Responsibilities

• Define and execute product vision, strategy, and roadmap aligned with company goals, using feedback to meet expectations

• Influence product-related decisions, addressing critical issues proactively

• Adapt to market changes, customer needs, and competitive pressures to drive organizational agility

• Use customer insights, market research, and industry trends to identify unmet needs and opportunities

• Develop business cases from customer needs and trends, aligning stakeholders and validating reviews

• Advocate for the product portfolio, engaging with key customers and building relationships to enhance reputation

• Lead product from concept to market, ensuring it meets customer needs and business objectives

• Prioritize and develop new product offerings, balancing short-term urgencies and long-term evolution

• Create value propositions and communicate them effectively to the market

• Guide operations on expected volumes, margin expectations, and market vision, providing timely updates on exceptions

• Use technology understanding to develop solutions, adapting to customer needs and market dynamics

• Manage product lifecycle, optimizing performance through customer feedback and data

• Master's degree in Business, Marketing, Engineering, Life Science or a related field

• Seasoned professional experience in Life Science, several 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.)

• Role-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

• Outstanding presence, influencing and presentation skills to engage with key stakeholders on eye level in a compelling way

• Good 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

• Outstanding decision-making skills, able to make complex and timely decisions in line with available data, strategic context and professional values when there are unknowns

• Fluent in English and willing to travel up to 50% as this role is heavily focused on external customers

What offer

As a growing global life science company , stock listed on the DAX and TecDAX, Sartorius offers a wide range of Benefits:

• Personal and Professional Development: Mentoring, leadership programs, Talent Talks, internal seminar offerings , coaching for managers

• Work life balance: Remote options, flextime, flexible work schedules, sabbaticals

• Making an impact right from the start: Comprehensive onboarding, including a virtual online platform even before joining, Welcome Workshops, "buddy" as point of contact

• Welcoming Culture: Mutual support, teamspirit and international collaboration; communities on numerous topics, such as coaching, agile working and business women network