Job Title: Senior Product Manager, Product Ownership

When you’re part of the team at Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll do important work, like helping customers in finding cures for cancer, protecting the environment or making sure our food is safe. Your work will have real-world impact, and you’ll be supported in achieving your career goals.

How will you make an impact?

The Senior Product Manager will orchestrate and lead a collaborative planning process to support IVD assay strategy to support the Genetic Science Division Clinical Vertical’s commercial business goals.

This role will have responsibility for managing products globally in support of clinical molecular testing. As a part of the team member of the core team, this role will interact with other departments including R&D, Manufacturing, Service & Support, Quality Assurance, Regulatory, Global and Regional Marketing, Customer Support and Finance to support on-market IVD products

What will you do?

• Partner with the R&D and product management peers to successfully define and execute sustaining product plan
• Assigned projects may involve both internal development, partnerships with external collaborators or 3rd parties, and interaction with various regulatory bodies
• Partner with Product Marketing and Business Development to incorporate regional considerations in portfolio decisions and go to market priorities
• Ensure successful implementation of our go to market plans to accomplish customer adoption, use goals and financial objectives
• Own the customer-driven process to define user workflow in different use settings
• Drive successful relationships with key customers to ensure we understand emerging trends and successful adoption of new products
• Provide technical marketing support to sales/support teams, training and tool development
• Collect VOC from customers and internal stakeholders for customer requirements to the R&D & Manufacturing team
• Create test plans and protocols, and coordinate the creation of legal agreements
• Proactively ensure that all members of the commercial team are engaged, incentivized and trained on the go to market IVD assays launc

Travel

Domestic and international travel X% of the time

How will you get here?

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Molecular Biology, Biochemistry or related fields, with strong preference for an advanced degree (MS or PhD), MBA strongly preferred

• 8+ years of industry experience with a phased gate product development methodology for life sciences.

• Extensive experience developing and validating assays in LDT- and IVD-regulated environments, including successful interactions with the notified bodies in EMEA and/or FDA.
• Hands-on, practical knowledge of requirements of working under design control required
• Experience in Life Sciences, Genomics, or Pharmaceutical industries. Experience with molecular and/or DNA array technology is highly desirable.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• Work independently, in a collaborative environment, and be able to handle multiple projects in parallel
• Previous experience in a product management role. Must have developed portfolio plans and led teams to execute the successful launch and ramp to volume of multiple products
• Must have demonstrated track record of successfully building and leading teams.
• Must have strong analytical skills and ability to tie detailed analysis to larger strategy
• Must be willing to work in a fast paced, “matrixed” environment, managing multiple products that serve the needs of varying (and even overlapping) markets
• Must be able to communicate requirements and negotiate priorities with both R&D and Software teams
• Must possess exceptional communication skills (verbal, written, presentation) including the demonstrated ability to influence senior management about key decisions associated with portfolio, product and pricing decisions