Sr Product Manager

Thermo Fisher Scientific · Singapore

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As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world’s toughest challenges, like protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer.

DESCRIPTION:

The Senior Product Manager, CE Instruments, will lead the strategy, commercialization, and lifecycle management of the capillary electrophoresis (CE) instrument portfolio supporting clinical, forensic, and applied sciences markets across the Asia-Pacific region and globally.

This role will be responsible for driving product growth, customer engagement, market expansion, and regional localization initiatives. The role serves as the Asia Pacific product management leader for the CE instrument portfolio. The successful candidate will work closely with global cross-functional teams including R&D, commercial, service, operations, regulatory, quality, and marketing to drive portfolio strategy, innovation, commercialization, and financial performance.

The role requires strong business acumen, technical understanding of CE instrumentation workflows, and the ability to engage effectively with Mandarin-speaking customers, distributors, and stakeholders.

What will you do?

Product Strategy & Lifecycle Ownership

• Own product vision, strategy, roadmap, and lifecycle management for the CE instrument portfolio, ensuring alignment with division strategy, customer needs, and financial objectives.
• Define portfolio priorities and recommend strategic trade-offs across assigned products, workflows, applications, software, assays, and platform capabilities.
• Drive long-term portfolio planning, market expansion, product evolution, and end-of-life strategies to maximize customer value and business performance.

• Partner closely with the global leadership team to align portfolio priorities with business strategy and growth objectives.

Customer & Workflow Insights

• Serve as the voice of the customer by translating unmet customer needs, workflow pain points, market trends, and competitive insights into differentiated product requirements and roadmap priorities.
• Engage directly with customers, distributors, key opinion leaders (KOLs), and industry stakeholders across Asia-Pacific and globally to identify opportunities for innovation and growth.
• Leverage customer and workflow insights to shape solutions that improve productivity, user experience, and customer outcomes.
• Support regional localization initiatives and market expansion strategies, including China and broader Asia-Pacific growth opportunities.

Cross-Functional Leadership & Global Collaboration

• Influence and align stakeholders across R&D, operations, quality, regulatory, service, commercial, marketing, and finance functions to achieve portfolio objectives.
• Lead through influence in a global matrix organization, driving strategic alignment and decision-making without direct authority.
• Collaborate effectively across global teams, including product management leadership based in California, to ensure alignment on portfolio priorities, investments, and roadmap execution.
• Represent Asia-Pacific customer and market perspectives in global portfolio and business planning discussions.

Innovation and Workflow Enablement

• Partner with R&D, Technology, and cross-functional stakeholders to identify and prioritize customer-backed new product innovations, workflow automation opportunities, and adjacent market opportunities.
• Influence innovation investments and development priorities through customer, market, and business insights.
• Contribute to future platform, workflow, and technology strategies that strengthen portfolio competitiveness and customer value.

Commercial Alignment

• Lead product positioning, market segmentation, value proposition development, and pricing recommendations for the portfolio.
• Partner with commercial, marketing, and regional teams to ensure launch readiness, customer adoption, and market success.
• Support sales enablement through competitive positioning, training, messaging, and customer-facing materials.
• Maintain accountability for portfolio revenue performance and achievement of business growth objectives.

Financial Ownership

• Own portfolio business performance, including revenue growth, market share, profitability, and lifecycle value creation.
• Develop business cases, investment recommendations, and financial analyses to support portfolio strategy and resource allocation decisions.
• Partner with finance and business leadership on forecasting, annual operating plans, demand planning, and long-range strategic planning.
• Monitor portfolio performance metrics and recommend actions to achieve financial and strategic objectives.

How will you get here?

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Life Sciences, Engineering, Molecular Biology, Biotechnology, Chemistry, or related discipline required
• Advanced degree (MS, MBA, or PhD) preferred

Experience

• Minimum 5–7 years of experience in product management, marketing, applications, or commercial roles within life sciences or analytical instrumentation
• Experience with capillary electrophoresis, genetic analysis, molecular biology, or related instrumentation preferred
• Demonstrated success working within a global matrix organization
• Experience leading cross-functional initiatives and product commercialization activities
• Strong customer engagement and market development experience

Language Requirements

• Fluent in both English and Mandarin Chinese (written and spoken) required
• Ability to effectively communicate with Mandarin-speaking customers, distributors, and regional stakeholders

Preferred Knowledge & Skills

• Knowledge of CE workflows, genetic analysis, sequencing, or forensic applications
• Strong strategic thinking and analytical skills
• Excellent communication, presentation, and influencing capabilities
• Ability to work effectively across cultures and global teams
• Strong organizational and project management skills
• Experience supporting Asia-Pacific and China markets preferred
• Willingness to travel internationally as needed

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