Product Manager - Downstream and Validation Services
Merck Group.com
Office
Shanghai, Shanghai, CN, 200031
Full Time
Work Your Magic with us!
Ready to explore, break barriers, and discover more? We know you’ve got big plans – so do we! Our colleagues across the globe love innovating with science and technology to enrich people’s lives with our solutions in Healthcare, Life Science, and Electronics. Together, we dream big and are passionate about caring for our rich mix of people, customers, patients, and planet. That's why we are always looking for curious minds that see themselves imagining the unimaginable with us.
Your Role:
- Contribute to implementation of strategy and sales targets by managing of existing products and product lines throughout their life cycle
- Close collaboration with 3rd party manufacturer
- Execute marketing strategies operationally
- Product management of existing product portfolio
- Manage special client requests for existing product portfolio with the corresponding interfaces and drive them towards execution incl. customer facing communication
- Handle general product line inquiries and issues, such as change notifications, critical quality issues and critical supply disruptions
- Actively drive communication to sales and customers on supply disruptions
- Actively drive and continuously improve the customer change notification process
- Support investment planning and measures of operations by providing necessary deliverables
- Work closely with cross functional teams including Supply Chain, Value Chain, Procurement, Quality to ensure customer service level satisfaction
- Drive risk mitigation activities, e.g. second sourcing strategy, product and packaging improvement
- Bring modifications and structure measures to the product range short term and long term, e.g. life cycle product analysis
- Support new product launches and ensure addition of new products into the systems on time, including the collection of product information, coordination of the internal functions
- Drive and support various projects to optimize business targets, e.g. predefined strategic initiatives, complex change projects, portfolio analysis, customer complaints, compliance projects
- Optimize the processes towards speed and cost efficiency
Who You Are:
- Bachelors degree (master degree preferred) in business or natural science (preferred chemistry, biochemistry or pharma)
- Proven track record of managing complex projects including stakeholder management in a matrix environment
- 4+ years of professional experience within pharmaceutical or chemical industry: marketing, sales, technical service or some combination thereof
- Experience in supplier qualification, quality or manufacturing would be a plus
- Excellent verbal and written communication and presentation skills (Chinese/Mandarin, English)
What we offer: We are curious minds that come from a broad range of backgrounds, perspectives, and life experiences. We believe that this variety drives excellence and innovation, strengthening our ability to lead in science and technology. We are committed to creating access and opportunities for all to develop and grow at your own pace. Join us in building a culture of inclusion and belonging that impacts millions and empowers everyone to work their magic and champion human progress!
Apply now and become a part of a team that is dedicated to Sparking Discovery and Elevating Humanity!
Product Manager - Downstream and Validation Services
Office
Shanghai, Shanghai, CN, 200031
Full Time
October 17, 2025