Senior Strategic Product Manager

 

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Ready to explore, break barriers, and discover more? We know you’ve got big plans – so do we! Our colleagues across the globe love innovating with science and technology to enrich people’s lives with our solutions in Healthcare, Life Science, and Electronics. Together, we dream big and are passionate about caring for our rich mix of people, customers, patients, and planet. That's why we are always looking for curious minds that see themselves imagining the unimaginable with us.  

 

This role does not offer sponsorship for work authorization. External applicants must be eligible to work in the US. 

 

Your Role:

As a Senior Strategic Product Manager for our Virus/TFF Portfolio, you will work closely in a highly visible global team focused on product/portfolio strategy, integrated business management and next generation technologies for (bio-)pharmaceutical production acting as a business owner. Based on deep knowledge of global market dynamics, customer needs and business opportunities in your area of responsibility, you will drive the development and implementation of mid- to long-term strategies for the Virus/TFF Business focusing on customer satisfaction and driving portfolio growth.

 

In this role you will be expected to work on various activities:

 

• Execute Virus/TFF business strategy to meet short and long-term business objectives: drive order intake, competitive conversion and seeding
• Drive critical innovation projects: business case and concept briefs preparation, market assessment, voice of customer, financial analysis, new product positioning and market introduction, launch collaterals, sales training, etc.
• Analyze market dynamics and develop reliable forecasts
• Support portfolio pricing strategy by working closely with product owners and the pricing team to maximize win rate and profit contribution
• Proactively manage portfolio lifecycle strategy: drive decisions from product development and market introduction, up to product rationalization, to secure overall business health and optimize our offering that reflects customer needs
• Define portfolio positioning, segment and marketing plans in alignment with the business strategy and based on extensive product, application and industry knowledge; actively monitor competitor portfolio, innovation pipeline and activities; align with internal stakeholders to develop appropriate Go-To-Market plans
• Lead and prepare business cases for strategic investments and drive the decision-making process
• Work proactively with commercial teams to understand specific customer needs, overall market trends and future opportunities
• Collaborate and align with internal stakeholders across functions (e.g., R&D, Portfolio Operations, Strategy, Commercial, Pricing, Value Chain, Controlling) and multiple sites in a global and highly complex matrixed environment
• Prepare presentations to be socialized with stakeholders, sponsors and senior management

This will be a hybrid role based out of our offices in Bedford, MA.

 

Who you are:

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in engineering or business; Master’s degree, MBA, or PhD is a plus
• 5+ years professional experience, preferably in Life Sciences or pharmaceutical industry

Preferred Qualifications:

• Strong business acumen
• Experience in leading business strategies, product development, go-to market strategies with a customer centric mindset 
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Strong analytical and digital skills, including the ability to build and interpret business and market data as well as efficiently use digital tools
• Ability to collaborate and i