Thermo Fisher Scientific is a global leader in scientific solutions, dedicated to making the world healthier, cleaner, and safer. They are seeking a Senior Product Manager to lead a portfolio of laboratory-scale filtration products, focusing on innovation and aligning product offerings with customer workflows. This role involves collaboration with various teams to ensure successful product lifecycle management and market strategy execution.
Responsibilities:
- Own the global portfolio of laboratory-scale and process development filtration products, including positioning, segmentation, pricing, and lifecycle strategy
- Define and drive the innovation roadmap for lab-scale products, ensuring alignment with emerging modalities, process intensification trends, and evolving customer workflows
- Lead development of new products and applications that support early-stage process development and enable seamless scale-up to manufacturing platforms
- Act as the voice of the customer—deeply understanding the needs of scientists and process development engineers—and translate insights into differentiated product and application solutions
- Partner closely with R&D and applications teams to ensure strong linkage between lab-scale product design and manufacturability, scalability, and regulatory considerations
- Develop and execute targeted go-to-market strategies for lab-scale offerings, including value propositions tailored to R&D, PD, and MSAT stakeholders
- Drive portfolio optimization, including simplification, standardization, and cost improvements across lab-scale SKUs
- Monitor trends in bioprocess development (e.g., cell & gene therapy, mRNA, high-density cell culture) to inform product strategy and prioritization
- Champion high-impact initiatives focused on revenue growth, margin improvement, cost reduction, quality enhancement, and delivery optimization
- Identify and execute initiatives to increase adoption in early-stage workflows, improving pull-through into commercial-scale products
- Provide expert guidance on product positioning and strategic marketing plans, directly influencing our go-to-market strategies
- Deliver insightful monthly performance reports and forecasts, contributing to data-driven decision-making at the highest levels
- Lead market segmentation focused on R&D, process development, and pilot-scale customers across biotech, pharma, and emerging modalities
- Conduct deep competitive analysis of lab-scale tools and platforms, including ease-of-use, scalability, and data reproducibility
- Drive VOC initiatives specifically with scientists, PD teams, and MSAT groups to uncover unmet needs in early-stage workflows
- Identify whitespace opportunities in lab-scale formats, kits, and integrated solutions that simplify process development
Requirements:
- Bachelors degree required
- 5+ years of Proven experience in product planning and product life-cycle management, including portfolio planning, market research, market strategy, and value-based pricing
- Strong capability to conduct financial analyses, develop financial models, and interpret P&L statements as they relate to the product portfolio
- Successful track record of launching new products from concept through market introduction
- Proficiency in working with customers, commercial teams, and various sales channels, including Tier 1 and Tier 2 distributors and direct sales
- Masters Degree preferred
- Demonstrated success in a Global Product Management role, driving overall portfolio strategy, preferred