Job Description

Product Manager
Location: Pune, Hybrid
Status: Permanent, Full Time
Package: Competitive Salary (fixed), 5 Day Working Week, Remote/Home Working (with one-off allowance), Flexible Working, Development & Opportunity (Personal & Technical), Group Medical Policy, Group OPD Cover, Personal Accident Cover, Term Life Cover, 26 Days Leave + 9 Public Holidays + Buy & Sell Scheme, Referral Scheme.
Who's Instem?
Well, we're a global provider of bespoke industry-leading software solutions and services, which facilitate the pre-clinical, and clinical phases of the drug discovery process. We have over fifteen products in our portfolio, used by over 700 pharmaceutical clients (including all the top 20!)
What's the culture/environment like? For a global business of over 300 staff, we very much have a family feel. You'll be part of a friendly, communal, solution based, flexible environment, where you'll feel empowered, valued and accountable. We'll invest in you as a person and encourage you to take part in companywide workshops for wellbeing, mental health, critical conversations, and strengths.
Why are we hiring a Product Manager?
We are building our Product team and would love for a customer-obsessed product manager to join us on this journey!
Reporting to the Director of Product, the product manager will help guide product(s) to success, balancing customer needs, business priorities, and technical constraints, while providing leadership and a strategic outlook that is vital for the company's growth and competitiveness.
What are you responsible for?
The Product Manager is responsible for steering the product to agreed commercial goals and ensuring that customers love the product(s).

• Interpreting the needs of the market for the product and identifying the most cost-effective means of meeting those needs.
• Defining and communicating a clear product vision and strategy. Also ensuring it aligns with the broader business objectives and client needs.
• Engaging directly with users, gathering insights, and deeply understanding their pain points and desires.
• Collaborating with other product managers, engineers and UX designers to come up with effective solutions that are valuable, viable, usable and feasible.
• Be a go-to-person for the product(s) with a deep knowledge of our users and customers, and the data about how our customers engage with our products.
• Manage the product backlog along with engineering and design teams. Break down complex product requirements into actionable user stories for engineering teams.
• Define acceptance criteria and ensure thorough understanding of technical, regulatory, and risk considerations.
• Promoting their product through sales support and marketing activities, ensuring the appropriate marketing materials are available to effectively promote the product
• Developing and maintaining a financial model for their product that demonstrates its commercial value to the organisation in terms of expenditure and revenues over the long term (past, present and future)
• Track industry trends and analyse competitive landscape of the product area
• Adherence to the Company's Quality Management System to ensure that all work is handled Securely, Professionally and Diligently

Skills, Knowledge & Experience

• Passionate about product management
• A seasoned product manager - 3+ years of experience working on technology-powered products as a product manager
• Working knowledge of non-GLP in-vitro assay workflows used in drug discovery, such as high-throughput screening (HTS), dose-response experiments, and cell-based or biochemical assays.
• Familiarity with in-vitro DMPK (Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics) assays such as CYP inhibition, metabolic stability, plasma protein binding, and permeability (e.g. PAMPA, Caco-2).
• Understanding of assay data management challenges, including assay request workflows, results capture, normalization, QC, and data visualization/reporting needs for discovery scientists.
• Experience working with or building software tools for screening data analysis, ELNs, LIMS, or other lab informatics systems in pharmaceutical or biotech research settings.
• Comfortable engaging with bench scientists, lab managers, and data analysts to understand use cases, pain points, and priorities in a wet lab setting.
• Knowledge of SAR (structure-activity relationship) analysis workflows and how in-vitro data feeds into compound design decisions.
• Demonstrated understanding of the techniques and methods of modern product discovery and product delivery.
• Understanding of multiple functional areas of business - engineering, design, finance, sales, or marketing.
• Creative and influential in solving problems that enables customers to get best value from their investment in our products
• Keen sense of prioritization, balancing short-term gains with long-term strategic goals, and ensuring the team focuses on what will deliver the most value.
• Ability to influence your teammates, colleagues, stakeholders, and key executives, through use of data, logic and business priorities. Must be able to inspire and motivate cross-functional teams, often without formal authority.
• Proven ability to engage with engineers, designers, and company leaders in a constructive and collaborative relationship.
• Ability to present to large and small audiences and to support sales activities

An Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.
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