Global Product manager

GE Healthcare Life Sciences provides products and services used as tools for biopharmaceutical manufacturing, drug discovery and the latest in cellular technologies, thereby enabling our customers around the world to be more productive, effective and creative. Our motivation is to create better health for more people. Through our five decades of supporting the biopharmaceutical industry and its research partners to become more productive, we are helping to reduce costs, increase access and improve quality in the healthcare system. We use our expertise and know-how in imaginative ways to work with our customers to provide what's needed today and create products and solutions to enable the medical treatments of tomorrow.

This is an exciting opportunity to join our GEHC Life Sciences team as Global Product Manager. He/she will be responsible for managing a part of the laboratory scale protein preparation and product range purification over its life cycle in a manner that maximizes the overall return and profit to the company.

Essential Responsibilities:
The Global Product Manager will develop product lifecycle strategy for this portfolio, drive lifecycle management activities and be accountable for the development of new products. As Global Product Manager you should have strong ability to influence others, engage engineers and drive towards business and technical decisions. In this role you must possess business acumen as well as technical knowledge. You will build products and solutions from existing ideas, and help to develop new ideas based on your industry experience and your contact with customers and sales. You should have big-picture vision and drive to make that vision a reality. You will connect with customers to understand their issues and find innovative solutions for the broader market.

Essential responsibilities:
.Develop product lifecycle strategy and recommend investment/discontinuation of product ranges; manage all aspects of product(s) life cycle starting with detailed planning phase (in development) until product is terminated, including pricing, marketing and supply chain related recommendations
.Ensure product readiness for sale and use including registration, labeling, legal and safety requirements, storage, logistics, technical content of databases and web, QC and after sales support preparation
.Strategic and tactical supply chain management of existing products to market for multiple customers and applications; ensure appropriate inventory and quality control, provide leadership to quality complaint management
.Own overall product development process for new product additions to the portfolio; create business case and adjust/monitor financial models before and during product development and launch; prepare and implement product launch plans, coordinating with commercial stakeholders to define go-to-market strategy
.Provide regular sales and profitability forecasts
.Develop strategic and tactical marketing recommendations to product and segment marketing roles to enable effective marketing plans for the overall portfolio
.Provide input and prioritization to R&D on requirements for research and development projects
.Manage and maintain integrity of the commercial product information held within IT systems/databases/web
.Motivate/educate functional teams as to how to operate in support of this portfolio

Qualifications/Requirements:
.BA/BSc; Marketing or Science based, PhD or equivalent experience in a relevant field of research preferred
.Proven experience in Life Sciences based business, including solid experience in marketing or product management
.Experience of customer