Category Manager

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🌐 France, Germany, +4 more countries – Remote

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⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🛒 Procurement

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Thermo Fisher Scientific

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1956

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

🏭 Manufacturing

Healthcare • Logistics • Manufacturing

Thermo Fisher Scientific is the world leader in serving science, with annual revenue of more than $40 billion. Their mission is to enable customers to make the world healthier, cleaner, and safer by supporting life sciences research, solving complex analytical challenges, increasing laboratory productivity, and improving patient health through diagnostics and the development of life-changing therapies. With a global team, they offer innovative technologies and pharmaceutical services through brands such as Thermo Scientific, Applied Biosystems, Invitrogen, Fisher Scientific, Unity Lab Services, Patheon, and PPD.

📋 Description

• Develop and implement category plans aligned with regional and global priorities • Support portfolio growth, margin improvement, and supplier funding initiatives • Collaborate with internal teams to deliver marketing campaigns and product launches • Contribute to the ongoing development of Fisherbrand and private-label strategies • Manage key supplier relationships through Thermo Fisher's Supplier Tiering Program • Lead business reviews, track supplier performance, and encourage continuous improvement • Strengthen collaboration with supplier leadership to align on goals and drive engagement • Review category performance against targets and identify improvement opportunities • Use data to understand market trends and support business decisions • Coordinate annual price roll activities and related supplier communication • Partner with Sales, Marketing, Finance, and Supply Chain teams to execute strategies • Contribute to process improvements that increase efficiency and customer satisfaction • Participate in Practical Process Improvement (PPI) activities to enhance team performance • Manage end-to-end product lifecycle management from strategy development through commercialization and optimization • Conduct voice-of-customer research, define product requirements, develop business cases, coordinate product launches, and implement continuous improvement initiatives

🎯 Requirements

• Advanced Degree plus 6 years of experience, or Bachelor's Degree plus 8 years of experience in product management, marketing, or related commercial experience • Proven success in product lifecycle management, from concept through commercialization • Strong business acumen and ability to develop compelling business cases and financial models • Excellence in gathering and synthesizing Voice of Customer insights • Effective cross-functional collaboration and influencing skills in matrix environment • Strong communication and presentation abilities across all organizational levels • Experience developing and executing product launch strategies and go-to-market plans • Strong analytical and data-driven decision making capabilities • Ability to balance strategic thinking with tactical execution • Proficiency with Microsoft Office suite, especially Excel and PowerPoint • Project management skills to coordinate multiple concurrent initiatives • Customer-centric mindset with deep understanding of market dynamics • Up to 30% travel required, including international • Knowledge of relevant scientific/technical domain preferred for specific product lines • Understanding of quality and regulatory requirements for applicable markets

🏖️ Benefits

• Fully remote work arrangement • Standard Monday–Friday work schedule