Work Schedule

Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions

Office

Job 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.

Location/Division-Specific Information:

This position is within the Chromatography and Mass Spectrometry Division of the Analytical Instruments Group. The ideal candidate would be based in Sunnyvale, California. The Product Manager for Ion Chromatography/Sample Preparation (IC/SP) Business Unit will be accountable for the strategic direction and positive adoption of new and existing products for the ion chromatography consumables product portfolio within the business unit. This includes overall responsibility and accountability for delivering on the product lines' revenue, profitability, and growth. They will be responsible and accountable for understanding customer needs, analyzing market conditions (working with marketing teams), defining features or functions, and ultimately delivering a product and product retirement. This role spans different activities from strategic to tactical and will serve as an interdisciplinary role between R&D, operations, marketing, and commercial organization.

A day in the life

Product Revenue and Metrics

Responsible for product revenue, margin and new product impact

Prepares financial justification models; handles the P&L for the product(s).

Analyzes, evaluates, and makes recommendations based on findings to drive and improve performance.

Motivates changes based on strategic shifts and internal and external factors in conjunction with team members.

Portfolio Roadmap and Planning

Partners with business and functional partners to drive the OEM strategy and opportunities

Proposes solutions for gaps in portfolio including potential partnership opportunities.

Collaborates on annual operating plan, marketing plan and strategic plan to achieve growth and financial objectives.

Product Life Cycle Ownership

Handles lifecycle of a product (inception to retirement).

Builds and drives product line pricing strategy

Reports and supports resolution of product quality and compliance issues.

Proactively drive operations team on planning and forecasting for the product line (Supply Chain Inventory Operations Planning) and ensures appropriate maintenance of Material Master (SAP and/or other business systems).

Conducts gap analysis and forms conclusions for product improvements and rationalization.

R&D Roadmap and Product Development and Introduction (NPDI)

Influences product strategy based on global market, competitor dynamics, and regional-specific variations.

Drives alignment with strategy and goals defined by the business leadership team.

Understands global market dynamics and regional specific variations.

Builds competitor analyses to assess strengths and weaknesses of contending products from customer perspectives.

Conducts and Leads Voice of the Customer and competitor research.

Creates innovative business and market requirements

Monitors and ensures delivery of revenue of NPI per forecasted plan.

Ensures compliance with established processes and guidelines.

Product Management Leadership

Serves as a subject matter authority, drives meaningful Product Management engagement and supports development of junior colleagues.

Role models the company's "4i values" – Integrity, Intensity, Innovation, and Involvement and crafts an environment that encourages others to demonstrate the 4ivalues.

Keys to Success

Education

Bachelor’s degree in the scientific or business field; master’s degree highly desirable - MS, Ph.D., or MBA

Experience

5 years of relevant experience is required, including at least 2 years of prior experience in Product Management.

Experience in Life Sciences, Biotechnology, Pharmaceuticals, Analytical Chemistry, or a related field is strongly preferred.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

​Build Business Strategy and Financial Awareness

Build Market and Competitor Knowledge

Innovation, Technical Knowledge and Execution

Problem-Solving, Critical Thinking, Adaptability, Social Skills, Influential, Prioritization Capabilities

Strong written, interpersonal, and oral communication skills and preferred experience working cross-functionally across many areas and levels of an organization.

Strong commercial competence and ability to drive business results with a focus on taking action

Ability to take projects from strategy to execution with attention to detail and innovative thinking.

Benefits

We offer competitive remuneration, annual incentive plan bonus, healthcare, and a range of employee benefits. Thermo Fisher Scientific offers employment with an innovative, forward-thinking organization, and outstanding career and development prospects. We offer an exciting company culture that stands for integrity, intensity, involvement, and innovation!

Compensation and Benefits

The salary range estimated for this position based in California is $123,800.00–$185,000.00.

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