Product Manager - Cell Analysis

Job Title
Product Manager - Cell Analysis
Location(s)
San Diego - BioLegend
About The PerkinElmer Life Sciences And Diagnostics Company
The PerkinElmer Life Sciences and Diagnostics company – which is to be renamed during the second quarter of 2023 – provides end-to-end solutions that help scientists, researchers and clinicians better diagnose disease and discover new and more personalized drugs. Its dedicated team of 11,000 collaborates closely with commercial, government, academic and healthcare customers to deliver reagents, assays, instruments, automation, informatics and strategic services that accelerate workflows, deliver actionable insights and support improved decision making. The Company is also deeply committed to good corporate citizenship through dynamic ESG and sustainability programs. The Company reported revenues of approximately $3.3 billion in 2022, serves customers in 190 countries, and is a component of the S&P 500 index.
BioLegend, Inc. (a PerkinElmer Company) develops world-class, cutting-edge antibodies and reagents for biomedical research, manufactured in our state-of-the-art facility in San Diego, CA. Our mission is to accelerate research and discovery by providing the highest quality products at an outstanding value, along with superior customer service and technical support. Our product expertise covers a diverse set of research areas including Immunology, Neuroscience, Cancer, Stem cells, and Cell Biology.
In 2021, PerkinElmer, Inc. (NYSE: PKI) a global leader committed to innovating for a healthier world, acquired BioLegend. The acquisition, the largest in PerkinElmer’s history, further expands the Company’s life science franchise into high-growth areas such as cytometry, proteogenomics, multiplex assays, recombinant proteins, magnetic cell separation and bioprocessing.
Job Summary
The Product Manager, Cell Analysis will focus on supporting customer, product and commercial objectives for BioLegend’s Cell Analysis portfolio, which includes flow cytometry antibodies and related reagents. This position will execute on technical support, new product launch, commercial content generation and supporting the FAS teams with customer-centric training and education on the Cell Analysis portfolio.
Additional responsibilities include, but are not limited to: participate in finding and evaluating new technologies, evaluate market/customer segment trends and competitive intelligence, work with marketing and sales teams to successfully launch new products, and implement marketing strategies, including developing sales enablement tools, web pages, email blasts, literature, and promotions. Some travel for conferences and customer visits is required. Depending on experience, the role may include supervision of junior members of the team.
Essential Functions
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Work with Corporate Marketing to devise and implement marketing strategies, while defining and creating associated marketing materials.
• Collaborate with internal departments to retrieve product related information for customers and coordinate internal investigations of potential non-conforming products.
• Contribute to company’s knowledge by updating literature and webpages, and by identifying potential new product targets at scientific meetings.
• Analyzes competitors and ensures competitive strategies and product development pipelines are in place for new and existing products.
• Support new product launch, review and update documentation, pricing product features, etc.
• Utilize scientific skills to assist with customer requests to provide Cell Analysis technical information, QC data, and troubleshooting help via telephone and emails and customer follow up.
• Collaborate with FAS teams in the development of cell Analysis customer-facing training and education presentations. This includes giving commercial and technical seminars as needed.
• Provide customer support as needed, supporting the technical service team on product line-specific inquiries.
• Collaborate with Product Development and Product Marketing in the development and improvements to Cell Analysis applications notes, protocols and white papers.

iACT Competencies

• Aspire – Have desire, purpose, and ambition challenging ourselves to push the limits and reach new heights
• Transform – Adapt, learn, re-invent and change for future development and growth
• Innovate – Be better, keep improving, be more efficient, creative, and be in the forefront of development
• Collaborate – Foster teamwork, common goals, selflessness, communication and mutual support

Minimum Qualifications – Education And Experience

• Must be able to effectively search and read primary literature, as well as be knowledgeable with research tools, including website databases and instrumentation.
• Ability to travel up to 5%
• Ph.D. with 5+ years of direct flow cytometry use or equivalent experience
• Must be a self-starter, highly motivated, dependable, and team player.
• Must also have problem solving, analytical, and quantitative skills and able to work independently and effectively in a team environment.
• High-level technical expertise, good communication skills, friendly, team player, software skills: Word, Excel, PowerPoint.

Preferred Qualifications – Education And Experience

• Experience with magnetic cell separation is preferred
• Experience with both spectral and conventional cytometry is preferred
• Extensive experience with multiparametric flow cytometry (12 colors or more) is a plus

Work Environment & Physical Demands -Office
While performing the duties of this job, the employee regularly works in an office setting. Occasional exposure to a laboratory and warehouse environment.
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands and fingers to handle, feel, or operate objects, tools or controls, and reach with hands and arms. The employee is frequently required to stand, talk and hear.
The anticipated salary range for candidates who will work in San Diego, California is $90,000-$130,000. The final salary offered to a successful candidate will be dependent on several factors that may include but are not limited to: the type and length of experience within the job, type and length of experience within the industry, education, etc. BioLegend is a multi-state employer and this salary range may not reflect positions that work in other states.
PerkinElmer is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability status, age, or veteran status or any other characteristics protected by applicable law. PerkinElmer is committed to a culturally diverse workforce.