MAJOR JOB DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES (List in order of importance)

• Drive On-Boarding of innovative Lab and Production Suppliers/Products: Actively manages 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 and Portfolio Growth Management to implement customer specific pricing strategies, coordinating with the e-business team, MarCom, Master Data, Compliance, Supply chain and Finance functional areas to ensure appropriate integration with suppliers is enabled as well as providing supporting data analyses and competitive cross reference tables.
  
• Manage Product Rationalization & Discontinuation 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.
  
• Inventory Management & Forecasting - DSI management for key product families, proprietary & sourced products. Analyze historical sales and liase with commercial to prepare data-driven inventory levels for product families and provide as input to supply chain planning. Lead material review boards for his/her products with a cross functional team and drive decisions regarding blocks, allocations, backorder management.
  
• Product content & enrichment on VWR.com - Manage product content on the web & ensure high enrichment levels; work closely with marketing teams to ensure product awareness, conversion programs are implemented, assess performance and make recommendations to drive improved buying journey for customers
  
• 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 Portfolio Growth Management with insights into list price gaps and opportunities for margin expansion.
  Implementation: Assists Portfolio Leadership and Portfolio Growth Management with timely completion of the year-end pricing process and Internal Operating Plan (IOP) development.
  
• 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 and Portfolio Growth Management. This includes not only generating reports in the company's various systems (QV, BW, SAP, ZPIE, etc.) but also providing critical thought and option recommendations regarding the results.
  
• Field Sales Support:
  Field Communication: Works with Portfolio Leadership and Portfolio Growth Management to develop product positioning and messaging for new products and suppliers. Answers questions from field regarding programs and initiatives and organize product trainings.
• Technical Product Support - Training and enablement of teams in GBCs (India, Mauritus)
  Collaborate closely with QA & RA & fully responsible for upholding the product quality & compliance standards ensuring document availability, identifying & closing gaps.
  Establish standard business process to plan, execute & measure product success including external/customer related success parameters (i.e. on-time delivery, product complaints), financial (sales, margin) & operational (i.e. DSI, inventory turn-over, scrap, etc)
  Foster clear communication that keeps all product stakeholders collaborating effortlessly.
  Support commercial teams in bids, RFPs, SPQs

QUALIFICATIONS (education / experience)

• Bachelor's degree required, in a life scientific & / or chemistry line of study. Masters degree preferred.
• Proven experience of product life cycle management in a large company working in a matrixed environment.
• Demonstrated history of meeting deadlines and achieving results while maintaining strong attention to details in a fast-paced, collaborative environment
• Expertise in standard business processes as it relates to product management with focus on sales & operations planning / S&OP.
• Excel power-user (advanced knowledge of pivot table & formulas)
• Hands-on ability of using BI tools & other visualization platforms for 360-degree product dashboards, reporting.
• Problem solving experience providing data-driven business insights
• Demonstrated ability to build KPIs, improve efficiency through process design, and work with cross functional teams to automate and implement processes that you have designed.
• Forecasting experience is a plus; statistical expertise (regression models) to help drive continuous improvement in forecasting.
• Advanced project management skills, sounding the alarm if projects/initiatives go off the tracks
• Demonstrated proficiency in analyzing and reporting metrics and trends

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The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this classification. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required of employees assigned to this position.
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