Harvard Bioscience Inc.

Senior Director Marketing

Harvard Bioscience Inc.$160K — $190K *
Pharmaceuticals & Biotech
11 - 15 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in life sciences, business, marketing or related field; MBA or advanced scientific degree preferred.
  • 12+ years of progressive experience in life science tools, biopharmaceutical or commercial sales and marketing.
  • 10 years of specialty brand marketing experience, including digital marketing.
  • 5 years of leadership experience managing high-performing teams.
  • Strong command of strategic marketing, launch planning, and customer engagement.

Responsibilities

  • Provide strategic and day-to-day leadership across the marketing team and cross-functional partners.
  • Drive launch readiness, market shaping, and lifecycle planning across the organization.
  • Oversee integrated go-to-market planning and educational initiatives for field readiness.
  • Build a high-performing culture with a focus on execution excellence and sustainable growth.
  • Lead the evolution of marketing capabilities and processes to support long-term objectives.
  • Leverage data and customer insights to optimize marketing performance.
  • Establish best practices for brand planning and operational excellence.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to lead and shape marketing strategies for a leading life sciences company.
  • Work in a cross-functional environment with senior leaders.
  • Potential for professional growth in a dynamic industry.
  • Engage with cutting-edge life science tools and technologies.
  • Flexible travel requirements with a focus on work-life balance.
Full Job Description
THE OPPORTUNITY

The Sr. Director of Marketing, through practical and visionary leadership, is responsible for defining and executing the overall Harvard Bioscience marketing vision and commercialization strategy to drive successful brand performance, launch readiness market shaping, long-term business growth.

Essential Job Functions

Provide strategic and day-to-day leadership across the team and key cross-functional partners, ensuring alignment of the Harvard Bioscience brand positioning, segmentation, messaging, customer services and business objectives across the organization. This leader will be responsible for lifecycle planning, launch execution, organizational capability, building and developing high-impact marketing strategies grounded deeply within the life science tool space.

Strategic Leadership
  • Lead and development and execution of the Harvard Bioscience vision and commercial strategy in partnership with other key cross functional leaders.
  • Drive launch readiness, market shaping, existing product performance, lifecycle planning and customer engagement strategies across the Harvard Bioscience organization.
  • Oversee integrated go-to-market planning and applications education, engagement and field readiness initiatives.
  • Build and maintain a high-performing commercial culture focused on purpose-driven executional excellence and sustainable business performance.

Marketing Capabilities and Performance
  • Lead the evolution of Harvard Bioscience marketing capabilities, processes and organizational efficiencies to support launch excellence and long-term growth.
  • Drive integrated customer engagement strategies tailored to life science tools industry.
  • Leverage data, analytics, and customer insights to optimize marketing performance and business outcomes.
  • Ensure alignment and execution across extended brands and cross-functional stakeholders.
  • Establish best practices for brand planning, operational excellence and launch preparedness.

skills and experience
  • Strong command of strategic marketing, launch planning, customer engagement strategy and execution and analysis.
  • Strong communication, relationship management and cross-functional leadership skills
  • Strong executive presence and presentation skills.
  • Ability to build application-based marketing literature and presentations

Education and Experience and/or equivalent
  • Bachelor's degree in life sciences, business, marketing or related field. MBA or advanced scientific degree. Preferred.
  • 12+ years of progressive experience in life science tools, biopharmaceutical, commercial experience sales, marketing, market access or launch commercialization.
  • 10 years of specialty brand marketing experience, digital marketing,
  • 5 years of leadership experience developing high-performing teams.

travel

10% - 25%

About Harvard Bioscience Inc.

Harvard Bioscience, Inc. is a global developer, manufacturer and marketer of a broad range of specialized products, primarily apparatus and scientific instruments, used to advance life science research and regenerative medicine. Our products are sold to thousands of researchers in over 100 countries primarily through our dedicated direct sales force. We are a leader in the market segments we serve, with a focus on improving the accuracy and efficiency of research, including in drug discovery, neuroscience, stem cell research, cell biology and regenerative medicine. Our product portfolio includes over 10,000 products marketed under well-known and respected brand names such as Harvard Apparatus, Denville Scientific, and BTX. We have a diverse customer base, including leading research institutions, pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, academic and government laboratories, hospitals and reference laboratories.
Learn more about Harvard Bioscience Inc.
Size
475 employees
Market Cap
$106.7 million
Industry
Net Income
-$7.8 million
Founded
1901
5 Year Trend
+2.6%
Revenue
$102.1 million
NASDAQ

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