Life Sciences Product Manager
- Recruiter
- Confidential
- Location
- Camberley
- Salary
- Competitive
- Posted
- 21 Jul 2021
- Closes
- 18 Aug 2021
- Sectors
- Travel & Tourism
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Life Sciences Product Manager
Camberley, Surrey
Are you a Life Sciences Product expert? Are you an experienced portfolio manager who has demonstrable experience of meeting client requirements? If so, read on!
About Us
We are Novacyt, a rapidly growing diagnostics group specialising in infectious diseases. We have several successful brands and serve a large global customer base, from hospitals to large corporates.
We are now looking for a Life Sciences Product Manager to join our team on a full-time basis working 37.5 hours per week.
The Benefits
- Competitive salary
- 25 days' annual leave
- Ability to buy and sell annual leave
- Cycle to work scheme
- Refer a friend scheme
- Life assurance
- Private medical insurance
- Group pension scheme
It is an exciting time to join our team as we are making huge leaps in the fight against COVID-19 and have recently been awarded a Breakthrough of the Year award at the European Mediscience Awards 2020.
We are the best in the world at what we do. If you are looking to learn, grow and succeed as part of a passionate team who are eager to make a difference, we want to hear from you!
The Role
As the Product Manager for Life Science Solutions portfolio, this individual will be the expert on all aspects of this market area. This includes, but not limited to, a complete understanding of competitive landscape, customer requirements and their geographical variances, and an excellent understanding of the challenges in this field.
This individual will be expected to build on the foundation of success for Novacyt and develop a strong market-viable pipeline of products to address the ongoing need for testing for the allocated product groups in the industrial microbiology and clinical workflow arenas. This individual will also be responsible for the long-term success of the business in this application area by delivering a diversified portfolio for Life Science that meets customer requirements and establishes Novacyt as leaders in the field.
Additionally, your role will involve:
- Establish and maintain a strong global understanding of the life sciences markets.
- Formulate marketing strategy for product positioning, market penetration and customer satisfaction for the allocated product groups in close collaboration with the commercial team.
- Utilise market research to establish priority markets and identify opportunities for growth.
- Utilise business data to assess the success of activities relative to targets, pro-actively making recommendation and instigating actions, as necessary.
- Collaborate with marcoms to produce clear and impactful marketing content that our commercial team can use to sell effectively.
- Design and deliver training to our commercial organization, including tailored support packages for our distributor network.
- Act as the primary point of technical sign-off for all marketing content delivered to our customers,
- Work with the leadership of the commercial team to ensure that training is being implemented effectively by the sales and sales applications teams in the field.
- Attend key customer meetings with the sales team to provide support, commercial presentations (as required) and gain customer insights.
- Provide regular updates on competitor positioning.
- Develop KOL network specific to life sciences on these relationships to achieve early adoption of new products and technologies.
- Facilitate and manage research collaborations and partnerships.
About You
To be considered as a Life Sciences Product Manager, you will need:
- 5+ years' experience in standalone product management or strategic marketing roles, preferably within a field relevant to microbiology (but open to other areas)
- Good knowledge and understanding of Industrial microbiology techniques and laboratory workflow.
- Relevant scientific qualification
- Proven track record in setting successful portfolio strategies
- Experience in KOL development and management
- Ability to work effectively within cross functional teams
- Willingness to travel for customer meetings, sales support, and relevant marketing activities.
- Track record demonstrating excellent competence, integrity, and communication skills.
- Ability to independently create quality solutions to problems and implement these efficiently and to a high standard of quality.
- Exceptional communication skills with KOLs customers and technical and non-technical team members
Webrecruit and Novacyt are equal opportunities employers, value diversity and are strongly committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all employees and all applicants for employment. Equal opportunities are the only acceptable way to conduct business and we believe that the more inclusive our environments are, the better our work will be.
So, if you are seeking an exciting new challenge as Life Sciences Product Manager, please apply via the button shown. This vacancy is being advertised by Webrecruit. The services advertised by Webrecruit are those of an Employment Agency
Camberley, Surrey
Are you a Life Sciences Product expert? Are you an experienced portfolio manager who has demonstrable experience of meeting client requirements? If so, read on!
About Us
We are Novacyt, a rapidly growing diagnostics group specialising in infectious diseases. We have several successful brands and serve a large global customer base, from hospitals to large corporates.
We are now looking for a Life Sciences Product Manager to join our team on a full-time basis working 37.5 hours per week.
The Benefits
- Competitive salary
- 25 days' annual leave
- Ability to buy and sell annual leave
- Cycle to work scheme
- Refer a friend scheme
- Life assurance
- Private medical insurance
- Group pension scheme
It is an exciting time to join our team as we are making huge leaps in the fight against COVID-19 and have recently been awarded a Breakthrough of the Year award at the European Mediscience Awards 2020.
We are the best in the world at what we do. If you are looking to learn, grow and succeed as part of a passionate team who are eager to make a difference, we want to hear from you!
The Role
As the Product Manager for Life Science Solutions portfolio, this individual will be the expert on all aspects of this market area. This includes, but not limited to, a complete understanding of competitive landscape, customer requirements and their geographical variances, and an excellent understanding of the challenges in this field.
This individual will be expected to build on the foundation of success for Novacyt and develop a strong market-viable pipeline of products to address the ongoing need for testing for the allocated product groups in the industrial microbiology and clinical workflow arenas. This individual will also be responsible for the long-term success of the business in this application area by delivering a diversified portfolio for Life Science that meets customer requirements and establishes Novacyt as leaders in the field.
Additionally, your role will involve:
- Establish and maintain a strong global understanding of the life sciences markets.
- Formulate marketing strategy for product positioning, market penetration and customer satisfaction for the allocated product groups in close collaboration with the commercial team.
- Utilise market research to establish priority markets and identify opportunities for growth.
- Utilise business data to assess the success of activities relative to targets, pro-actively making recommendation and instigating actions, as necessary.
- Collaborate with marcoms to produce clear and impactful marketing content that our commercial team can use to sell effectively.
- Design and deliver training to our commercial organization, including tailored support packages for our distributor network.
- Act as the primary point of technical sign-off for all marketing content delivered to our customers,
- Work with the leadership of the commercial team to ensure that training is being implemented effectively by the sales and sales applications teams in the field.
- Attend key customer meetings with the sales team to provide support, commercial presentations (as required) and gain customer insights.
- Provide regular updates on competitor positioning.
- Develop KOL network specific to life sciences on these relationships to achieve early adoption of new products and technologies.
- Facilitate and manage research collaborations and partnerships.
About You
To be considered as a Life Sciences Product Manager, you will need:
- 5+ years' experience in standalone product management or strategic marketing roles, preferably within a field relevant to microbiology (but open to other areas)
- Good knowledge and understanding of Industrial microbiology techniques and laboratory workflow.
- Relevant scientific qualification
- Proven track record in setting successful portfolio strategies
- Experience in KOL development and management
- Ability to work effectively within cross functional teams
- Willingness to travel for customer meetings, sales support, and relevant marketing activities.
- Track record demonstrating excellent competence, integrity, and communication skills.
- Ability to independently create quality solutions to problems and implement these efficiently and to a high standard of quality.
- Exceptional communication skills with KOLs customers and technical and non-technical team members
Webrecruit and Novacyt are equal opportunities employers, value diversity and are strongly committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all employees and all applicants for employment. Equal opportunities are the only acceptable way to conduct business and we believe that the more inclusive our environments are, the better our work will be.
So, if you are seeking an exciting new challenge as Life Sciences Product Manager, please apply via the button shown. This vacancy is being advertised by Webrecruit. The services advertised by Webrecruit are those of an Employment Agency