Associate Product Manager - Life Sciences (m/f/d) - 1 year project

Barkey GmbH & Co. KG; Griesheim; Hybrid; EUR 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Life insurance

Occupational pension scheme

Employee Assistance Program

Corporate benefits platform

Employee stock purchase plan

Job summary

Barkey GmbH & Co. KG At Azenta invites an Associate Product Manager for life sciences to join the Consumables and Instrument Division. The role centers on devices for the medical sector, guiding development, GTM strategies, and successful launches.

The position is based in Griesheim near Darmstadt with 20% home office flexibility and travel up to 20%. It is a 1-year fix-term project requiring strong analytical skills and English proficiency.

Qualifications

• Scientific or engineering degree; PhD or MBA is a plus.
• Experience in clinical IVD or laboratory instrumentation from PM/Marketing or R&D.
• Ability to travel up to 20%.
• Fluent English; a second language is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Act as voice of customer in interdisciplinary project teams from requirements to launch.
• Manage product launches via stage gate development and introduction process.
• Develop market entry strategies including pricing to hit margins and revenue goals.
• Produce business cases for product opportunities to support investments.
• Collaborate on marketing and launch plans and train sales and support teams.
• Coordinate with Marketing to create timely marketing and technical literature.
• Provide strategic input on key clinical conditions for Azenta focus.
• Maintain product portfolio data and monitor customer satisfaction and competition.
• Build key metrics to measure success across areas.

Skills

Product management

Marketing

R&D

Requirements gathering

Cross-functional collaboration

Customer focus

Education

Scientific degree

Engineering degree

PhD

MBA

Job description

Barkey GmbH & Co. KG At Azenta, new ideas, new technologies and new ways of thinking are driving our future. Our customer focussed culture encourages employees to embrace innovation and challenge the status quo with novel thinking and collaborative work relationships. All we accomplish is grounded in our core values of Customer Focus, Achievement, Accountability, Teamwork, Employee Value and Integrity

Job Title

Associate Product Manager - Life Sciences (m/f/d) - 1 year project

Job Description

We have an exciting new opportunity for an Associate Product Manager in the Consumables and Instrument Division with a focus on devices for the medical sector. Our Consumables and Instruments Product Management team at Azenta works cross functionally to actively drive the product development, defines go-to market strategies, and supports marketing and sales to enable effective product launches and budget achievement. This role will be based in our office in Griesheim (near Darmstadt), combined with 20% home office flexibility and business travel. The role will be project related / 1 year fix-term.

What You’ll Do

• Work in interdisciplinary project teams as the voice of customer throughout all project phases from requirements setting to the launch
• Manage product launches defined by a stage gate driven Product Development & Introduction process.
• Assess market requirements and user needs and develop market entry strategies for new products including pricing strategy to ensure delivering on margin and revenue goals
• Producing business cases for product opportunities as a basis for investment
• Help developing marketing and launch plans in collaboration with product marketing managers including product training for sales and others departments
• Work with Marketing to produce marketing and technical literature on time and in budget
• Support with strategic input regarding key clinical conditions that Azenta should focus on, based on our core competencies and based on the capabilities of currently available solutions
• Product Maintenance: ongoing care and support of product line, including monitoring customer satisfaction, competitor activity, new customer needs and sales support materials, product changes and maintaining a business intelligence database for the product portfolio
• Develop and maintain key metrics to measure success in all responsible areas
• Actively champion and demonstrate the Azenta Values of Customer Focus, Achievement, Teamwork, Accountability, Employee Value, and Integrity in all activities

What You Will Bring

• Scientific degree, or Engineering degree with experience in the clinical IVD sector, PhD and/or MBA is a plus
• Some working experience in laboratory instrumentation industry (clinical; IVD), either from a Product Management/Marketing or R&D perspective
• Ability to travel up to 20%
• Ability to communicate effectively in a global organization
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills
• Fluent written and spoken English, good knowledge of a second language is a plus
• Energetic, pragmatic, business driven
• Organized and independent
• Team player

Our Offer

Become part of a company that makes a positive contribution to launching groundbreaking scientific developments and therapies.

Flexible working hours

Take advantage of the operational opportunities in a growing, modern and innovative company within the health care/ life science industry.

Experience an intensive exchange of experiences and a close cooperation in a worldwide network with our customers, friends and partners.

30 days of vacation.

Positive corporate culture and practiced teamwork across all locations.

Individual development opportunities of your international competencies and language skills.

You will participate in numerous corporate benefits, such as:

• Life insurance
• Occupational pension scheme
• Employee Assistance Program
• Corporate benefits platform
• Employee stock purchase plan to acquire company shares
• Contact Barkey GmbH & Co. KG an Azenta Life Sciences Company Im Leuscherpark 2 64347 Griesheim [e-mail]

If any applicant is unable to complete an application or respond to a job opening because of a disability, please email at [e-mail] for assistance.

Azenta is an Equal Opportunity Employer. This company considers candidates regardless of race, color, age, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status.

Azenta is a market leader in automated bio sample management solutions and multiomics services across areas such as drug development, clinical and advanced cell therapies for the industry's top pharmaceutical, biotech, academic and healthcare institutions globally.

We provide unparalleled capabilities with our lab analysis, sample management and storage services, informatics software, and consumables, with the largest installed base managing over 1 billion samples globally.

As a global leader in R&D multiomics services, Azenta Life Sciences, leads the way in providing superior data quality with unparalleled technical support to enable researchers around the world to advance their scientific discoveries faster than ever before.

To view more job openings please visit our career site at Careers | Azenta Life Sciences