Product Manager, Mass Spectrometry

IMI plc
We are a global specialist engineering company that creates breakthrough solutions. We are curious and like to solve problems, partnering with our customers to solve the demands of today and prepare for the challenges of tomorrow. We embrace innovation and care about outcomes that are good for business, everyday life and making a better world – creating lasting impact for everyone.

We design, build and service highly engineered products in fluid and motion control applications. We focus on five market sectors:
Industrial Automation, Process Automation, Climate Control, Life Science, and Transport.

Our partnership approach breaks through problems and reduces complexity. We don’t invent in isolation – we collaborate with our customers. We listen closely and we think differently, creating space for diverse minds to innovate. We are working together to make businesses safer, more sustainable and more productive.

This is an exciting opportunity to join our Life Science Sector as Product Manager for our Mass Spectrometry portfolio. You will own market and product strategy, customer discovery, portfolio decisions, technology roadmap alignment, and Growth Hub execution across the full product lifecycle, acting as the voice of the customer and a technical product leader for mass spectrometry technologies and applications.

This is a hybrid role, with a preference for candidates based in the Northeast USA. Travel is expected up to 25% for customer visits, trade shows, distribution partners, manufacturing sites, and scientific conferences such as ASMS and Analytica.

• Product Strategy and
  
  Roadmap:
  
  Own and communicate the product and portfolio roadmap for the mass spectrometry portfolio, aligning priorities with customer workflow needs, application requirements, product performance, and Life Science growth objectives.
• Voice of the Customer: Engage directly with instrument designers and analytical scientists to capture customer opportunities – unmet needs, pain points, and desires – across quadrupole, time-of-flight (TOF), and other platforms.
• Requirements Definition: Translate customer insights, market opportunities, and application needs into clear product requirements that inform roadmap priorities, customer value, and NPI decisions, while partnering with site engineering teams that lead technical requirements definition and execution of the technology roadmap.
• New Product Introduction: Partner with R&D, engineering, operations, quality, applications, commercial teams, and finance to advance NPI by validating customer opportunities, building business cases, and ensuring technical execution remains aligned to customer value, portfolio priorities, and commercial objectives.
• Application Support: Provide technical and application support to customers on the selection, integration, and optimization of mass spectrometry components, including detectors, ion optics, vacuum interfaces, and related technologies.
• Competitive and Technology Analysis: Monitor advances in detection technology, ionization techniques, and competitor product performance to inform positioning and differentiation
• Lifecycle and Portfolio Management: Manage the full product lifecycle – pricing, margin, obsolescence, and rationalization – across the mass spectrometry portfolio.
• Commercial Enablement: Develop technical collateral, application notes, and datasheets, and train sales and distribution partners on the science behind the portfolio.

• Bachelor’s degree in Analytical Chemistry, Chemistry, Physics, Engineering, Life Sciences, or a related technical field; advanced degree preferred.
• Deep working knowledge of mass spectrometry principles, including ionization, mass analysis, and ion detection
• Hands‑on experience with MS instrumentation (quadrupole, TOF, ion trap, magnetic sector, or ICP‑MS)
• Understanding of ion detector technologies – electron multipliers, microchannel plates, and Faraday/scintillation detection
• Understanding of front‑end separation techniques and instrumentation, including HPLC, LC, GC, and related analytical workflows
• Experience translating…