Global Product Manager

Description

• Contribute to implementation of strategy and sales targets by managing of existing products and product lines throughout their life cycle
• Execute marketing strategies operationally
• Product management of existing product portfolio
• Manage special client requests for existing product portfolio with the corresponding interfaces and drive them towards execution incl. customer facing communication
• Handle general product line inquiries and issues, such as change notifications, critical quality issues and critical supply disruptions
• Actively drive communication to sales and customers on supply disruptions
• Actively drive and continuously improve the customer change notification process
• Support investment planning and measures of operations by providing necessary deliverables
• Drive risk mitigation activities, e.g. second sourcing strategy, product and packaging improvement
• Bring modifications and structure measures to the product range short term and long term, e.g. life cycle product analysis
• Support new product launches and ensure addition of new products into the systems on time, including the collection of product information, coordination of the internal functions and defining the product/inventory level
• Represent the business interest in internal projects and discussions by bringing the customer view, e.g. e-commerce, labels, packaging, Quality-related projects
• Drive and support various projects to optimize business targets, e.g. predefined strategic initiatives, complex change projects, portfolio analysis, customer complaints, compliance projects
• Optimize the processes towards speed and cost efficiency

Qualifications

Bachelors degree (master degree preferred) in business or natural science (preferred biotechnology biochemistry, pharma or bioinformatics)

Work Experience And Competencies

• Proven track record of managing complex projects including stakeholder management in a matrix environment
• Proven track record of managing high tech business-2-business products and services, preferably in a highly regulated industry
• 4+ years of professional experience within life science, pharmaceutical or data analytics industry: marketing, sales, technical service or some combination thereof
• Excellent verbal and written communication and presentation skills