Product Manager, Life Sciences – UPM, The Biofore Company
8.2.2023https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/3436245060
About the job
Are you looking to join a dynamic, innovation-driven, international company, building a better future for us all? UPM leads the forest based bioindustry into a sustainable, innovation-driven, and exciting future. The competence, integrity and drive of our people make us unique. We live by our values – trust and be trusted, achieve together, renew with courage.
We are now looking for a Product Manager, Life Sciences to join our Biomedicals team. The job is based in Helsinki, Finland and/or in Switzerland.
Greetings From Your Future Manager
“We are looking for a team player with great communication skills to join our agile start-up like team within a large corporation. You are able to capture sharp customer insights, translate them into business and product strategy and take actions to solve our customer’s challenges.” – Tony Kiuru, Senior Manager, Business Development
What You’ll Do
- Collect feedback from our customers to generate insights
- Discuss with KOLs to seek product improvements
- Support development of the customer experience journey in co-operation with the sales and marketing team
- Develop and implement the strategic plan for GrowDex, GrowDase and GrowInk product groups globally
- Create and maintain the business cases for strategically important products/product groups and key customers
- Gather requirements from prospects, evaluators, and customers, and use those inputs to lead product development plans. Conduct quantitative and qualitative analysis on variety of sources to understand business trends and support business initiatives.
- Provide expert advice and support on assigned products to sales and marketing and operations
- Translate deep understanding of customer workflows and customer needs into sharp customer insights. Use these insights to shape product development pipelines
- Liaise with sales and marketing to design product launches, sales campaigns and sales collateral for the product that are effective and appropriate for the target audience
- The job requires 25-40% of travel time. Besides customer visits and conference participations, you will also be visiting the manufacturing site and participating in UPM Biomedicals strategy meetings.
Who You Are
- You have a minimum of 3 years of relevant experience from life science section as a product manager or similar, and you have an understanding of the relationships between manufacturing and sales
- You have previously supported product development or product sales in the life science sector, preferably with a focus in cell-based assays. You have experience developing deep understanding of customer workflows and customer needs into sharp customer insights.
- You have a university degree
- You have excellent organizational and project management skills. You are a good listener with ability to influence across teams and stakeholders, internally and externally.
- Cell laboratory skills are considered as an asset
- You are fluent in written and spoken English. Finnish and German language skills are considered a plus.
This Is What We Offer For You
- Meaningful job: Our work impacts the quality of healthcare in future. We highlight the expertise of our personnel, the high quality of our products and the company values.
- Inspired and motivated teams: We have highly skilled workforce. We are a multifaceted, international organization that works as a team to achieve our vision.
- Development opportunities: With us you can build up your expertise. We provide opportunities to support your development throughout every stage of your career.
- Responsibility for people and environment: Our ethical principles embrace people as well as the environment. We are always striving to build a more sustainable future.
Additional Information
For more information, please contact Senior Manager, Business Development Tony Kiuru at +358407085100 during the following time slots: 23rd of January 9.00-10.00 or 30th of January 9.00-10.00. All times in Finnish time zone (EET).Please send your application via the link latest by February 12th, 2023.For support with submitting your application, please contact HR Service Center at careers@upm.com or tel. +358204146600.A security background check may be performed for those selected to UPM positions, in accordance with the company recruitment guidelines and the Security Clearance Act 726/2014.UPM is a non-smoking workplace in Finland
UPM Biomedicals is advancing the healthcare with innovative products combining the know-how in natural materials with research results in regenerative medicine. We are the first company to manufacture plant nanocellulose in ISO 13485 quality and are protected with more than 400 patents. Currently, we have five product families – GrowDex® for 3D cell culture, GrowInk™ for bioprinting, GrowDase™ for gentle release of cells, FibDex® advanced wound dressing and OEM nanocellulose for custom formulations in life science and clinical fields.
UPM Biomedicals is part of UPM-Kymmene Oyj, a company with more than 100 years of history, 10 billion euros turnover and 17,000 employees in 46 countries.