications, encompassing genomics, epigenomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and future complementary modalities.
- Set integrated roadmaps for instruments, software, applications, workflows, and content on the Swift Array Studio platform, making investment trade-offs across omics modalities, market segments, and regions.
- Own product lifecycle management, including pricing, forecasting, supply and demand, profitability, sustaining programs, cost reduction, capacity, and end-of-life planning.
- Partner with Operations, Manufacturing, Quality, Sourcing, R&D, Finance, and Commercial teams to translate market priorities into executable plans.
- Evaluate the financial and manufacturing impact of portfolio decisions, including customization, production complexity, cost of goods, capacity, utilization, and absorption.
- Drive innovation by translating customer needs into new genomic, epigenomic, transcriptomic, and proteomic content, applications, workflows, and product capabilities, while identifying opportunities to extend successful solutions across markets.
- Segment global applied omics markets by application, customer type, modality, and region; identify growth opportunities and define where Thermo Fisher Scientific can win.
- Assess NGS and other competing or complementary technologies and develop positioning that differentiates the portfolio as genomic and broader omics markets evolve.
- Lead commercialization and portfolio communication, serving as the product champion with internal teams, customers, and industry opinion leaders.
- Travel - Domestic and international travel may be required 25% to 50% of the time.
Education
- A bachelor's degree (B.S./B.A.) in an engineering or scientific field (molecular biology, genetics, bioengineering, biochemistry, or a related discipline preferred) is required.
- An MBA or advanced scientific degree with biotechnology industry experience is preferred.
- Experience in genomics or adjacent omics fields and knowledge of microarray and NGS technologies are strongly preferred.
Experience
- 7+ years of product management experience in life sciences, applied omics, biotechnology, or a related industry, including responsibility for a sophisticated product portfolio.
- Demonstrated direct people-management experience leading, coaching, and developing product managers or other professional staff.
- Experience managing lifecycle strategy, pricing, forecasting, supply and demand, profitability, sustaining initiatives, cost reduction, and capacity projects with Operations.
- Experience leading new product development and commercialization across R&D, Commercial, Finance, and Operations in a highly matrixed, global organization.
Knowledge, Skills, Abilities
- Excellent people leadership, communication, and influencing skills, with the ability to align teams around clear portfolio priorities.
- Strong business acumen and judgment for building strategies and making data-driven trade-offs across products, applications, markets, and regions.
- Deep understanding of lifecycle management and manufacturing economics, including product cost, capacity, utilization, supply continuity, and factory absorption.
- Strong financial modeling and analytical skills, including business cases, forecasts, profitability models, and performance metrics.
- Ability to dive deeply into product capabilities, manufacturing processes, customer workflows, customization requirements, omics applications, and regional market needs.
- Strong competitive analysis skills across microarray, NGS, epigenomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, software, lab automation, and related life science technologies.
- Ability to work effectively in a matrix structure and build strong relationships with customers, key opinion leaders, commercial teams, and cross-functional partners.
Compensation and Benefits
The salary range estimated for this position based in California is $143,000.00–$232,600.00.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
For more information on our benefits, please visit: https://jobs.thermofisher.com/global/en/total-rewards
Skills Required
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, molecular biology, genetics, bioengineering, biochemistry, or a related scientific field
- 7+ years of product management experience in life sciences, applied omics, biotechnology, or a related industry
- Experience managing a sophisticated product portfolio
- Direct people-management experience leading, coaching, and developing product managers or other professional staff
- Experience with lifecycle strategy, pricing, forecasting, supply and demand, profitability, sustaining initiatives, cost reduction, and capacity projects
- Experience leading new product development and commercialization across R&D, Commercial, Finance, and Operations in a global matrixed organization
- MBA or advanced scientific degree with biotechnology industry experience
- Experience in genomics or adjacent omics fields
- Knowledge of microarray and next-generation sequencing technologies
- Strong financial modeling, analytical, competitive analysis, communication, influencing, and people leadership skills
Thermo Fisher Scientific Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Thermo Fisher Scientific and has not been reviewed or approved by Thermo Fisher Scientific.
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Retirement Support — Retirement programs include a strong company 401(k) match and an employee stock purchase plan that add meaningful long‑term value. Feedback suggests these features stand out among core financial benefits even when base pay feels average.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage offers multiple national medical options alongside dental and vision, with company‑paid life and disability coverage. This breadth is considered a solid foundation even if some costs may not be the lowest among peers.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental and caregiver leave, backup care, adoption assistance, and specialized family resources are available. Feedback suggests these supports are a notable plus for colleagues managing family and caregiving needs.
Thermo Fisher Scientific Insights
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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