Senior Product Manager, Validation Services

Cytiva; Marlborough (MA); On-site; USD 128,000 - 195,000; Full time

Job summary

Cytiva in Marlborough, MA, seeks a Senior Product Manager for Validation Services to shape a global services portfolio. You’ll translate customer, market, technical, and financial evidence into strategy, differentiated offers, and commercial actions within the Filtration portfolio.

You will lead cross-functional initiatives, own business cases, and manage lifecycle decisions to maximize value and customer outcomes across Cytiva Filtration.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in business, marketing, life sciences, engineering, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
• 10+ years of progressive experience in product management, product marketing, or adjacent commercial roles, including at least 7 years with direct product-management accountability for strategy, lifecycle management, commercialization, and business performance.
• Experience leading product-line or portfolio strategy and lifecycle management for complex technical products or services, including opportunity assessment, roadmap development, commercialization, optimization, and retirement.
• Experience developing business cases, forecasts, value propositions, and pricing or packaging recommendations using revenue, margin, cost-to-serve, capacity, or resource trade-off analysis.
• Experience leading global cross-functional initiatives with commercial, technical, operational, finance, and quality stakeholders in a matrixed organization

Responsibilities

• Generate and lead voice-of-customer research, workflow observation, win/loss analysis, usage analysis, and market assessment across regions.
• Develop the roadmap and prioritize opportunities; invest, test, scale, maintain, partner, defer, or retire offerings for high-value needs.
• Define value propositions, service packages, positioning, launch plans, and tools that drive adoption across the Filtration portfolio.
• Develop forecasts and recommendations for pricing, packaging, and discounts while evaluating value, revenue, margin, cost-to-serve, and capacity.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to set milestones, owners, risks, dependencies, and performance measures using DBS/Lean methods.

Skills

Voice-of-customer research

Market analysis

Cross-functional leadership

Portfolio strategy

Lifecycle management

Business cases

Global initiatives

Education

Bachelor's degree in business, marketing, life sciences, engineering

Job description

Bring more to life.Are you ready to accelerate your potential and make a real difference within life sciences, diagnostics and biotechnology?

Bring more to life.Are you ready to accelerate your potential and make a real difference within life sciences, diagnostics and biotechnology? At Cytiva, one of Danaher’s 15+ operating companies, our work saves lives—and we’re all united by a shared commitment to innovate for tangible impact. You’ll thrive in a culture of belonging where you and your unique viewpoint matter. And by harnessing Danaher’s system of continuous improvement, you help turn ideas into impact – innovating at the speed of life. Working at Cytiva means being at the forefront of providing new solutions to transform human health. Our incredible customers undertake life‑saving activities ranging from fundamental biological research to developing innovative vaccines, new medicines, and cell and gene therapies. At Cytiva you will be able to continuously improve yourself and us – working on challenges that truly matter with people that care for each other, our customers, and their patients. Take your next step to an altogether life‑changing career. Learn about the Danaher Business System which makes everything possible.

The Senior Product Manager, Validation Services is responsible for shaping global services portfolio that helps life‑sciences customers generate the evidence needed to adopt and use Cytiva Filtration solutions with confidence. The role converts customer, market, technical, operatational, and financial evidence into portfolio strategy, lifecyle decisions, differentiated offers, and commercial actions that improve customer outcomes and create value across the broader Filtration portfolio. This position reports to the Senior Director, Filtration Customer Success Portfolio, and is part of the Filtration Customer Success team located in Marlborough, Massachusetts. This will be an onsite role.

What You Will Do

• Generate customer and market evidence: lead voice‑of‑customer research, workflow observation, win/loss analysis, usage analysis, and market assessment across regions; convert the findings into recommendations that improve adoption and confident use of Cytiva Filtration solutions
• Set portfolio strategy and lifecycle priorities: Develop the roadmap, size and compare opportunities, and recommend where to invest, test, scale, maintain, partner, defer, or retire offerings so resources are focused on the highest‑value customer and business needs.
• Translate customer needs and technical capabilities into differentiated offers: Define value propositions, service packages, positioning, launch plans, and commercial tools that support Validation Services adoption and value creation across the broader Filtration portfolio.
• Own business cases and portfolio economics: Develop forecasts and recommendations for pricing, packaging, discounts, and free‑of‑charge service decsisions while evaluating customer value, revenue, margin, cost‑to‑serve, capacity, quality, and resource trade‑offs.
• Drive cross functional execution and continuous improvement: Work with commercial, operations, project management, quality, R&D, finance, Filtration product management, and customer‑facing technical teams to establish milestones, owners, risks, dependencies, and performance measures that protect claims, timelines, customer commitments, and sustained improvement through DBS/Lean methods.

Who You Are

• Bachelor’s degree in business, marketing, life sciences, engineering, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
• 10+ years of progressive experience in product management, product marketing, or adjacent commercial roles, including at least 7 years with direct product‑management accountability for strategy, lifecycle management, commercializtaion, and business performance.
• Experience leading product‑line or portfolio strategy and lifecycle management for complex technical products or services, including opportunity assessment, roadmap development, commercialization, optimization, and retirement.
• Experience developing business cases, forecasts, value propositions, and pricing or packaging recommendations using revenue, margin, cost‑to‑serve, capacity, or resource trade‑off analysis.
• Experience leading global cross‑functional initiatives with commercial, technical, operational, finance, and qualty stakeholders in a matrixed organziation

Travel, Motor Vehicle Record & Physical/Environment Requirements

• Ability to travel up to 30%, including international travel

It would be a plus if you also possess previous experience in:

• Life sciences, bioprocessing, filtration, validation, regulated services, or another technically complex and quality‑sensitive environment.
• Building and scaling a global service or combined product‑and‑service offering through development, commercialization, and lifecycle management
• Applying the Danaher Business System, Lean, or comparable continuous‑improvement methods, including direct observation of work, structured problem solving, standard work, and visual project management.

Cytiva, a Danaher operating company, offers a broad array of comprehensive, competitive benefit programs that add value to our lives. Whether it’s a health care program or paid time off, our programs contribute to life beyond the job. Check out our benefits at Danaher Benefits Info. The salary range for this role is $127,500 - $195,000 USD. This is the range that we in good faith believe is the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting. This range may be modified in the future. This job is also eligible for bonus/incentive pay. We offer comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees. Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company’s sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law. Join our winning team today. Together, we’ll accelerate the real‑life impact of tomorrow’s science and technology. We partner with customers across the globe to help them solve their most complex challenges, architecting solutions that bring the power of science to life. For more information, visit www.danaher.com. Danaher Corporation and all Danaher Companies are committed to equal opportunity regardless of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, marital status, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or other characteristics protected by law. The U.S. EEO posters are available here. For candidates who are based outside of New York City or who are applying for roles outside of New York City, for more information about conditions of any job offer please click here. We comply with federal and state disability laws and make reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact:1-202-419-7762 or [e-mail].