Product Manager, Mass Spectrometry

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. Weembrace 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, andTransport.

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.

About the role

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.

Work Environment: This is a hybrid role, with a preference for candidates based in Sydney, Australia. Travel is expected up to 25% to 50% for customer visits, trade shows, distribution partners, manufacturing sites, and scientific conferences such as ASMS and Analytica.

Key responsibilities

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 Production Information: 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.

Applications 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.

About you

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 scientific and customer needs into product requirements that inform engineering, manufacturing, and commercial decisions

Product management or product ownership experience in a technical B2B or OEM environment

Ability to engage credibly with PhD-level scientists and instrument design engineers

Strong analytical and data interpretation skills

Excellent written and verbal communication, including authoring technical documentation

Ability to manage a portfolio across the full product lifecycle

Strong commercial acumen and customer focus

Ability to operate effectively in a dynamic, cross-functional environment

Health & Safety

Continuously improving and reviewing both our safety and operational practices to ensure that our Safety and Environmental Targets are always achieved and exceeded.

Ensuring that regulatory requirements with regards to HSE shall be the minimum objective of the Company with provision of a safe and accident-free workplace the overall objective.

Commitment to regular discussions with employees to ensure HSE issues are reviewed.

Empower all our employees to STOP WORK and Think Twice (Stop-Call-Wait) if they believe a condition exists that may be hazardous to the health and safety of themselves, to those around them, or a risk to the environment. Also to challenge any observed unsafe behaviours.

Ensure hazards and incidents are immediately reported, investigated where appropriate and, where possible, control measures implemented to eliminate or reduce the risk of recurrence

Zero lost time and recordable incidents.

Ensuring the target of four “Safers” per employee with 90% close out rate within 30 days.

Participating in weekly GEMBA walks.

100% completion of all mandatory annual HSE training.

Dedication to environmental initiatives and the company ambition of zero carbon emissions by 2040.

Code of Ethics

IMI requires the highest standard of ethics in all business dealings, particularly with customers, suppliers, advisors, employees, and the authorities. In accordance with the IMI Way: Our Code of Responsible Business.

IMI is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to age, race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, marital status, affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, nationality, sex, or veteran status.

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