Responsibilities

• Build application- and modality-based storytelling frameworks that connect customer needs, scientific trends, workflow challenges, and Thermo Fisher capabilities across multiple business units.
• Develop clear narrative architectures, messaging pillars, proof points, and activation guidance for priority research areas, workflows, applications, and modalities.
• Translate complex scientific, technical, and portfolio information into cohesive stories for campaigns, content, web, events, sales enablement, thought leadership, and commercial programs.
• Serve as a divisional connector and cross-company storytelling partner, identifying synergies across business units and helping teams move from product-centric messaging to integrated, science-led narratives.
• Partner with business unit marketing, portfolio marketing, integrated marketing, commercial, R&D, application science, and external agency teams to align on audience needs, claims, evidence, content priorities, and activation opportunities.
• Use customer, market, competitive, and portfolio insights to shape storytelling priorities and ensure narratives are relevant, differentiated, and commercially meaningful.
• Assess existing content, claims, scientific evidence, and portfolio assets to identify gaps, duplication, and opportunities to strengthen campaign readiness.
• Create repeatable tools, templates, and processes that enable marketing teams to build and activate cross-portfolio stories consistently.
• Support pilot activation plans, including content recommendations, channel considerations, commercial enablement needs, and success metrics.
• Influence stakeholders across a matrixed organization, driving alignment, clarity, and momentum around priority application and modality stories.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a life science discipline required.
• 5+ years of experience in life sciences marketing, scientific communications, portfolio marketing, content strategy, campaign strategy, or a related role within life sciences, biotechnology, diagnostics, biopharma, or scientific products.
• Strong scientific and application-level understanding, with the ability to translate complex technical topics into clear, compelling narratives for scientific and commercial audiences.
• Experience developing marketing strategies, messaging frameworks, content strategies, or integrated campaigns across multiple products, workflows, or business units.
• Ability to analyze customer, market, competitor, and portfolio inputs to identify strategic storytelling opportunities.
• Strong cross-functional leadership skills, including the ability to influence without authority and align stakeholders in a matrixed organization.
• Experience partnering with agencies and managing strategic deliverables from brief through executional handoff.
• Excellent written, verbal, presentation, and project management skills.

Preferred

• Advanced degree in a life science discipline or equivalent experience.
• Experience in biosciences, molecular biology, cell biology, protein biology, antibodies, imaging, flow cytometry, cell and gene therapy, synthetic biology, neuroscience, oncology, immunology, or related research areas.
• Experience developing disease-area, application-area, workflow, or modality-based marketing strategies.
• Familiarity with claims development, scientific evidence mapping, content governance, legal/regulatory review, and commercial enablement.
• Experience working in a global organization with regional marketing and commercial teams.

Benefits

• 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