Sr Director, Business Management (BioPharma)

CompanyThermo Fisher Scientific

LocationHorsham, England, United Kingdom

Posted At1/23/2026

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Description

Work Schedule

Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions

Office

As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you’ll discover meaningful work that impacts the world positively. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life daily. We enable customers to make the world healthier, cleaner, and safer. We provide global teams with resources to achieve career goals. We develop solutions for tough challenges like protecting the environment, ensuring food safety, and finding cancer cures.

The job:

As Sr Director, Business Management (BioPharma Market Segment), you will define and drive Thermo Fisher Scientific’s worldwide Bio/Pharma market strategy within our Chromatography and Mass Spectrometry Division (CMD). As a senior leader, you will establish the vision, uncover emerging opportunities, and develop go-to-market strategies that correspond to customer needs throughout the drug development lifecycle.

This role is office-based at a variety of our sites globally. For the right candidate, we may consider a remote role (working from home). Regular international travel will be required – up to 50% of working time (at times), including overnight stays.

What will you do?

Partnering with other group and divisional leaders, own the evolution and execution of the CMD division’s multi-year strategy for Bio/Pharma Beyond Discovery.
Drive the integration of service and support, software, analytical instruments and consumables into end-to-end workflows supporting areas such as biologics characterization and vaccine development.
Identify and develop strategic partnerships and alliances with key customers, regulatory bodies, and industry participants. Collaborate with other divisions to harness full Thermo Fisher value within differentiated solutions for both existing and new customers in Analytical Development and Manufacturing/Quality Control.
Drive market segmentation, opportunity assessment, and prioritization to ensure alignment with CMD growth objectives.
Collaborate with various product management teams to ensure solutions address critical customer needs, regulatory trends, and new technologies.
Guide the creation of compelling value propositions and go-to-market strategies for new product introductions and workflow solutions. Partner with regional commercial teams to translate the global strategy into localized execution plans.

Partner with Commercial, Services and the product businesses to provide a comprehensive post-sales support package that fulfils future customer requirements.

Lead and develop strong teams in business development and marketing, scaling both to meet the aspirational growth expectations.

Who we are looking for:

Required: bachelor's degree or equivalent experience; preferred: MBA or similar background.
Multiple years experience within the Bio/Pharma industry, with a strong record of leadership in market development, strategic marketing or business development.
Validated experience driving business growth through coordinated workflows, product commercialization, and customer-centric innovation.
Deep understanding of biopharmaceutical development workflows and analytical technologies supporting discovery, development, and manufacturing.
Strong leadership skills to engage, empower, influence and motivate colleagues at all levels. Experience leading global teams and operating in a matrixed organization across a wide map of collaborators.
Excellent communication and presentation skills across all levels of employee groups. Able to present convincing arguments to senior executives.

Strong intuition for business with validated ability to translate scientific and technical insights into commercial success.

Advanced level of English language (written and spoken).

What’s in it for you:

We offer competitive remuneration, an annual incentive plan bonus scheme and a range of employee benefits! Thermo Fisher Scientific offers employment with an innovative, forward-thinking organization, and outstanding career and development prospects. We offer an exciting company culture that stands for integrity, intensity, involvement, and innovation.

Compensation And Benefits

The salary range estimated for this position based in United Kingdom is £111,800.00–£167,675.00.

This position may also be eligible to receive a variable annual bonus based on company, team, and/or individual performance results in accordance with company policy. We offer a comprehensive Total Rewards package that our U.S. colleagues and their families can count on, which includes:

A choice of national medical and dental plans, and a national vision plan, including health incentive programs
Employee assistance and family support programs, including commuter benefits and tuition reimbursement

At least 120 hours paid time off (PTO), 10 paid holidays annually, paid parental leave (3 weeks for bonding and 8 weeks for caregiver leave), accident and life insurance, and short- and long-term disability in accordance with company policy

Retirement and savings programs, such as our competitive 401(k) U.S. retirement savings plan

Employees’ Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) offers eligible colleagues the opportunity to purchase company stock at a discount

For more information on our benefits, please visit: https://jobs.thermofisher.com/global/en/total-rewards