Job Description
The Director, Product Management – OPUS® PPC (Pre-Packed Column) will lead the Product Management team and own strategy, commercialization, lifecycle performance, and business results for the OPUS® portfolio. This leader will drive platform growth, digital service leadership, customer design-in, operational execution, and talent development.
Key Responsibilities
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the Product Management team and own end-to-end lifecycle management for the OPUS® pre-packed chromatography portfolio, including strategy, roadmap, segmentation, growth priorities, and AOP.
- Set long-term business strategy and tactics with the OPUS® business unit team across product development, pricing, positioning, marketing, manufacturing readiness, cost reduction, and portfolio investments.
- Drive commercialization, customer adoption, and design-in conversion through value proposition, sales enablement, field support, competitive guidance, and effective customer-facing collateral.
- Lead cross-functional teams to develop and launch customer-driven new products supported by sound business cases, clear execution plans, and measurable business outcomes.
- Drive platform innovation and digital service leadership, including configurator enhancements, specification automation, and data-enabled customer experience.
- Integrate and harmonize application data, performance insights, design rules, and customer-use learnings to support design-in from process development through commercial manufacturing.
- Partner with Commercial to translate customer input, opportunity funnel, and pipeline data into product and revenue forecasts that support demand planning, manufacturing readiness, and revenue growth.
- Track and improve business performance metrics, including revenue, funnel, margin, complaints, quality, on-time delivery, customer adoption, and continuous improvement priorities.
- Partner with Marketing, Operations, Quality, R&D, IT, and other cross-functional leaders to execute go-to-market programs, strengthen the customer opportunity funnel, improve delivery and quality, reduce complaints, and support QMS priorities.
- Serve as the customer advocate and internal product champion while identifying, developing, and retaining top Product Management talent to build a world-class team.
- A minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in a scientific or engineering discipline; MBA or advanced technical degree preferred.
- 12+ years of experience in product management, portfolio strategy, commercialization, or business leadership in bioprocessing, chromatography, life sciences tools, or related markets.
- Demonstrated ability to lead complex platform strategy, digital transformation, customer adoption, and cross-functional execution.
- 7+ years of direct report management experience with proven ability to lead and develop product management talent in a fast-paced technical business.
- Strong business acumen, analytical capability, executive communication, and stakeholder influence across Commercial, Operations, R&D, Quality, Finance, and IT.
- Willingness to travel globally up to 25%.
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