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OfficeJob Description
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 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.
Discover Impactful Work
The Senior Manager, Application & Modality Storytelling will lead the development of science-forward narratives that connect Thermo Fisher Scientific’s Biosciences Division portfolio to high-priority applications, modalities, workflows, and customer challenges in life sciences research.
This role will sit at the intersection of integrated marketing, business unit strategy, scientific content, portfolio marketing, and customer engagement. The successful candidate will build compelling, evidence-based stories that span multiple business units and help customers understand how Thermo Fisher enables progress across complex and evolving areas of research and therapeutic innovation.
This individual will be responsible for creating scalable storytelling frameworks that translate product and workflow strengths into differentiated, customer-relevant narratives. They will partner closely with business unit marketing teams, commercial teams, scientific subject matter experts, agency partners, corporate brand teams, and regional stakeholders to elevate cross-portfolio stories and bring them to life through campaigns, content, events, thought leadership, and integrated activation plans.
In the near term, the role will support the development and refinement of strategic storytelling frameworks for an initial priority application or modality area, including audience strategy, narrative architecture, workflow storytelling, evidence mapping, content gap analysis, and pilot activation planning.
Location
This is an onsite role based in one of the following locations: Carlsbad, CA; Austin, TX; Grand Island, NY; Pittsburgh, PA; Rockford, IL; Waltham, MA. Please note that relocation assistance is not provided for this position.
Key Responsibilities
- Build application- and modality-based storytelling frameworks that connect customer needs, scientific trends, workflow challenges, and Thermo Fisher capabilities across multiple business units.
- Develop clear narrative architectures, messaging pillars, proof points, and activation guidance for priority research areas, workflows, applications, and modalities.
- Translate complex scientific, technical, and portfolio information into cohesive stories for campaigns, content, web, events, sales enablement, thought leadership, and commercial programs.
- Serve as a divisional connector and cross-company storytelling partner, identifying synergies across business units and helping teams move from product-centric messaging to integrated, science-led narratives.
- Partner with business unit marketing, portfolio marketing, integrated marketing, commercial, R&D, application science, and external agency teams to align on audience needs, claims, evidence, content priorities, and activation opportunities.
- Use customer, market, competitive, and portfolio insights to shape storytelling priorities and ensure narratives are relevant, differentiated, and commercially meaningful.
- Assess existing content, claims, scientific evidence, and portfolio assets to identify gaps, duplication, and opportunities to strengthen campaign readiness.
- Create repeatable tools, templates, and processes that enable marketing teams to build and activate cross-portfolio stories consistently.
- Support pilot activation plans, including content recommendations, channel considerations, commercial enablement needs, and success metrics.
- Influence stakeholders across a matrixed organization, driving alignment, clarity, and momentum around priority application and modality stories.
Keys to Success
Education
- Bachelor’s degree in a life science discipline required.
Experience
- 5+ years of experience in life sciences marketing, scientific communications, portfolio marketing, content strategy, campaign strategy, or a related role within life sciences, biotechnology, diagnostics, biopharma, or scientific products.
- Strong scientific and application-level understanding, with the ability to translate complex technical topics into clear, compelling narratives for scientific and commercial audiences.
- Experience developing marketing strategies, messaging frameworks, content strategies, or integrated campaigns across multiple products, workflows, or business units.
- Ability to analyze customer, market, competitor, and portfolio inputs to identify strategic storytelling opportunities.
- Strong cross-functional leadership skills, including the ability to influence without authority and align stakeholders in a matrixed organization.
- Experience partnering with agencies and managing strategic deliverables from brief through executional handoff.
- Excellent written, verbal, presentation, and project management skills.
Preferred
- Advanced degree in a life science discipline or equivalent experience.
- Experience in biosciences, molecular biology, cell biology, protein biology, antibodies, imaging, flow cytometry, cell and gene therapy, synthetic biology, neuroscience, oncology, immunology, or related research areas.
- Experience developing disease-area, application-area, workflow, or modality-based marketing strategies.
- Familiarity with claims development, scientific evidence mapping, content governance, legal/regulatory review, and commercial enablement.
- Experience working in a global organization with regional marketing and commercial teams.
Key Success Measures
- Scalable storytelling frameworks adopted by business units and marketing teams.
- Stronger alignment across business units on priority audiences, narratives, proof points, and activation opportunities.
- Clearer, more differentiated stories that elevate Thermo Fisher’s role in key applications, workflows, and modalities.
- Identification of content, evidence, and claims gaps that improve campaign readiness.
- Pilot activation plans that demonstrate customer relevance, commercial value, and measurable marketing impact.
Leadership Profile
The ideal candidate is a strategic storyteller, cross-functional connector, and scientifically curious marketer who can operate comfortably in ambiguity. They can synthesize complex inputs, identify the larger story, and bring stakeholders together around a shared narrative.
This person should be energized by building something new: a repeatable storytelling capability that helps Thermo Fisher Scientific show up more powerfully in the applications, workflows, and modalities that matter most to customers.
Other:
- Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship now or in the future.
- Must be able to pass a comprehensive background check and drug screen.
Compensation and Benefits
The salary range estimated for this position based in California is $130,000.00–$165,000.00.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 a life science discipline
- 5+ years experience in life sciences marketing, scientific communications, portfolio marketing, content strategy, or related role
- Strong scientific and application-level understanding with ability to translate complex technical topics for scientific and commercial audiences
- Experience developing marketing strategies, messaging frameworks, content strategies, or integrated campaigns across multiple products or business units
- Ability to analyze customer, market, competitor, and portfolio inputs to identify storytelling opportunities
- Strong cross-functional leadership and ability to influence without authority in a matrixed organization
- Experience partnering with agencies and managing strategic deliverables from brief through executional handoff
- Excellent written, verbal, presentation, and project management skills
- Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship
- Ability to pass a comprehensive background check and drug screen
- Advanced degree in a life science discipline or equivalent experience
- Experience in biosciences domains (molecular biology, cell biology, imaging, flow cytometry, cell and gene therapy, oncology, immunology, etc.)
- Experience with claims development, scientific evidence mapping, content governance, and legal/regulatory review
- Experience working in a global organization with regional marketing and commercial teams
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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