Global Product Manager

GE Healthcare Life Sciences provides products and services used as tools for biopharmaceutical manufacturing, drug discovery and the latest in cellular technologies, thereby enabling our customers around the world to be more productive, effective and creative. Our motivation is to create better health for more people. Through our five decades of supporting the biopharmaceutical industry and its research partners to become more productive, we are helping to reduce costs, increase access and improve quality in the healthcare system. We use our expertise and know-how in imaginative ways to work with our customers to provide what's needed today and create products and solutions to enable the medical treatments of tomorrow.


We are searching for a commercially experienced Global Product Manager to join the Lab Systems team. The main responsibility is to manage part of the ÄKTA product range over its life cycle in a manner that maximizes the overall return/profit to the company. The role involves interactions with all other functions in the company.

Please send us your application via gecareers.com job nr (1984696) no later than August 25th

Essential responsibilities include:
Develop a product life cycle strategy and recommend investment / discontinuation of product ranges. Manage all aspects of the product(s) life cycle starting with the detailed planning phase (in development) until the product is terminated, including pricing, marketing and supply chain related recommendations. Maximize the company profit over the product(s) entire life cycle.
Ensure product readiness for sale and use including registration, labeling, legal and safety requirements, storage, logistics, technical content of databases and web, and after sales support together w Service. Manage and maintain this information throughout the products life cycle.
Define and recommend value engineering of product(s) redesign, reformulation and repackaging to extend the life cycle. Provide input and prioritization to R&D on requirements for support, product care and research and development projects.
Ensure appropriate inventory and quality control, provide leadership to quality management and ensure competitiveness of the portfolio through proactively making cost reduction recommendations.
Own the overall product development process for new product additions to the portfolio. Create business case and adjust / monitor PFM before and during product development and launch. Prepare and implement product launch plans, coordinating with commercial stakeholders to define go-to-market strategy.
Provide regular sales and profitability forecasts. Support the marketing and sales organization with appropriate actions to ensure maximum return.
Contribute to the annual pricing process by setting list prices and suggest discount levels.

Qualifications/Requirements:
Bachelor's Degree in Engineering/Life Sciences/Biotechnology and MBA or related field
Proven experience in a Life Sciences based business, including solid experience in marketing, sales, or product management.
Experience of customer/market focused activities.
Good interpersonal and communication skills, plus experience of using these skills to participate in and influence cross-functional teams.
EU work permit.

Desired Characteristics:
Sales experience.
Marketing Diploma or equivalent.
Awareness of GEHC product portfolio that serves this market.