Leica Microsystems is a world leader in microscopes and scientific instruments. Founded as a family business in the nineteenth century, the company’s history was marked by unparalleled innovation on its way to becoming a global enterprise.

Its historically close cooperation with the scientific community is the key to Leica Microsystems’ tradition of innovation, which draws on users’ ideas and creates solutions tailored to their requirements. At the global level, Leica Microsystems is organized in three divisions, all of which are among the leaders in their respective fields: the Life Science Division, Industry Division, and Medical Division.

For our Product Management team in Vienna we are looking for a strong personality as

Product Manager Nanotechnologie (f/m)

Key Responsibilities:

  • Manage the product life cycle for assigned products within the Biological portfolio
  • Project management of internal efforts required for product commercialization, including interfacing with Quality Management Systems, R&D, and related roles
  • Organize and drive activities cross functionally related to global product launch, including developing positioning, sales training, pricing and collateral development to ensure product launch execution
  • Interact with key internal and external customers globally to understand problems, obtain feedback on new and existing products, and identify solutions
  • Specify market requirements from all major geographic regions supported by on-going market research with customers and non-customers
  • Own the marketing specifications and responsibility that the balance between competitiveness and achievability is maintained to ensure the future sales performance of the products
  • Own pricing and discounting structure and coordinate with Sales Operations
  • Estimate market size, segmentation and target market definition to drive a long term product roadmap for both new and existing products, globally
  • Present business cases to leadership team, VP and President for new product development
  • Monitors financial performance of the (revenue, profitability) market, and establishes KPI’s for the product line’s financial performance and develops countermeasures when performance is not met

Key Requirements:

  • Bachelor's degree in Science, Engineering, Marketing, Business Administration, or equivalent experience is required. PhD or MBA is preferred
  • Minimum 3-5 years of experience in research / sample preparation of biological samples Strong knowledge of EM and EM sample preparationwith cryo methods
  • Experience in product management, marketing preferred
  • Ability to translate needs into products.
  • Proficient in English and German (spoken & written), other languages (is a plus)
  • Proven ability to influence decisions across all levels of an organization, including executive level
  • Strong time management and organizational skills. Ability to multitask and manage competing priorities and changing business needs.

Are you interested to work independently in a team orientated environment, do you want to go new ways and solve innovative issues? Sonja Pries is looking forward to your application to .

Leica Mikrosysteme GmbH

HernalserHauptstraße 219

A-1170 Wien

+43 1 48899