Associate Product Manager or Product Manager, Tissue Imaging Instrumentation

PerkinElmer is a global leader committed to innovating for a healthier world. Our dedicated team of 9,000 employees worldwide are passionate about providing customers with an unmatched experience as they help solve critical issues impacting the diagnostics, discovery and analytical solutions markets. Our innovative detection, imaging, informatics and service capabilities, combined with deep market knowledge and expertise, help customers gain earlier and more accurate insights to improve lives and the world around us.

The incumbent will be both the market and product ambassador imaging instruments in PerkinElmer’s Quantitative Pathology portfolio. This means you will be responsible for the entire brand of the product, from conception and development, to launch and marketing, to operational excellence and profitability. You will build products from existing ideas, and help to develop new ideas based on your market experience and your contact with customers and prospects. You must possess a unique blend of business and technical savvy; contributing to the bigger strategic vision and turn the crank on driving tactics in order to make the vision a reality. You must enjoy spending time in the market to understand researcher problems, and find innovative solutions for the broader market. Duties and Responsibilities:

• Develop effective sales tools and application roadmaps for global market execution and providing sales training to global teams
• Devise and implement tactical activities to expand market adoption of product line
• Become the product go-to person for sales, R&D, operation, finance, legal, and other functions as it relates to your product area
• Conduct voice of customer and market research surveys using findings to drive product development and roadmap over a 3 year strategic plan
• Specify market user requirements for current and future products by conducting market research supported by on-going visits to customers and non-customers
• Serve as the product champion, ensuring product performance meets expectations and explore ways for continuous improvement and market adoption
• Participate within a multidisciplinary team supporting new product development
• Collaborate with other product managers to develop, articulate and validate crisp and compelling value propositions to attract market attention that motivate researcher decisions to select PerkinElmer offerings
• Assume ownership for working with appropriate groups to resolve issues as needed
• Work closely with Marketing Communications to develop event, trade show and advertisement focus and messaging