Senior Strategic Product Planning Scientist
GenScript
Senior Strategic Product Planning Scientist
GenScript
Global CRO and biologics CDMO services
Founded in 2002 in New Jersey, GenScript Biotech Corporation accelerates innovation in biotech and healthcare by providing researchers and companies with the building blocks needed to develop groundbreaking treatments and products. Guided by its mission to Make People and Nature Healthier Through Biotechnology, and its role as a well-recognized biotechnology company, GenScript has a team of approximately 6,165 employees and has served more than 200,000 customers across over 100 countries and regions.
Senior Scientist, Product Planning and Development, Scientific Product Strategy – Life Science & Biotech Reagents
Position Type: Full-time, Strategic/Front-end Portfolio Management
This is a front-end product strategy and planning role where you'll define what GenScript should build over the next 3–5 years by identifying unmet customer needs, evaluating emerging technologies, and shaping the future portfolio of life science research reagents.
Location: Piscataway, New Jersey
Compensation: The estimated salary range is $125,000 - $155,000 based upon experience level.
Job Scope:
At GenScript, we believe great products begin long before the first experiment. As a Senior Strategic Product Planning Scientist - Life Science Reagents, under GenScript's Catalog Products Business Unit, you won't simply manage existing products—you will design the future of our life science research portfolio.
This role sits at the intersection of science, technology, customer insight, and business strategy, helping define WHAT products GenScript should build over the next 3–5 years. Focused purely on front-end strategic planning, you will define the target specifications (What) while liberating R&D to explore the best execution (How).
You will work closely with R&D, Marketing, Business Development, Commercial, and executive leadership to discover unmet customer needs, identify emerging technology opportunities, design high-barrier product portfolios, and shape long-term innovation strategy.
Key Responsibilities (What You'll Do):
1) Design Future Product Portfolio & Roadmaps
2) Customer Insights & Actionable VOC
3) Shape Innovation & Platform Strategy
4) Connect Science with Business
Education:
Experience:
We are looking for an individual who seamlessly combines scientific depth with corporate strategic thinking. Preferred experience includes one or more of the following:
Highly Desirable: Experience and service in Early Discovery, Platform Development, or CMC within biopharma or top-tier CROs.
A Strong Plus: Direct experience interacting with biopharma customers, supporting business development, technical marketing, or corporate strategic planning.
Core Competencies:
What Makes You Successful:
You are someone who naturally enjoys asking questions such as:
You possess the rare ability to synthesize Scientific Innovation, Customer Insight, Business Opportunity, and Technology Strategy into clear, decisive product definitions.
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Benefits:
Benefits include medical, dental, and vision insurance as well as a 401(k) retirement plan with a company match that vests fully on day one. We offer paid parental leave after just three (3) months of employment, and a paid time off policy that includes vacation time, personal time, sick time, floating holidays, and company holidays. Additional benefits include flexible spending and health savings accounts, life and AD&D insurance, short- and long-term disability coverage, legal assistance, and supplemental plans such as pet, critical illness, accident, and hospital indemnity insurance. We also provide commuter benefits, well-being initiatives, and peer-to-peer recognition programs; demonstrating our ongoing commitment to building a culture where our people feel empowered, supported, and inspired to do their best work.
GenScript USA Inc/ProBio Inc. is a proud equal opportunity/affirmative action employer committed to attracting, retaining, and maximizing the performance of a diverse and inclusive workforce. It is the Company's policy to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment based on race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, national origin, marital or domestic/civil partnership status, genetic information, citizenship status, uniformed service member or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
GenScript USA Inc./ProBio Inc. maintains a drug-free workplace.
Please note: Genscript USA Inc./ProBio Inc. will only contact candidates through verified application sources. GenScript/Probio does not request personal information from candidates through individual email or any other platform.
Salary: 125000.0 - 155000.0
GenScript Biotech Corporation is a global CRO and biologics CDMO that provides life-science services and products. Its offerings include gene synthesis, peptide synthesis, protein expression and purification, antibody development, and CRISPR, with ProBio handling end-to-end cell/gene therapy development, Bestzyme making industrial enzymes, and Legend Biotech pursuing cell therapies like CAR-T. The company differentiates itself by operating across four platforms to offer end-to-end support from research to commercialization for a wide customer base in over 100 countries. Its goal is to help customers advance drug discovery and biopharmaceutical development, scale manufacturing, and bring cell and gene therapies to market.
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