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The PM has the mandate to take data-driven decisions relevant for their product portfolio from cradle to grave as its strongest expert and advocate. The PM must ensure ongoing commercial competitiveness and business success of their product portfolio by addressing customer needs through consolidation, integration, prioritization of customer voices & future trends, developing and executing a comprehensive portfolio strategy whilst driving its continuous improvement. This is a strategic customer-facing role who interacts on eye level with key customers and stakeholders.Main Responsibilities & Tasks:\nArticulate, communicate and execute product vision, strategy, and roadmap in alignment with company goals and business priorities, constantly applying feedback to deliver on key expectations\nInfluence the decision-making process for all product-related decisions, proactively anticipating and addressing critical issues\nEmbrace change and drive organizational agility by adapting to evolving market dynamics, customer needs, and competitive pressures\nLeverage intel on customer workflows & applications, market research, competitive landscape, industry trends and emerging technologies, validate such intel with first-hand interactions with key customers to identify unmet needs and market opportunities\nDerive from customer needs & markets trends sound business cases to drive critical decisions and align key stakeholders around them, also validating important reviews with them whenever appropriate\nChampion own product portfolio both internally and externally, interacting with key customers and acting upon their feedback, building relationships with KOLs in the most appropriate forums to enhance Sartorius' reputation and credibility\nGuide product from concept to market, leading cross-functional teams and ensuring it meets customer needs and achieves business objectives\nLead product development to prioritize and develop new product offerings for product portfolio without direct authority, balancing multiple priorities to meet requirements and deadlines between short-term urgencies and long-term market evolution. Provide deep understanding of the product and essential requirements for the connectivity required to integrate into relevant unit operations within the workflow. In case of complex customers' questions from the sales team the PM cannot personally answer, act as entry point for PD to provide technical clarification.\nDevelop value propositions, unique selling points and price positioning for product portfolio, and ensure that they are properly communicated to the market\nGuide Operations on expected volumes and set margin expectations for product portfolio, provide guidance on vision of market, forecasted evolution of customer base including need for regionalization, give input on competitors' operational performance as market benchmark. Ensure key info on exceptions to product's normal trend (e.g. accelerated marketing campaign, sales push initiative, product phasing out, a sizable order not yet in the pipeline, in general anything that cannot be inferred by Ops from the past) are timely channeled to Ops.\nLeverage own deep understanding of the technology behind the product and of its applications to develop solutions, adapting them to changing circumstances based on customer needs and market dynamics in order to maintain a competitive advantage\nManage product lifecycle from cradle to grave, closely monitoring product performance, leveraging customers' feedback and data to identify areas for improvement and optimization in each stage\nQualification & Skills:\nMaster's degree in Business, Marketing, Engineering, Life Science or a related field\nSeasoned professional, minimum 8 years of professional experience in Life Science, of which at least 2 years in a complex customer-facing role, ideally in sales or within a customer in the pharma industry; a major plus is having meaningful experiences across different functions (PD, Ops, Sales, Marketing etc.)\nRole-model leader and team player able to rally all relevant parties to focus on key priorities, bringing diverse teams on the same page and facilitating cross-functional collaboration\nOutstanding presence, influencing and presentation skills to engage with key stakeholders on eye level in a compelling way\nExcellent communication skills across and within large, diverse groups and audiences\nOutstanding relationship builder, able to initiate, maintain, strengthen and leverage trusting relationships across teams, across functions and with third parties, at all levels, internally and externally\nGood understanding of customer workflows, needs and related market dynamics, coupled with the strong ability to translate such understanding into customer centric solutions and to orchestrate their launch and implementation\nExceptional strategic thinking combined with commercial ability to translate business ambitions into winning products\nOutstanding decision-making skills, able to make complex and timely decisions in line with available data, strategic context and professional values when there are unknowns\nProven ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic, flexible environment\nFluent in English\nWilling to travel up to 50% as this role is heavily focused on external customers\nAbout Sartorius\nSartorius is part of the solution in the fight against cancer, dementia, and many other diseases. Our technologies help translate scientific discoveries into real-world medicine faster, so that new therapeutics can reach patients worldwide.\nWe look for ambitious team players and creative minds, who want to contribute to this goal and advance their careers in a dynamic global environment.\nJoin our global team and become part of the solution. 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