Product Manager, NPD & Product Lifecycle Management

Key Responsibilities

• Build and deliver a robust pipeline of new products aligned to market trends, customer needs, and portfolio growth priorities.
• Own NPD governance and stage-gate execution, ensuring disciplined progression from concept to launch in line with global processes.
• Engage with customers and internal stakeholders to shape target product profiles, technical requirements, and launch readiness.
• Define and execute product launch plans, coordinating with Marketing, Sales, R&D, and Operations to ensure timely and effective market introduction.
• Manage products through their full lifecycle, ensuring profitability, competitiveness, and timely optimisation, rationalisation, or exit decisions.
• Collaborate with Supply Chain to ensure competitive lead times, capacity alignment, and operational feasibility across the portfolio.
• Partner with Pricing to set and implement NPD and lifecycle pricing, balancing margin, competitiveness, and scalability.
• Prepare global demand forecasts and work with Demand Planners and operations teams to develop a Sales & Operations Planning process.
• Provide product support for transactional sales activities, including lifecycle pricing, substitutions, and availability-driven decisions.
• Track and analyse sales, operational, and lifecycle KPIs to identify product improvement, optimisation, or corrective actions.
• Monitor and communicate NPD and lifecycle KPIs, risks, and progress to senior leadership with clear actions and recommendations.

Qualifications

• Degree in science-based discipline, preferably chemistry, MBA is an asset.
• Strong market knowledge of Industrial and Metals Standards is required.
• 5+ years’ experience in Product Management, Marketing or Sales, ideally in the Life Sciences tools or Analytical Chemistry industry.
• Excellent problem solving, coordination and consensus building skills.
• Keenly attentive to detail with strong analytical skills.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with ability to influence senior stakeholders in different functions.
• Goal orientated, with excellent time management and organisational skills.
• Proficient in strategic planning, market research and positioning of value propositions.
• Able to motivate, problem solve, deal with ambiguity, and effectively prioritize business needs.
• Strong MS Office proficiency is an advantage is preferable.