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Company DescriptionGenomics 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 DescriptionProduct Manager – (FTC10 Months)Genomics England partner with the NHS to provide whole genome sequencing diagnostics for patients with rare disease and cancer. Each genome is composed of a huge amount of data that needs to be analysed by Clinical Scientists located across seven region hubs in England to determine if there is a genetic component to their disease.Genomics England provides an Interpretation Platform, to enable Clinical Scientists access to the results, decision support tooling, and a knowledgebase of those interpretation decisions, in order to support them in the important and complex task of genomic interpretation.This is a 10mth FTC, maternity cover, for a Product Manager within the Interpretation Platform. You will play a pivotal role in working with multiple cross functional teams through the whole product lifecycle, leading on the continual development of the interpretation knowledge base (Clinical Variant Ark) and the potential to expand it to cover cancer as well as rare disease.You will be working in partnership with the NHS and Clinical scientists to distil user needs, in order to support the rapid and safe interpretation of whole genome data. This is a role for those with excellent stakeholder management skills and whom enjoy working on both a data and user facing product, thriving at taking a user centred view to complex problems in a complex ecosystem. You will need to enjoy collaborating with others, as the success of your product has some dependencies on those you are connected to upstream, as only together can we deliver the end-to-end service.Everyday responsibilities include:Understand the key market, competitive, technical, scientific, clinical implications to lead the product effectively. Rely on technical knowledge and skills to prioritise and manage the productEnsure your users are happy, supported, and getting value from your product. Ensure your product maintains compliance.Define product vision and strategy for the live Interpretation Platform. Set squad OKRs aligned to business priorities. Translate the vision, strategy and OKRs into a product roadmap and communicate it effectively.Manage successful outcomes through OKRs for users and the business by defining and prioritising the focus of the squad, balancing maintenance and new development using continuous discovery and delivery.Solve problems and make decisions quickly and effectively to make rapid progress, including many perspectives in problem solving and incorporating data into all decision making.Work in alignment with squad members, internal and external stakeholders, users, and 3rd parties. Communicate priorities, commitments, and manage stakeholders.Skills and experience for success:Experience taking a software product from discovery to running liveExperience of leading a team, including ability to mentor, coach and create a collaborative environmentExperience of agile development/delivery of digital servicesSuccessful at (and enjoy) collaborating with people from a variety of backgrounds including engineers.Able to influence a range of stakeholders at a variety of seniorities but also willing to listen and take on board other opinions and ideasHighly proactive and a practical problem solver who likes to figure stuff out rather than explaining why it can't be done.QualificationsNo specific qualifications required.Additional InformationSalary from £73,000Being 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 awardsA generous pension scheme of up to 15% combined contributionLife Assurance (3 x salary)Individual learning budgets for every colleague, a Blinkist account and a wide variety of courses on our portalA wide variety of wellness benefits including Gympass, a Headspace account, free weekly Yoga classesEnhanced maternity & paternity benefitsBlended working arrangementsTalk to our Talent Team and find out how a career with Genomics England will benefit you.#LI-HybridGenomics England is actively committed to providing and supporting an inclusive environment that promotes equity, diversity and inclusion best practice both within our community and in any other area where we have influence. We are proud of our diverse community where everyone can come to work and feel welcomed and treated with respect regardless of any disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, religion, sexual orientation, or social background.Genomics England’s policies of non-discrimination and equity and will be applied fairly to all people, regardless of age, disability, gender identity or reassignment, marital or civil partnership status, being pregnant or recently becoming a parent, race, religion or beliefs, sex or sexual orientation, length of service, whether full or part-time or employed under a permanent or a fixed-term contract or any other relevant factor.Genomics England does not tolerate any form of discrimination, harassment, victimisation or bullying at work. Such behaviour is contrary to , undermines our mission and core values and diminishes the dignity, respect and integrity of all parties.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. There is no expectation that staff will return to the office full time unless they want to, however, some of our roles 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.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
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