Avantor is a leading global provider of mission-critical products and services to customers in the biopharma, healthcare, education & government, and advanced technologies & applied materials industries.

Our portfolio is used in virtually every stage of the most important research, development and production activities in the industries we serve.

Our global footprint enables us to serve more than 300,000 customer locations and gives us extensive access to research laboratories and scientists in more than 180 countries. We set science in motion to create a better world.

More than 14,500 strong, our associates are passionate about our mission to set science in motion to create a better world. We share enthusiasm for innovation, excellence, and achievement. Whether we are collaborating with our customers to advance science or solve multifaceted problems, we help them reach their goals more efficiently and effectively.

How you will thrive and create an impact...

Product Management:

Manage Product Projects: Coordinates closely with suppliers, manufacturing organization, and internal contacts to ensure production addition, discontinuation, and supersession processes are followed, and that Commercial and Operations teams are prepared for substitutions when such options exist.

Core Product Conversions/ SKU rationalization: Coordinates and manages product lifecycles.

Drive On-Boarding of innovative Lab and Production Suppliers/Products: Actively assists Innovation Product Manager all aspects of the on-boarding process utilizing the internal Toll Gate Process to include: managing internal meetings, assistance with financial modeling, working with Portfolio Leadership implement customer specific pricing strategies, coordinating with the e-business team, MarCom, Master Data, Compliance, and Finance functional areas to ensure appropriate integration with suppliers is enabled as well as providing supporting data analyses and competitive cross reference tables.

Analytics:

Informatics and research support: Produces proactive analyses and competitive intelligence gathering regarding competitors’ pricing and positioning, in support of key product launches and for determination of potential unmet market needs for the relevant customer segments.

Reporting and Data Analysis Support: Provides data analysis for Portfolio Leadership. This includes not only generating reports in the company’s various systems (QS, PowerBI, SAP, etc.) but also providing critical thought and option recommendations regarding the results.

Field Sales Support:

Field Communication: Works with Portfolio Leadership to develop product positioning and messaging for portfolio. Answers routine questions from field regarding existing products, product programs/initiatives and organize product trainings.

Technical Product Support – Training and enablement of supporting teams

Supplier Relationship Management support

Support Portfolio leader with preparation for business reviews, project activities, and agreed upon strategy execution.

Prepare and execute marketing and promotion plan together with Marketing

Improve Enrichment of our portfolio

Support SCP: S&OP Inventory Management including decisions with impact on net working capital

Performs other duties as assigned.

Pricing Support:

Analysis: Conducts in depth analysis of prior year pricing actions to determine net effect of changes & recommendations for future action.

Benchmarking: Performs continual updates of competitor pricing related to top tiers of suppliers’ products, providing Portfolio Leadership and with insights into list price gaps and opportunities for margin expansion.

Implementation: Assists Portfolio Leadership with timely completion of the year-end pricing process and Internal Operating Plan (IOP) development and any mid-year analysis as required.

What we're looking for

Education: Bachelor’s degree required, in a scientific line of study preferred; Technical degree and/or MBA preferred

Experience: 2-3 years of relevant work experience, preferably with multi-department product management in global, matrix organization

Demonstrated history of meeting deadlines and achieving results while maintaining strong attention to details in a fast-paced, collaborative environment

Advanced skill and proficiency with MS Excel, Teams, Outlook and PowerPoint required.

Ability to influence cross functional teams without direct authority

Excellent written and verbal skills

Strong business systems proficiency – SAP, PowerBI, Quality systems (eg. ETQ)

Collaborative interpersonal skills

Superior analytical and organizations skills, adaptability

Proactive problem solver

Project management skills, sounding the alarm if projects/initiatives go off the tracks

Demonstrated proficiency in analyzing and reporting metrics and trends