Product Manager

Yourgene Health; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Yourgene Health is seeking a full-time Product Manager to lead product vision and strategy at their Manchester headquarters. The role focuses on understanding customer needs, defining product roadmaps, and ensuring value creation through innovative solutions in molecular diagnostics. Join a vibrant team dedicated to advancing genomic medicine.

Qualifications

• Experience in product management within a technical field.
• Business experience in molecular diagnostics.

Responsibilities

• Owning and defining the product vision and strategy.
• Creating the strategic product roadmap.
• Evaluating opportunities and determining product delivery.

Skills

Strategic thinking

Collaboration

Communication

Customer-focused

Technically curious

Education

Product Management within a technical field

Business experience in molecular diagnostics

Job description

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Full Job Description

Job title: Product Manager

Reports to: Headof Product Management

Location: Hybrid - 2/3 days onsite at Manchester Science Park

Contract Type: Full-time, Permanent

Salary & Benefits: Competitive Salary + Benefits Package

About Yourgene Health:

Yourgene Health is a leading integrated technologies and services business, enabling the delivery of genomic medicine. The group works in partnership with global leaders in DNA technology to advance diagnostic science. Our mission to enable scientific advances to positively impact human health remains at the core of our focus. It drives and motivates us to develop class-leading products and services to meet our customers’ needs.

Yourgene primarily develops, manufactures, and commercializes simple and accurate molecular diagnostic solutions for reproductive health, precision medicine, and infectious diseases. We have a comprehensive offering of non-invasive prenatal tests (NIPT) NGS workflows that have been built with labs in mind, and clinical prenatal screening services. The IONA test was the pioneer, the first to market as an IVD product, changing the NIPT screening landscape back in 2015. Continuing to build on our expertise in cell-free DNA, our next-generation size selection Ranger Technology uses machine vision for superior precision. We offer multiple platforms for a range of clinical and research cfDNA sample preparation applications including NIPT, liquid biopsy, gene synthesis, and long fragment recovery.

In addition, we offer a portfolio of screening products in reproductive health, precision medicine, and infectious disease, including screening assays for cystic fibrosis and DPYD genotyping to prevent chemotoxicity.

Yourgene Genomic Services provides a range of genetic analysis services for our clinical, research, and pharma customers to support partners with DNA extractions, biobanking, genotyping, arrays, and sequencing workflows (WES and WGS). Our services include a Non-Invasive Prenatal Testing (NIPT) Service, enabling clinics to run their own NIPT service for pregnant women with our prenatal screening tests and service laboratory based in Manchester.

Yourgene Health is part of the Novacyt group of companies and is headquartered in Manchester, UK, with facilities in Singapore and Canada.

Our Culture:

Yourgene is a growing, vibrant, and exciting place to work. We are looking for committed, driven individuals to be part of our next growth journey. Our culture is described by our employees as collegiate, friendly, professional, innovative, open, and fast-paced. We have many social and wellbeing initiatives run by our Social Huddle that keep our sense of community alive during challenging times that the pandemic has thrown our way. At Yourgene, we focus on putting values-led programs in place to attract, retain, and develop our people. We want our people to have a career with Yourgene, and we ensure they are recognized and rewarded for their achievements and commitment. Everyone plays a critical role in our growth journey.

Description of role:

We are looking to recruit a full-time and permanent Product Manager based 2-3 days from our Manchester headquarters.

Every business depends on customers. What customers buy – or choose to use – is our product.

The product is the result of what the product team builds, and the product manager is responsible for what the product team will build.

The Product Manager is a strategic position in any organization and is responsible for ensuring customers can and do gain value from our products, and for understanding and interpreting new ways for us to create value.

They ensure we are building the right thing by really solving the right problem for the right customer and building the thing right, in order to create value and growth for the business.

Key areas of responsibility:

Product Management

• Owning and defining the product vision and strategy for the segment, ensuring that this resonates with users, meets user needs, and aligns with the company objectives and priorities.
• Creating the strategic product roadmap and communicating it across the business.

Discovery:

• Evaluating opportunities and determining what gets built and delivered to customers through the Gateway process.
• Leading on voice of customer.
• Providing R&D/Dev teams with curated, specific, and clear user stories and acceptance criteria. Collaborating with development to translate into product features, updates, or as part of NPD through a structured ideation process.

Delivery:

• Prioritising based on a deep understanding of acceptance and perceived value from the customer.
• Go-to-market plans.
• Value proposition and positioning.
• Customer/KOL collaborations to validate and beta test new updates/features.
• Strategic input into business development and key customer accounts to support business pillar leads.
• Pricing models with cross-functional support.

Qualifications, Skills, and Abilities:

Behaviours:

• Strategic thinker.
• Self-starter with excellent collaboration and communication skills.
• Technically curious and literate – ability to understand a range of molecular diagnostics workflows and technologies including NGS and PCR.
• Empathy - ability to empathize and develop a deep understanding of what success looks like for the customer.
• Customer-focused – able to put themselves into the shoes of the customer and build rapport.
• Curiosity – the desire to explore problems with the customer and understand the multi-faceted ways these can be resolved.
• Expectation of up to 20% travel – across UK, customers, and events globally as required.

Qualifications:

• Product Management within a technical field.
• Business experience in molecular diagnostics.

Closing Date:

Sunday 25th May, 2025.

Equal opportunities:

Yourgene Health and the Novacyt Group of companies provide equal employment opportunities for all current employees and applicants for employment. This policy means that no one will be discriminated against because of race, religion, creed, color, national origin, nationality, citizenship, ancestry, sex, age, marital status, physical or mental disability, affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity, military or veteran status, genetic predisposing characteristics, or any other basis prohibited by law.

Notice to Agency and Search Firm Representatives:

Yourgene Health and the Novacyt Group of companies do not accept unsolicited resumes from agencies and/or search firms for this job posting. Resumes submitted to any Yourgene Health and Novacyt Group employee by a third-party agency and/or search firm without a valid written and signed search agreement will become the sole property of Yourgene Health and the Novacyt Group of companies. No fee will be paid if a candidate is hired as a result of an unsolicited agency or search firm referral. Thank you.