NGS Portfolio Leader: Strategy & Growth

ThermoFisher Scientific; Carlsbad (CA); On-site; USD 155,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical plan

Dental plan

Vision plan

Tuition reimbursement

PTO 120 hours

Paid holidays

Parental leave

ESPP

Job summary

Thermo Fisher Scientific, based in California, is seeking a Senior Product Manager for the NGS applications portfolio. This role leads strategy, roadmaps, and lifecycle management across research, translational, and clinical applications, coordinating with R&D, Bioinformatics, and Commercial teams to translate customer needs into differentiated NGS solutions.

The position requires strong strategic product management, deep NGS knowledge, and the ability to drive cross-functional execution in a

Qualifications

• Minimum of 8 years of related industry experience in product management, strategic marketing, or related roles within genomics, molecular diagnostics, biotechnology, or life sciences.
• Proven success managing NGS, genomics, or molecular diagnostics products or portfolios through the full product lifecycle.
• Strong understanding of NGS technologies, workflows, and applications, including sample preparation, target enrichment, sequencing, bioinformatics, and data analysis.
• Strong understanding of the NGS market, competitive landscape, customer workflows, and emerging technology and application trends.

Responsibilities

• Own the strategy, multi-year roadmap, and lifecycle management for the NGS assay and content portfolio.
• Provide leadership across matrixed teams supporting the NGS portfolio, establishing priorities, aligning stakeholders, and driving accountability for key initiatives.
• Identify and evaluate new application areas and growth opportunities based on unmet customer needs, market trends, emerging technologies, competitive intelligence, and business strategy.
• Develop a deep understanding of NGS customer workflows and identify opportunities to deliver differentiated solutions across research, translational, and clinical applications.
• Translate Voice of Customer and market insights into product requirements, roadmap priorities, and strategic investments.
• Lead market assessments and competitive analyses to understand market dynamics, emerging applications, technology trends, and opportunities for portfolio expansion.
• Define product requirements and lead cross-functional execution of new products, assay and content expansions, workflow improvements, and lifecycle enhancements.
• Partner closely with R&D and Bioinformatics to evaluate technical feasibility, establish product requirements, and bring differentiated NGS solutions to market.
• Drive portfolio prioritization and investment recommendations by balancing customer value, market opportunity, technical feasibility, business impact, and organizational capacity.
• Partner across business units to develop integrated NGS workflow solutions spanning sample preparation, assays and content, sequencing, software, and data analysis.
• Build relationships with key customers and scientific stakeholders to understand evolving NGS workflows, unmet needs, and emerging applications and incorporate these insights into portfolio strategy.
• Partner with Commercial and Business Development teams to identify and develop strategic growth opportunities, key customer collaborations, and partnerships.
• Partner with Commercial and Marketing to develop go-to-market strategies, product positioning, pricing recommendations, and customer adoption plans.
• Support portfolio planning, business case development, revenue forecasting, demand planning, and investment prioritization.
• Monitor portfolio performance, including revenue, growth, profitability, customer adoption, and other key business metrics, and develop actions to improve business performance.
• Serve as the Product Management subject matter expert for the NGS portfolio, providing strategic guidance to Commercial and cross-functional stakeholders on product capabilities, customer requirements, market dynamics, and portfolio priorities.
• Communicate product strategy, roadmap, portfolio performance, investment recommendations, and key risks to Product Management and business leadership.
• Drive continuous improvement across the portfolio and establish scalable approaches to product and content lifecycle management.

Skills

NGS

Genomics

Product management

Strategic marketing

Cross-functional leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree

Advanced degree preferred (Ph.D./M.S./MBA)

Job description

Thermo Fisher Scientific, based in California, is seeking a Senior Product Manager for the NGS applications portfolio. This role leads strategy, roadmaps, and lifecycle management across research, translational, and clinical applications, coordinating with R&D, Bioinformatics, and Commercial teams to translate customer needs into differentiated NGS solutions.

The position requires strong strategic product management, deep NGS knowledge, and the ability to drive cross-functional execution in a