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Job Description
A career with EMD Performance Materials is an ongoing journey of discovery: our 57000 people are shaping how the world lives works and plays through next generation advancements in healthcare life science and performance materials. For more than 350 years and across the world we have passionately pursued our curiosity to find novel and vibrant ways of enhancing the lives of others. EMD Performance Materials is a business of Merck KGaA Darmstadt Germany.
This role does not offer sponsorship for work authorization. External applicants must be eligible to work in the US.
Your role
At MilliporeSigma we have an exciting opportunity for a Product Manager in the nucleic acid purification portfolio within the LSB organization and the Molecular Reagents and Tools Franchise. This role will drive the analysis of product performance and market knowledge.
- Assess key markets technology trends customer needs target industries target accounts target personas and competitors for franchise
- Identify priority opportunities across workflows and customer segments
- Test and calibrate recommendations based on voice of customer research maintaining close contacts to key opinion leaders and academia while understanding key technology trends and opportunities.
- Combine market opportunities and priorities with deep assessment of portfolio characteristics competitors etc. into implications and direction for franchise strategies
- Monitor and optimize existing product business including understanding sales/growth trends product profitability trends relative investments and forecasts
- Develop additional portfolio recommendations based on existing product performance
- Ensure successful product development and product expansion projects
- Provide product definition product features performance requirements and tradeoffs product value proposition and business case for new product development
- Act as business lead within crossfunctional team on all relevant projects (TDP PDP ADP BD) with focus on project scoping and planning consistent team participation and collaboration management and of critical activities and accountability for driving/ influencing appropriate decisionmaking.
- Assess project team and project direction and escalate concerns as needed for resolution
- Set appropriate direction and priority for new product launch plans for projects within responsibility including assessing critical factors for commercial success of new novel technology/innovation products and extension product launches
- Establish market adoption plans priorities and objectives based on assessment of critical success factors.
- Work closely with crossfunctional teams to achieve key milestones in product development as well as technology and application development including but not solely focused on delivery of ontime product launches
- Partner with Business Development to develop optimal licensing and partnerships
- Partner with Operations/Procurement on make or buy recommendations and find potential sources as needed
- Design and lead efforts with Technical Marketing and appropriate Commercial teams on new product concept development alpha/beta trials product launch and market adoption initiatives
- Provide consistent support for product related initiatives from commercial supply chain legal and others in collaboration with PM Operations and provide appropriate answers and solutions in collaboration with all other internal functions
- Prioritize and manage (with appropriate support from other functions) critical data management and documentation requirements associated with specific products and product families
- Monitor supply chain performance along with PM Operations and interact as needed to maintain industry leading service & quality levels
- Provide guidance from application/ business/ customer perspective as needed to improve/ sustain product supply
- Develop plans of action for customer and commercial implications for in collaboration with other functions in case of supply disruption
- Partner closely with PM Operations Quality and Supply Chain for near and longterm improvement initiatives regular support communications and margin monitoring and improvement
- Conduct regular analysis of portfolio pricing including price position vs competition and across geographies pricing structure and ongoing monitoring of profitability impacts
- Partner with commercial colleagues and pricing teams to ensure pricing enables field sales success by determining optimal catalog prices guidance on appropriate level of pricing / discounting and monitoring of of pricing strategy
- Define product and workflow messaging and positioning for key applications and product types across all platforms and channels including all associated partner portfolios
- Develop core promotional collateral digital content and commercial tools from enduser perspective with holistic value propositions
- Monitor and develop appropriate responses to competitive activities and opportunities
- Partner with Commercial colleagues Marketing Communications and Digital Marketing to ensure optimal sales mix across channels: Account management technical selling digital sales dealer channel and the ebusiness channel
- Partner with Digital marketing to develop web activities tools and content for products
- Provide product application training including competitive responses for all appropriate sales channels
Who You Are:
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelors Degree in Biology Biochemistry Molecular Biology Chemistry or related life science discipline
- 4 years ofprofessional work experience in the Laboratory & Life Science industries
Preferred Qualifications:
- . MBA or PhD
- Demonstrated capability reading technology and market trends and strategically planning future product opportunities
- Experience working across organizational lines to translate market trends and opportunities into financial business plans
- Strong interpersonal and leadership skills
- Experience leading an organization by promoting competency development and inspiring others
- Experience with product management
RSRMS
What we offer: With us there are always opportunities to break new ground. We empower you to fulfil your ambitions and our diverse businesses offer various career moves to seek new horizons. We trust you with responsibility early on and support you to draw your own career map that is responsive to your aspirations and priorities in life. Join us and bring your curiosity to life!
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