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Job Title
Strategic Product Manager, AA
Location(s)
Shanghai
Job Description
PerkinElmer is a global analytical services and solutions provider with offerings including the leading OneSource Field and Laboratory services business that serve the biopharma, food, environmental, safety and applied end markets to accelerate scientific outcomes. Since 1937, PerkinElmer has served as a trusted partner in laboratory analysis and management and today complements its service offerings with a broad portfolio of atomic spectroscopy, molecular spectroscopy, and chromatography instruments, consumables, and reagents. With a dedicated team of more than 5,000 team members, the Company serves customers in more than 35 countries. Additional information is available at www.perkinelmer.com
Purpose
PerkinElmer is seeking a Strategic Product Management Manager to serve as the full strategic and commercial owner of a product segment within one of its analytical instrument business units. This is a purpose-built strategic leadership role. Reporting to the VP Product Line, the Strategic PM holds end-to-end accountability for the product segment's roadmap, commercial positioning, pricing strategy, and P&L contribution.
This role will fully manage the AA P&L to include strategic, NPI and operational areas to include strategy, Go-to-Market, value propositions and day-to-day portfolio execution — quality escalations, SKU management and supply chain issues.
Responsibilities:
Product Strategy & Roadmap
Define and own the 3–5 year product roadmap for the assigned product segment — prioritisation, sequencing, and investment trade-off decisions across instruments, consumables, and software
Develop rigorous NPI business cases: market sizing, competitive positioning, financial modelling, and customer value quantification — to a standard that supports VP and CTO gate approval
Own gate progression for all NPIs within the segment from concept through commercial launch approval
Translate Market Requirements Documents from Strategic Segment Managers into specific product requirements and R&D briefs
Drive the long-term technology roadmap in close collaboration with R&D leadership — ensuring the portfolio maintains competitive and technical leadership in priority markets
Voice of Customer & Market Intelligence
Build and maintain a structured VOC programme for the product segment focused on requirements validation, competitive intelligence, and pricing research
Monitor the competitive landscape continuously — new instrument introductions, pricing moves, partnership activity — and translate intelligence into positioning and roadmap responses
Pricing & Financial Performance
Own global base pricing strategy for the product segment — setting, communicating, and periodically reviewing instrument and consumable pricing with VP Product Line approval
Manage the product segment's P&L contribution in partnership with the VP — tracking revenue, gross margin, and portfolio profitability against AOP targets
Support AOP planning with NPI revenue projections, volume forecasts, and portfolio investment requirements
Cross-functional Collaboration
Partner with the VP Product Line on portfolio investment prioritisation, AOP planning, and executive gate reviews
Work closely with R&D to translate commercial requirements into technically feasible product specifications, maintaining a clear PM/R&D boundary
Collaborate with the Sr. Director, Strategic & Commercial…