A growing global life science tools organization is seeking a commercially minded scientific leader to drive growth across its Small Molecules & Peptides portfolio in North America.
This is a highly visible role for someone who understands drug discovery workflows and wants the opportunity to shape strategy, influence commercialization efforts, and make a direct impact within a collaborative, agile environment.
The position sits at the intersection of science, commercialization, customer engagement, and market strategy — ideal for someone who enjoys translating technical workflows into meaningful commercial growth initiatives.
This is not a purely tactical marketing role. The successful candidate will help drive market strategy, support product commercialization efforts, guide technical application priorities, and work closely with customers, sales teams, and internal technical stakeholders.
For someone coming from a larger organization, this opportunity offers significantly more ownership, visibility, and influence over both strategy and execution.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Drive downstream commercial strategy and market growth initiatives across the Small Molecules & Peptides segment
- Work closely with sales teams and customers to support technical and commercial discussions
- Help shape go-to-market activities and commercialization plans for new and existing technologies
- Guide and prioritize application development activities alongside a team of application scientists
- Identify market trends, customer needs, and competitive positioning opportunities
- Support conferences, customer events, and industry engagement activities across North America
- Collaborate cross-functionally with product management, technical teams, applications, and marketing
- Develop strategic messaging, customer-facing content, and sales enablement tools
- Influence regional marketing campaigns and growth initiatives while leveraging support from a dedicated MARCOM team
What They’re Looking For
- Strong understanding of small molecule drug discovery, peptide synthesis, and purification workflows
- Technical credibility and ability to engage confidently with highly scientific customer groups
- Experience working within pharma, biotech, CRO, academic, or life science tools environments
- Commercial, product marketing, applications, or technical customer-facing experience
- Ability to operate independently and contribute strategic ideas proactively
- Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills
- Experience supporting commercialization, market development, or downstream marketing activities
- Prior leadership or mentorship experience is helpful, though not mandatory
Ideal Backgrounds May Include
- Applications Scientists transitioning into commercial leadership roles
- Product or segment marketing professionals within life science tools
- Scientists with customer-facing commercial experience
- Individuals from peptide synthesis, purification, chromatography, or drug discovery-focused organizations
Why This Opportunity Stands Out
- High-impact role with visible influence across the business
- Opportunity to help shape market strategy and commercialization direction
- Collaborative, low-politics environment with strong autonomy
- Ability to make meaningful contributions quickly
- Exposure to new product launches and strategic growth initiatives
- Strong cross-functional visibility and leadership exposure
- Hybrid environment with national customer and conference engagement
Hybrid work environment
Competitive base salary + annual bonus + relocation support available
