Product Manager (10 Month FTC)

Genomics England; London; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Join Genomics England as a Product Manager/Product Owner on a 10-month fixed-term contract, leading the rare disease genome analysis pipeline product. Collaborate with scientists and engineers to innovate and enhance genomic healthcare, translating user needs into impactful solutions. Further opportunities include mentoring and fostering a collaborative environment, with a supportive benefits package including a generous pension scheme and extensive wellness benefits.

Benefits

30 days' holiday (plus bank holidays)

15% combined pension contribution

Life Assurance (3 x salary)

Individual learning budgets

Wellness benefits including Gympass and Headspace

Blended working arrangements

Qualifications

• Experience leading a team as Product Manager/Product Owner.
• Experience building complex scientific software products.
• Experience working collaboratively with diverse teams.

Responsibilities

• Communicate the product vision to multidisciplinary teams.
• Take responsibility for the product roadmap and delivery.
• Interface regularly with clinicians and geneticists.

Skills

Leadership

Collaboration

Problem Solving

Stakeholder Influence

Agile Development

Education

Experience in Complex Data Products

Experience in Scientific Software Development

Job description

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Company Description

Genomics England partners with the NHS to provide whole genome sequencing diagnostics. We also equip researchers to find the causes of disease and develop new treatments - with patients and participants at the heart of it all.

Our mission is to continue refining, scaling, and evolving our ability to enable others to deliver genomic healthcare and conduct genomic research.

We are accelerating our impact and working with patients, doctors, scientists, government and industry to improve genomic testing, and help researchers access the health data and technology they need to make new medical discoveries and create more effective, targeted medicines for everybody.

Job Description

10 Month FTC, Mat leave cover

We have an opportunity for a Product Manager or Product Owner to join our team on a 10 month fixed-term contract.

Are you a skilled Product Manager or Product Owner with previous experience working with scientists and engineers to build complex scientific software?

We're looking for someone to own our rare disease genome analysis pipeline product. Rare diseases, on aggregate, aren't so rare! Nearly 1 in 10 people are affected by a rare disease. The product utilises cutting-edge genomics techniques to analyse genomes and provide insights on diagnosis, prognosis and therapeutic outcomes for patients with rare diseases. It's both a key component of the Genomic Medicine Service - a live service run in partnership with the NHS - and used by research teams to advance scientific research.

Some of the problems to solve in this area will require you to work collaboratively with users and inject more innovation to the methods we use. For example, improving our algorithms using Machine Learning techniques.

Working closely with the Group Product Manager and the Head of Genomic Data Sciences, you'll be the facilitator of the products we build. This is an opportunity for you to combine your communication, leadership, and defining skills to take responsibility for one of our groundbreaking scientific products that will directly impact the advances of personalised genomic medicines in the UK.

Everyday responsibilities include:

• Communicate the product vision to the team
• Lead, organise, inspire and unblock designers, developers, data scientists, bioinformaticians, and others within the multidisciplinary team with sharp analysis and well-communicated decisions
• Take responsibility for the product roadmap, breaking up delivery into meaningful, achievable goals
• Interpret how customers use our live products and translate that data into new opportunities for features that solve real problems. Expect to interface regularly with clinicians and geneticists from the NHS, academic research, and pharma companies
• Translate user needs into compelling stories designers can use to draw user flows and interactions, and developers can use to build the product
• Define how your products get held to account, and make sure those metrics get tracked, including commercial accountability
• Advocate and promote work across GEL to encourage champions and early adopters

Skills and experience for success:

• Experience of leading a team as a Product Manager or Product Owner, including ability to mentor, coach and create a collaborative environment
• Experience taking a complex scientific software product from discovery to running live (Desirable)
• Experience building and navigating complex data products
• Experience of agile development/delivery of digital services
• Successful at (and enjoy) collaborating with people from a variety of backgrounds
• Able to influence a range of stakeholders at a variety of seniorities but also willing to listen and take on board other opinions and ideas
• Highly proactive and a practical problem solver who likes to figure stuff out rather than explaining why it can't be done

Qualifications

Additional Information

Being an integral part of such a meaningful mission is extremely rewarding in itself, but in order to support our people, we're continually improving our benefits package. We pride ourselves on investing in our people and supporting them to achieve their career goals, as well as offering a benefits package including:

• 30 days' holiday (plus bank holidays), with additional days for long service awards
• A generous pension scheme of up to 15% combined contribution
• Life Assurance (3 x salary)
• Individual learning budgets for every colleague, a Blinkist account and a wide variety of courses on our portal
• A wide variety of wellness benefits including Gympass, a Headspace account, free weekly Yoga classes
• Enhanced maternity & paternity benefits
• Blended working arrangements

Talk to our Talent Team and find out how a career with Genomics England will benefit you.

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As part of our recruitment process, all successful candidates are subject to a Standard Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. We therefore require applicants to disclose any previous offences at point of application, as some unspent convictions may mean we are unable to proceed with your application due to the nature of our work in healthcare.

Genomics England operates a blended working model as we know our people appreciate the flexibility. We expect most people to come into the office 2 times each month as a minimum. However, this will vary according to role and will be agreed with your team leader. For some people this is 1 day a quarter, for others it is several days a week. There is no expectation that staff will return to the office full time unless they want to. The exception would be some of our roles that would require you to be on site full time e.g., lab teams, reception team.

Our teams and squads have, and will continue to, reflect on what works best for them to work together successfully and have the freedom to design working patterns to suit, beyond the minimum. Our office locations are Canary Wharf, Cambridge and Leeds.

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