Thermo Fisher Scientific

Senior Manager, Global Product Owner

Posted on: 30 Jan 2021

South San Francisco, CA

Job Description

When youre part of the team at Thermo Fisher Scientific, youll do important work, like helping customers in finding cures for cancer, protecting the environment or making sure our food is safe. Your work will have real-world impact, and youll be supported in achieving your career goals.

Location/Division Specific Information
This position is located within the Genetic Testing Solutions Group part of the Genetic Sciences Division at Thermo Fisher.

How will you make an impact?
The objective of this position is to manage a portfolio of on-market products that provide value-added growth for the Clinical Business Unit in the Genetic Testing Solutions (GTS) Group of Thermo Fisher Scientific. The Sr Manager, Global Product Owner is accountable for the overall product health of a growing portfolio of on-market products for clinical applications while acting as the liaison between business functions including Manufacturing, Quality, Regulatory, Clinical, Market Development, R&D, Finance, Program Management to drive product growth and serve customers globally. The Sr Manager, Global Product Owner is a key member of the Clinical Product Management organization and is responsible for driving and executing programs and sustaining activities to support product adoption, improve financial performance, and reduce risk.

What will you do?

* Manage product lifecycle, setting organizational cadence for retirement, refresh or enhancement of existing products in alignment with the Clinical Business Unit strategy
* Establish KPIs and proactively monitor product uptake in the market and the overall health of the product portfolio
* Develop and track multi-year product health plan for the product family
* Use strategic thinking and financial justification to prioritize initiatives to improve product portfolio, reduce risk and meet financial goals in alignment with product health needs
* Drive awareness of issues and opportunities to improve product health and become an advocate for product improvements
* Drive organizational alignment by providing cross functional leadership between business partners to support product objectives
* Represent Product Management in Business Unit and Sustaining operating mechanisms
* Analyze, quality, manufacturing and post-market data and report out to senior management or other business partners about overall product health
* Develop deep understanding of clinical customer needs and segments, competitive landscape and regulatory processes

How will you get here?

* Bachelors degree required
* MBA preferred

Experience

* 3-5 years experience in Product Management preferred
* Experience working in the healthcare industry and solid understanding of regulatory processes
* Experience in product development process

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

* Detail oriented, analytical, and data driven
* Comfortable with making decisions with some level of uncertainty
* Demonstrates a sense of urgency, optimism and a can do attitude
* Ability to influence and build relationships across different business functions and business units
* Passionate about challenges, problem solving, and learning new things
* Outstanding written and verbal communication skills are required

At Thermo Fisher Scientific, each one of our 75,000 extraordinary minds has a unique story to tell. Join us and contribute to our singular missionenabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer.

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Thermo Fisher Scientific is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.

Thermo Fisher Scientific

Waltham, MA

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE: TMO) is the world leader in serving science, with revenues of more than $24 billion and approximately 70,000 employees globally. Our mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We help our customers accelerate life sciences research, solve complex analytical challenges, improve patient diagnostics, deliver medicines to market and increase laboratory productivity. Through our premier brands - Thermo Scientific, Applied Biosystems, Invitrogen, Fisher Scientific and Unity Lab Services - we offer an unmatched combination of innovative technologies, purchasing convenience and comprehensive services.

To serve science, Thermo Fisher Scientific needs to stay ahead of it. To be the world leader in serving science, we need to anticipate (pre-empt) customer needs. We need to constantly think about advancing science, so customers have the freedom to be bolder and more innovative – we are committed to pushing science and technology a step beyond where it is today.