Group Product Manager Role - BioTech / HealthTech 12 Month Fixed-Term Contract Hybrid, London (2-4 days per month on site) Salary from £92,000 Futureheads is partnered with a pioneering BioTech org that's creating products and services to enable cutting edge research and improve the health of patients across the NHS and beyond.
With a core focus on genome sequencing, our client is pushing boundaries across both technology and science, paving the way for new personalised and preventative healthcare experiences that will bring benefits to millions of people.
It's exciting, challenging, and highly rewarding work.
And they're now looking to recruit a Group Product Manager with a scientific background to help them on this journey.
As a Group Product Manager, you'll be leading a team of 5 PMs and oversee a product area that's essentially the heart and engine of their genome sequencing capabilities, thus underpinning much of the work that happens across the org.
It's a platform that comprises multiple complex data products and will ultimately suit somebody who loves to create scientific and technical systems at a massive scale that can handle petabytes of data without a hitch.
You will be responsible for ensuring the squads in your product area meet user needs and provide all the right tools to enable and accelerate research.
Furthermore, as a dedicated line manager, you will be accountable for the performance and growth of the product managers on your team, proving the right coaching and mentoring to ensure they're set up for success.
This is an opportunity to combine your communication, leadership, problem solving and defining skills to take responsibility for groundbreaking products that will directly impact the advances of personalised genomic medicines in the UK.
Responsibilities include: Understand and stay informed of the key market, competitive, technical, scientific, clinical implications to lead the product area effectively.
Ensure your users are happy, supported, and getting value from your product area.
Expect to interface regularly with clinicians and geneticists from the NHS, academic research, and pharma companies.
Incorporate data into all decision making.
Ensure key metrics are tracked and remain healthy across your product area.
Collaborative with your product managers to define your product area vision and strategy.
Help align your product managers' roadmaps to your strategy and ensure your product managers communicate their roadmaps effectively.
Manage successful outcomes for users and the business in your product area by ensuring squads achieve their OKRs.
Define and prioritise the focus of the squads in your area.
Ensure they balance maintenance and new development, follow best practice for continuous discovery and delivery, and maintain product compliance.
Include many perspectives to identify and solve problems quickly and effectively in your product area to make rapid progress.
Take ownership of and resolve problems and risks for the product area.
Communicate priorities, commitments, and manage stakeholders.
Ensure squads in your area are supported, motivated, and effective.
These squads are made up of both technical and scientific disciplines.
Take accountability for the performance and growth of the product managers you manage.
Skills and experience for success: Experience leading complex scientific software product areas from discovery to running live.
Track record of setting and achieving impactful outcomes for the products you have led.
Able to demonstrate deep knowledge of applying best practice in all key areas of product management, including user centricity, analytical skills, prioritisation approaches, storytelling, and learning quickly about the market landscape.
Experience managing people, including ability to mentor, coach and create a collaborative environment.
Experience defining and executing successful product strategies for complex data and scientific products.
Experience of agile development/delivery of digital services grounded in discovery and delivery best practices and continuous improvement.
Successful at (and enjoy) collaborating with people from a variety of backgrounds including scientific and clinical SMEs.
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 and decision maker who likes to figure stuff out rather than explaining why it can't be done.
Qualifications: Advanced degree or experience in life sciences required.