Job Description
Overview:
TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients worldwide. Our client is a leading biotechnology company that combines technological insight with world-class manufacturing, scientific expertise, and process excellence and helps its customers deliver new and innovative medicines that help treat a wide range of diseases. Our client specializes in pharmaceutical ingredients, bioscience, biopharmaceuticals, custom manufacturing, biotechnology, life science ingredients, nutrition, microbial control, agriculture, materials science, personal care, and cell and gene therapy.
Job Title: Product Manager Life Sciences
Location: Walkersville, MD - 21793
Duration: 8 Months
Job Type: Temporary Assignment
Work Type: Onsite
Location: Walkersville, MD - 21793
Duration: 8 Months
Job Type: Temporary Assignment
Work Type: Onsite
Summary
Bioprocessing Product Manager / Product Manager Life Sciences is responsible for driving business success through proactive product lifecycle management, product development, portfolio expansion, and commercialization strategies. Acts as the central interface for developing and executing global portfolio strategies in collaboration with R&D, Sales, Strategy, Marketing, Operations, Finance, and other cross-functional stakeholders. Leads the assigned product portfolio from market assessment and innovation through product development, launch, lifecycle management, pricing, forecasting, and ongoing performance optimization. Provides technical, business, and regulatory support while ensuring products meet customer needs, market requirements, quality standards, and business objectives.
Responsibilities
Product Line Strategy
- Manage the complete lifecycle and value chain of the assigned product portfolio, including market, competitive, customer, and application intelligence.
- Develop and execute portfolio lifecycle and innovation strategies aligned with market needs and business objectives.
- Identify unmet customer needs and opportunities for new products, services, technologies, and intellectual property.
- Lead customer and market insight activities to identify current and future customer requirements.
- Lead new product development programs, including business case development and stage-gate processes.
- Develop product specifications, use cases, beta testing programs, and launch plans.
- Drive products from development through commercialization.
- Develop and manage product pricing strategies.
- Develop pricing, positioning, and channel strategies across global regions and market segments.
- Work closely with Sales, Marketing, R&D, Strategy, Operations, and other stakeholders to deliver customer, revenue, volume, and profitability objectives.
- Identify opportunities to improve products, services, margins, and overall business value.
Sales & Operations Planning and Performance Insights
- Drive the product forecasting process and connect sales forecasts with production requirements.
- Forecast new products and manage inventory requirements.
- Address demand exceptions and support prioritization during supply constraints.
- Monitor portfolio performance against revenue, volume, and margin targets.
- Identify performance concerns and recommend or escalate required adjustments.
- Monitor product performance at the customer level to identify trends, challenges, and opportunities.
- Provide regular portfolio performance reports to business leadership.
- Maintain a comprehensive understanding of the assigned portfolio and communicate developments and opportunities to Sales, Marketing, Operations, Finance, and other stakeholders.
- Support business strategy and go-to-market planning through portfolio performance insights.
Marketing Planning
- Support development of comprehensive marketing plans for the assigned portfolio.
- Collaborate with Marketing leadership to develop portfolio positioning and go-to-market strategies.
- Support global marketing campaigns designed to drive portfolio growth.
- Provide technical and product input for marketing materials, campaigns, and public relations content.
- Ensure product messaging appropriately reflects technical capabilities, customer needs, and market positioning.
Product Sales & Support
- Build technical awareness within appropriate departments to enable timely resolution of routine customer concerns.
- Provide second-line support for non-routine technical, business, and regulatory questions.
- Support Sales and Service teams through customer visits, regular communication, and regional/global sales meetings.
- Provide technical and regulatory guidance to Sales and Service representatives.
- Drive training for Sales and Service teams on technical, product, and regulatory aspects of the assigned portfolio.
- Coordinate responses to complex customer requirements and technical inquiries.
Safety & Compliance
- Manage applicable safety, quality, and regulatory requirements associated with the assigned portfolio and production sites.
- Support compliance with applicable regulatory and quality management requirements.
- Participate in Deviation Review Board meetings.
- Support Change Control activities and Corrective and Preventive Actions (CAPA) driven by Quality.
- Coordinate with Sales and Marketing on customer communications related to quality, safety, regulatory matters, and product positioning.
- Ensure portfolio activities remain aligned with applicable regulatory and quality requirements.
Required Skills
- Experience in product management, portfolio management, product development, commercialization, or a related life sciences/business function.
- Strong understanding of product lifecycle management and portfolio strategy.
- Ability to develop and execute product and innovation strategies.
- Strong market, customer, competitive, and application analysis skills.
- Experience with new product development and commercialization processes.
- Understanding of business case development and stage-gate processes.
- Ability to develop and manage product pricing strategies.
- Strong forecasting, inventory planning, and portfolio performance analysis skills.
- Ability to analyze revenue, volume, margin, customer, and market performance data.
- Strong cross-functional collaboration skills with Sales, Marketing, R&D, Strategy, Operations, Finance, and Quality teams.
- Strong technical communication skills with the ability to translate complex technical information into customer and business value.
- Ability to provide technical, business, and regulatory support for non-routine issues.
- Strong customer relationship and stakeholder management skills.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to develop and deliver product, technical, and regulatory training.
- Understanding of quality systems, regulatory requirements, deviations, Change Control, and CAPA.
- Ability to work effectively in a global, cross-functional environment.
- Strong analytical, strategic thinking, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and drive projects from concept through commercialization.
TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Walkersville, MD |
| Industry | Computer/IT Services |
| Salary | $50–$60 |
| Company Size | 100 to 499 employees |
| Year Founded | 2009 |
| Website | http://www.tekwissen.com/ |
About Company
WE THE TEKWISSEN PEOPLE
TekWissen offers you a broader portfolio of services, industry-leading solutions, and the meaningful innovations that give you greater flexibility and speed to respond to market dynamics, reduced costs and risk to improve enterprise performance, and increased productivity to enable growth.
To keep pace with global market demands, TekWissen keeps its finger on the pulse of change. Our organized approach to guiding a project from its inception to closure. Managing projects is becoming more and more important as we enter the digital era. To cope with the pace that this transition demands, a method is required to manage projects so they can yield quality work, while incorporating efficient use of time and resources.
Project involves identifying which quality standards are relevant to the project and determining how to satisfy them.
It is important to perform quality planning during the Planning Process and should be done alongside the other project planning processes because changes in the quality will likely require changes in the other planning processes, or the desired product quality may require a detailed risk analysis of an identified problem. It is important to remember that quality should be planned, designed, then built in, not added on after the fact.
Capabilities and accomplishments in one TekWissen business enhance the opportunity for success in the others. Put simply, TekWissen's unique combination of attributes promotes success.Skills
- 2nd Level Supportunmatched
- Agricultureunmatched
- Analysis Skillsunmatched
- Beta Test/Releaseunmatched
- Biologyunmatched
- Biotech and Pharmaceuticalunmatched
- Board Meetingunmatched
- Business Caseunmatched
- Business Strategyunmatched
- Business Supportunmatched
- Change Controlunmatched
- Channel Strategiesunmatched
- Communication Skillsunmatched
- Competitive Analysis/Strategyunmatched
- Corrective Actionunmatched
- Corrective and Preventative Action (CAPA) Systemsunmatched
- Cross-Functionalunmatched
- Customer Relationship Management (CRM)unmatched
- Customer Support/Serviceunmatched
- Customer/Client Researchunmatched
- Diseaseunmatched
- Diversityunmatched
- Establish Prioritiesunmatched
- Financeunmatched
- Forecastingunmatched
- Gene Therapyunmatched
- Intellectual Property (IP)unmatched
- International Marketingunmatched
- International Salesunmatched
- Inventory Managementunmatched
- Inventory Planningunmatched
- Investment Managementunmatched
- Leadershipunmatched
- Management Strategyunmatched
- Manufacturingunmatched
- Market Analysisunmatched
- Market Entry Strategyunmatched
- Market Segmentationunmatched
- Marketingunmatched
- Marketing Campaignunmatched
- Marketing Communicationsunmatched
- Marketing Planunmatched
- Marketing Strategyunmatched
- Marketing/Promotional Messagingunmatched
- Material Scienceunmatched
- Medical Productsunmatched
- Messaging Technologyunmatched
- Multitaskingunmatched
- Needs Assessmentunmatched
- Nutritionunmatched
- Operations Planningunmatched
- Performance Analysisunmatched
- Performance Tuning/Optimizationunmatched
- Personal Careunmatched
- Portfolio Analysisunmatched
- Presentation/Verbal Skillsunmatched
- Pricingunmatched
- Problem Solving Skillsunmatched
- Product Developmentunmatched
- Product Lifecycle Managementunmatched
- Product Managementunmatched
- Product Marketingunmatched
- Product Positioningunmatched
- Product Pricingunmatched
- Product Strategyunmatched
- Product Supportunmatched
- Product/Service Launchunmatched
- Profit & Lossunmatched
- Public/Media/Press/Analyst Relationsunmatched
- Quality Metricsunmatched
- Quality System Requirements (QSR)unmatched
- Regional Salesunmatched
- Regulationsunmatched
- Regulatory Requirementsunmatched
- Requirements Managementunmatched
- Research & Development (R&D)unmatched
- Revenue Analysisunmatched
- Safety/Work Safetyunmatched
- Salesunmatched
- Sales Forecastingunmatched
- Sales Operationsunmatched
- Sales Strategyunmatched
- Sales Supportunmatched
- Sales Trainingunmatched
- Team Playerunmatched
- Technical Deliveryunmatched
- Test Programunmatched
- Time Managementunmatched
- Trend Analysisunmatched
- Use Casesunmatched
- Value Chain Modelunmatched
- Workforce Managementunmatched
- Writing Skillsunmatched
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