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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.

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Are you passionate about advancing genetic science? Want to drive and run multi-million-dollar instrument systems? In this role, you will lead low-throughput Capillary Electrophoresis Instruments that are used across the globe from forensics to clinical and biopharmaceutical development. You will own all product management responsibilities for the portfolio, such as product definition, positioning, pricing and product lifecycle management. This position reports to the Product Management Leader of CE Instruments and sits within the Genetic Sciences Division team at Thermo Fisher. The ideal candidate would be located in Pleasanton, CA.

How will you make an impact?
Lead revenue, margin and pricing for on-market CE instrument product lines; Update and present forecasts regularly to management, finance, and manufacturing teams. Analyze market trends, customer requirements and competitive strategy, and find opportunities for growing customer and business value through product differentiation. Lead new product development process from concept through commercialization, including VOC research, definition of market opportunity, customer, product requirements and value proposition, formulating Go-to-Market strategy including commercialization strategy, public presentations, competitive analysis, positioning, and training service, support and sales teams.

A Day in the Life

• Collaborate with partners to define and implement growth strategy for the product line
• Lead product definition teams for NPIs, defining critical product requirement documents with prioritized features and corresponding business or financial justification
• Lead total product lifecycle, setting cadence for retirement, refresh or improvement of existing products
• Understand, follow and be accountable for business aspects of Product Commercialization Process (PCP) for products
• Assess and evaluate competitive landscape - including product offerings
• Monetize products through direct and indirect economic business models
• Market analysis, value propositions and forecasting for new products
• Partner with Marketing to define global launch plans that include regulatory strategy, competitive analysis, forecasting, pricing, positioning and training of internal groups
• Set pricing to meet revenue and profitability goals
• Develop customer oriented sales tools and collateral in partnership with market development
• Develop a detailed knowledge of target customer segments, markets and the competition

• Bachelor's degree in Biology, Biochemistry, Science OR business, marketing, or related degree. MBA is a plus

• A minimum of 3-5 years of product management experience in life sciences industry is required
• Ability to synthesize and integrate customer insights, draw conclusions/implications, and translate information into product requirements, portfolio strategies, and business recommendations
• Is customer-centric and keenly aware of markets, trends and competitors

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to interpret and summarize results in a clear, concise and accurate manner
• Teamwork and Collaboration skills, ability to work with colleagues within and across organizations
• Organized with strong project management skills
• Initiative to drive fact-based decisions, projects and deliver results - demonstrate a 'can-do' demeanor
• Enthusiasm for learning and developing new skills
• Stretches across borders, breaks silos and builds effective partnerships with customers and colleagues

• 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