Product Manager Pharma (80% - 100%)

Your new role

• Your focus will be the introduction of new products into the pharmaceutical excipient market. This includes the process of introducing those products, in close collaboration with sales, business development and R&D, innovation, and production.
• Ensure regular kledge transfer between R&D and sales on your portfolio and manage legal, regulatory, and toxicological data, functionality, literature, and patent research with relevant functions (e.g., QA and regulatory affairs.
• Provide on-going business decision support in organic growth and investment within current and future product portfolio.
• Manage the whole product life cycle of those products, including target group analysis, competitor analysis, trend analysis, pricing policies (e.g., value-based pricing), product marketing and sales support.
• Periodical portfolio evaluation, check plan-actual comparison, and take corrective actions if necessary to assure sustainable and profitable growth of the portfolio.
• Provide technical input and assist in creating marketing documentation such as posters, brochures, flyers, presentation, and trade fair material; conduct training sessions and deliver technical presentations at trade fairs and events.
• Assure in day-to-day operations that introduced products have adequate technical complaint handling within the departments and participate in quality-related product topics for continuous improvement (incl. CAPAs, change management, audits, and customer questionnaires.
• Support new customer acquisitions including lead generation in Pharma, Veterinary and Diagnostics
• Attend seminars, conventions and trade fairs including booth supervision, if requested
• Accompany sales managers on business trips and provide technical support.

Desired skills and experience

• Degree from University of Applied Science (FH) or University/ETH qualified in a natural science discipline (Pharmaceutical Science, Biotechnology, Chemistry etc.) with prior kledge working in the pharmaceutical industry.
• Experience in marketing or another customer-related activity, ideally in the field of surfactants for pharmaceutical and biotechnological excipients as well as diagnostic applications.
• Excellent people skills with a confident demeanor.
• Strong commercial acumen and a passion marketing related topics.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to build strategic relationships and lead cross functional internal teams to ensure customer expectations are met.
• Self-organized with high team competences to achieve optimal results for our customers in cooperation with other internal departments.
• Connected thinking, able to grasp complex information and communicate in a concise manner.
• Fluency in English and German, other languages are a plus.
• Willingness to travel in Europe (case-by-case)

Our offer

• A challenging, versatile, and responsible job in a rapidly growing international company.
• Working place/employment can be Hedingen/Switzerland or remote in France or Germany.
• A professional, established organization with an open, international, and creative working environment.
• Personal and professional development opportunities.
• Attractive employment conditions.

 We are interested in a long-term, successful collaboration. You too? We are looking forward to receiving yourapplication by email to Ms. Marianne Pantli at: [email protected]