Role Summary
Senior Product Specialist, Organoids. The role translates customer problems and market insights into compelling business cases for new product development and strategic partnerships, guiding R&D to deliver products, data, and solutions that enhance customer acquisition in a rapidly evolving organoid market. This role collaborates across Commercial, R&D, Operations and Product Marketing to transform the business from a reagent vendor to an organoid solution provider and to deliver growth.
Responsibilities
- Provide in-depth customer, market, and competitor analyses to support strategic planning, portfolio analysis, and segmentation.
- Build deep customer and market knowledge, track competitive moves and market developments, and translate these into actionable opportunities to inform portfolio strategy.
- Build and cultivate KOL networks for insights, advocacy, and collaboration.
- Partner with corporate development to identify and assess inorganic opportunities.
- Attend tradeshows and conferences for intelligence gathering and promotional purposes.
- Assist in developing strategic product roadmaps aligned with 3–5 year business goals.
- Identify and execute strategic new product/portfolio opportunities, building business cases, financial models, and design briefs to support development and launch.
- Generate go-to-market plans to support successful NPI/portfolio launches, partnering with product marketing to develop and execute plans.
- Identify and pursue opportunities for strategic partnerships to deepen market penetration.
- Be familiar with intellectual property issues and their impact on business activities.
- Conduct standard product management duties such as lifecycle management and pricing, including annual pricing reviews.
- Generate reports and KPIs to understand financial performance and drivers of performance.
- Establish, refine and lead commercial strategies to deliver revenue growth for the product portfolio.
- Proactively ensure effective sales enablement, including commercial team training and support.
- Respond with urgency to new opportunities or changing market dynamics.
- Embed and promote EPIC values in all areas of work, maintaining the company’s culture, ethics, and people engagement.
- Perform other duties as required to support the business.
Qualifications
- Minimum Bachelor’s-level knowledge in a life science-related subject with several years of basic research or relevant commercial experience.
- 1–3 years of product management experience or related discipline (life sciences industry, biotech or related field preferred).
- Strong commercial and scientific acumen.
Skills
- Knowledge of Bio-Techne’s products, services, customers and marketplace.
- Strong interpersonal skills and collaborative approach to working with colleagues.
- Highly motivated with strong presentation and organizational skills.
- Energetic and enthusiastic about science and high-quality products.
- Negotiation, organizational skills, problem solving, and data-based decision making.
- Self-starter with initiative; curious with determination.
- Excellent written and verbal English communication skills; proficient with computer applications and software.
- Professional demeanor.
Education
- Bachelor’s degree in life sciences or a closely related field.