Katie Evans Email & Phone Number

United Kingdom

Wilmslow, England, United Kingdom

A senior management role responsible for a team looking after all aspects of Product Management, Product Marketing and Product Owners of the waters_connect for quantitation software solution. A key role negotiating the needs of the quantitation workflow with other portfolio owners, and ensuring high quality products are released on time that solve problems for our customers, with associated marketing collateral to feed marketing campaigns.

Wilmslow, England, United Kingdom

Principal Product Manager for the waters_connect for quantitation workflow solution, a next generation Mass Spec software solution supporting quantitative analysis on tandem quadrupole LS-MS/MS systems. Managing the product roadmap, and creating thoughtful data driven business cases and financial models to secure funding for proposed development programs.

Manchester, Uk

Senior Product Manager for the Thermo Fisher Scientific flagship LIMS product• Manage the entire product life cycle from strategic planning, through high level product backlog definition to execution of company-wide go-to-market plans.- Create compelling business cases and financial models for future product developments.- Define the product scope, translating business needs through requirements into user stories with close cooperation with the product development team.- Understand and inject regulatory compliance and security needs - Manage release planning, commercialization and go to market activities- Represent the customer supporting on-going decision making and requirement clarification throughout the course of development.- Work with the Marketing team, developing positioning material, marketing plans and messaging.- Support the commercialisation roll out process globally, acting as an internal and external evangelist for the product.• Develop and present material for both technical and business-focused audiences.• Define and communicate the product strategy and roadmap.• Establish pricing models for the product portfolio to ensure that developments are offering the maximum Return on Investment.• Gather voice of customer through customers and prospect meetings and advisory boards, as well as engaging with the wider business, to understand trends and help identify and support development of new product capabilities to meet the changing needs of the market place. • Pro-actively communicate effectively with all stakeholders in the software development process and business leadership.• In depth understanding of the discipline of Product Management.• Experience of working within a globally distributed team.

Manchester, Uk

Product Manager for the Thermo Fisher Scientific flagship LIMS product• Manage the entire product line life cycle from strategic planning to tactical activities. • Embrace the Pragmatic Marketing Framework, performing market-driven analysis to drive product evolution.• Juggle daily tactical demands with the strategic activities necessary to run the product like a profitable business.• Specify market requirements for current and future products by conducting market research supported by on-going visits to customers and non-customers. • Drive a solution set across development teams (primarily Development/Engineering, and Marketing Communications) through market requirements, product contract, and positioning. • Develop and implement a company-wide go-to-market plan, working with all departments to execute. • Analyze potential partner relationships for the product.

Uncovered customers critical business issues and customised LIMS software demos to address the key customer needs and win sales.

Organised and ran JAD (Joint Application Development) meetings including JAD partners from 8 companies.Understood the business software requirements for current development areas.Acted as the interface between the JAD partners and the development team.Maintained the JAD web site.

Project Manager and service provider to install, customise, train, and roll out SampleManager LIMS implementations.