Sr. Manager, Product Management, Molecular Diagnostics

Employment Type: Full-time Work Schedule: Standard (Mon-Fri) Environmental Conditions: Office

Position Overview

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.

Thermo Fisher Scientific’s Transplant Diagnostics Division develops and commercializes several lines of In-Vitro Diagnostics (IVD) histocompatibility (HLA) tests and services.

Discover Impactful Work

Seeking a motivated leader for Sr. Manager, Product Management, Molecular Diagnostics, leading all aspects of our Molecular Product Portfolio. Responsible for product management, lifecycle, expansion, talent development, and product quality.

Responsibilities

Strategic Leadership

• Take ownership of the P&L for the product portfolio, ensuring the successful execution of critical initiatives dedicated to driving profitability.
• Optimize product mix, spearhead cost-reduction projects, and enable high-margin innovative R&D projects.
• Coordinate the entire product lifecycle, from conception to discontinuation.
• Lead the product roadmap and ensure it aligns with business goals and market needs.

Team Development

• Act as a leader to the product management team, focusing on talent development, mentorship, and strategic guidance.

Regular Reporting

• Provide consistent monthly updates to business unit and divisional leadership, outlining progress in relation to annual operating plan objectives and critical initiatives.

Innovative Leadership

• Demonstrate a global perspective, showcase outstanding leadership qualities, and take on challenges through a combination of problem-solving abilities, critical thinking, and high emotional intelligence.

Market Development

• Collaborate closely with global market development, downstream marketing, and regional marketing teams to orchestrate campaigns that amplify product awareness and stimulate demand.

Keys to Success

Education

• Required: Bachelor’s degree, preferably in molecular diagnostics, life sciences, or other healthcare field.
• Strongly Preferred: Graduate level degree in life sciences or Master of Business Administration (MBA).

Experience

• Requires 5+ years in healthcare or life sciences with expertise in product management, particularly with molecular diagnostics.
• 4 years of proven experience managing a team.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Strong intuition for business and a consistent track record of developing and maintaining positive professional and personal relationships with key business partners and customers, positively impacting business growth.
• Executive presence with strong communication and presentation capabilities.
• Interest in developing high-functioning teams with strong leadership capabilities.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to gather and interpret data to make informed decisions.
• Demonstrated success working in a global, matrixed environment with the ability to influence without direct authority, effectively driving large-scale initiatives from a business and cultural standpoint.
• Proficiency in using project management and collaboration tools is desirable.
• Willingness to travel up to 25%, both domestically and internationally.

Performance Metrics

• Contribution will be assessed based on metrics such as revenue, bookings, customer-allegiance score (CAS), product vitality, and overall profitability.

Benefits

• We offer competitive remuneration, annual incentive plan bonus, healthcare, and a range of employee benefits.