Senior Manager, Product Management - Applied Omics

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Senior Manager, Product Management - Applied Omics

R-01365074

Pleasanton, CA

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 day as we enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner, and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve their individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world’s toughest challenges, such as protecting wildlife, ensuring our food is safe, and helping to find cures for cancer.

Our Genetic Sciences Division is at the forefront of innovation in genetic analysis research and clinical applications. The Microarray Business Unit is a key platform within the division. You’ll be part of a division that pioneered several technologies and join an inquisitive, driven team that shares your passion for customer success!

How will you make an impact?

Enable our customers by leading and developing a product management team responsible for an integrated applied omics portfolio spanning reproductive health, agriculture, and human health. Own the Swift Array Studio platform and instrument portfolio strategy, balancing innovation across genomics and emerging omics modalities with lifecycle priorities, operational performance, and profitable global growth.

What will you do?

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of product managers; establish clear priorities, accountability, and an effective portfolio operating cadence.
• Develop and own the multi-year applied omics strategy across reproductive health, agricultural, and human applications, encompassing genomics, epigenomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and future complementary modalities.
• Set integrated roadmaps for instruments, software, applications, workflows, and content on the Swift Array Studio platform, making investment trade-offs across omics modalities, market segments, and regions.
• Own product lifecycle management, including pricing, forecasting, supply and demand, profitability, sustaining programs, cost reduction, capacity, and end-of-life planning.
• Partner with Operations, Manufacturing, Quality, Sourcing, R&D, Finance, and Commercial teams to translate market priorities into executable plans.
• Evaluate the financial and manufacturing impact of portfolio decisions, including customization, production complexity, cost of goods, capacity, utilization, and absorption.
• Drive innovation by translating customer needs into new genomic, epigenomic, transcriptomic, and proteomic content, applications, workflows, and product capabilities, while identifying opportunities to extend successful solutions across markets.
• Segment global applied omics markets by application, customer type, modality, and region; identify growth opportunities and define where Thermo Fisher Scientific can win.
• Assess NGS and other competing or complementary technologies and develop positioning that differentiates the portfolio as genomic and broader omics markets evolve.
• Lead commercialization and portfolio communication, serving as the product champion with internal teams, customers, and industry opinion leaders.
• Travel - Domestic and international travel may be required 25% to 50% of the time.

Education

• A bachelor's degree (B.S./B.A.) in an engineering or scientific field (molecular biology, genetics, bioengineering, biochemistry, or a related discipline preferred) is required.
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• An MBA or advanced scientific degree with biotechnology industry experience is preferred.
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• Experience in genomics or adjacent omics fields and knowledge of microarray and NGS technologies are strongly preferred.

Experience

• 7+ years of product management experience in life sciences, applied omics, biotechnology, or a related industry, including responsibility for a sophisticated product portfolio.
• Demonstrated direct people-management experience leading, coaching, and developing product managers or other professional staff.
• Experience managing lifecycle strategy, pricing, forecasting, supply and demand, profitability, sustaining initiatives, cost reduction, and capacity projects with Operations.
• Experience leading new product development and commercialization across R&D, Commercial, Finance, and Operations in a highly matrixed, global organization.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• Excellent people leadership, communication, and influencing skills, with the ability to align teams around clear portfolio priorities.
• Strong business acumen and judgment for building strategies and making data-driven trade-offs across products, applications, markets, and regions.
• Deep understanding of lifecycle management and manufacturing economics, including product cost, capacity, utilization, supply continuity, and factory absorption.
• Strong financial modeling and analytical skills, including business cases, forecasts, profitability models, and performance metrics.
• Ability to dive deeply into product capabilities, manufacturing processes, customer workflows, customization requirements, omics applications, and regional market needs.
• Strong competitive analysis skills across microarray, NGS, epigenomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, software, lab automation, and related life science technologies.
• Ability to work effectively in a matrix structure and build strong relationships with customers, key opinion leaders, commercial teams, and cross-functional partners.

Compensation and Benefits

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