Product Manager - LC/MS Reagents - Agilent Technologies

Location: San Diego , California
Categories: Marketing
Website: http://www.agilent.apply2jobs.com

Position Description

As the Product Manager – LC/MS Reagents you will join a talented Product Team within Agilent Technologies – Stratagene Products Division. We are seeking an enthusiastic, marketing professional to manage Agilent’s Life Science and Chemical Analysis (LSCA) LC/MS reagents product portfolio. In this role your primary focus will be to develop and commercialize products to support LC/MS applications and workflows.

Key responsibilities:
- Facilitate development of products through R&D, into Production, and onto market
- Develop product launch strategies and implement launch plans to effectively utilize all channels
- Establish product positioning, packaging, and pricing strategy to produce the highest possible long-term market share
- Produce competitive analysis materials comparing product with its key competitors
- Set product-pricing strategies, including discount structures, and manage those strategies in conjunction with market dynamics and target markets
- Performing financial analyses and building business cases for marketing programs and measuring and evaluating short- and long-term impacts of marketing programs
- Working with marketing communications professionals to develop programs
- Collaborate with field colleagues to ensure global efficacy of programs and align execution with regions
- Defining training and content requirements for products and programs
- Drive the product/marketing message through all communication channels
- Develop promotional and collateral materials for products on market
- Identify partnering opportunities for complementary third-party products to broaden company’s product line
- Participate in key sales situations for the product
- Manage financials for products, including sales revenue, cost, profit, marketing expense, and other product related expenses.

Requires:
BS/MS degree in Molecular Biology, Biochemistry or related field or equivalent.
- 2+ years experience in the marketing of molecular biology products. Sales experience is a plus.
- Track record of success in use of marketing skills and market knowledge to prepare reagent products for commercialize that result in business success.
- Must have technical knowledge in liquid chromatography and mass spectrometry
- Experience developing outbound marketing programs to drive demand for new and existing products as well as encourage repeat purchasing
- Demonstrate developing marketing plans that align with strategic objectives
- Ability to work independently to plan, prioritize workload, schedule time, assess and solve problems
- Proficiency in pricing and forecasting
- Must exhibit traits of teamwork, creativity, planning and organization, and flexibility
- Strong analytical skills
- Strong evidence of customer focus and customer advocacy
- Experience in working with global markets/customers an advantage
- Experience in protein expression, chromatography, and/or mass spectroscopy related markets is a plus
- Excellent written and oral communications skills and comfortable presenting to senior individuals both internally and externally.
- Must have flexibility in working hours and available for 35% business travel.

Geo Location: San Diego, CA Area.

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