We are looking for a Global Product Manager BIOFIRE Mycoplasma who will work and grow within the Global Marketing Healthcare Department. 

What will your responsibilities be at bioMérieux ?

The immediate objective of this position is to launch the BIOFIRE Mycoplasma Solution worldwide for the Industry market (particularly the Bioproduction industry), by leading go-to-market activities for global and local activities.  This includes following the Product Development Process : creating references on SAP, marketing and sales tools, establishing pricing, definition supply chain flow, etc. This position collaborates closely with Marketing, R&D, Global Industry Customer Service and local Product Managers in subsidiaries worldwide 

Additional responsibilities include:

• Organizing and supporting the commercial launch across all global regions leveraging the whole marketing community

• Ensuring the entire customer support process is established for both pre and post sales; including but limited to availability of associated services (such as feasibility studies, execution of validation protocols)

• Building the yearly strategic product/range marketing plan: monitoring and assessing market share and total available market, customer segmentation, product features, price, commercial deployment, sales support and training

• Designing tactical marketing plans; with communication and campaign  strategies that are in coherence with the entire Product and Process testing portfolio and executing these with the support of the Communications Department

• Organizing post-launch follow up with local sales and marketing teams and using this feedback to make recommendations to relevant stakeholders for future strategic developments

• Leading Lifecycle management activities, by ensuring achievement of profitability objectives coming from the core business strategy: sales, profitability, customer satisfaction,…

• Ensuring range availability: price definition, product availability, reference management in SAP, complaints handling

• Developing and maintaining close relationships with key opinion leaders (KOL) and key accounts to capture customer experience and engage them in product launches and execution in our subsidiaries

• Using Voice of Customer approach to evolve the range by ensuring that customer needs are understood by project teams (by prioritizing project specifications and presenting a business plan) and taking into account sales, segment marketing, R&D and customer service insights.

Who are you ?

• Graduate of Process Engineering or Molecular Biology or Microbiology, you have at least 5 years of experience as Product Manager in the Bioproduction or Pharmaceutical industry. MBA is a plus.

• You are fluent in English, and French is a plus.

• You have strong business acumen.

• You are recognized for your communication skills and have the ability to distill complex topics into simple and  clear messages for different stakeholders.

• You have a strong team spirit and are customer oriented.

• You are results oriented with the ability to establish priorities and meet deadlines.

• You are willing to travel both domestically and internationally 30-50% of the time.

• This position is located in either Chicago (USA), or in Craponne (France).