Product Development Team Lead (Non-Invasive Prenatal Testing/NIPT)

Job title: Product Development Team Leader (Non-Invasive Prenatal Testing/NIPT)

Reports to: Head of Product Development

Location: Manchester (site based role)

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.

Yourgene primarily develops, manufactures, and commercialises simple and accurate molecular diagnostic solutions, for reproductive health, precision medicine and infectious diseases. The Group's flagship in vitro diagnostic products include non -invasive prenatal tests (NIPT) for Down's Syndrome and other genetic disorders, Cystic Fibrosis screening tests, invasive rapid aneuploidy tests and DPYD genotyping.

Yourgene has a range of innovative DNA sample preparation platforms, powered by Ranger® Technology, the Yourgene LightBench® and Yourgene QS250, ideal for cell free DNA applications in NIPT and oncology including liquid biopsy.

Yourgene also has a global laboratory service network equipped to be a full life-cycle partner for clinical, research and pharmaceutical organisations to support partners at the preclinical, clinical, and post market stage to develop, manufacture, obtain regulatory approval and commercialise new products and services. In addition, Yourgene offers and NIPT and high throughput Covid testing service.

Yourgene Health is headquartered in Manchester, UK with facilities in Taipei, Singapore, the US 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 employee's as collegiate, friendly, professional, innovative, open and fast paced. We have nay social and well-being 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 programmes in place to ensure that we can attract, retain and develop our people. We want our people to have a career with Yourgene and we ensure that they are recognised and rewarded for their achievements and commitment, everyone plays a critical role in our growth journey.

Description of role:

Yourgene Health, part of Novacyt Group are recruiting for a Product Development Team Leader focused on our Non-Invasive Prenatal Testing (NIPT) products and services. The Product Development Team Leader is responsible for leading teams involved in the design, development and system integration of in vitro diagnostic products and services related to non invasive prenatal testing (NIPT).

Overall responsibility:

The Product Development Team Leader will be an expert in the functional area who can provide scientific expertise, people leadership and technical leadership. Ensures team people and skill development along with resource planning is effective and aligned with priorities set out by R&D management. Drives the team forward and ensures work is well planned and executed to a high quality in a timely fashion. Contributes to the shaping of Product Development strategy.

Key areas of responsibility:

• Team leadership and people management, as well as identifying strategic and tactical improvements to function
• Effective short- and long-term resource planning, aligned against priorities and team member’s skills
• Project planning and reporting in collaboration with Project Managers;
• Ensures project planning for work-packages within own area is performed effectively
• Contribute to overall project planning while factoring in system level thinking
• Lead and participate in activities requiring cross functional collaboration, including leading complex projects
• NIPT: Delivery of NIPT tests and systems for products and services
• Provides scientific expertise and technical leadership on projects
• Work collaboratively with other Team Leaders to ensure overall process SOPs, process flows, standardized plans & reports enable fully integrated and seamless development
• Ensure planning and reporting of studies, work-packages and other activities is accurate and detailed
• Efficient and effective documentation
• Data generation, integrity and organized data management
• Provide accurate and concise data interpretation, factoring in systems-level thinking
• Meeting regulatory or other requirements
• Oversee troubleshooting through to resolution
• Owns external relationships, including through for example, grant applications, KOLs and partners
• Supports the identification of commercially and technically useful solutions for development
• Ensure own work and that of junior staff is performed in line with company goals
• Support and provide guidance to junior staff

Qualifications, Skills and Abilities:

• Degree or further degree (or equivalent) in a life science such as molecular biology, biochemistry or genetics
• Typically 10+ years of relevant experience in product development in NGS and/or molecular biology based products
• Previous supervisory or line management experience
• Able to manage a team of scientist and technicians, motivate as well as providing leadership and guidance
• Expertise and experience in the development, verification and validation of molecular diagnostic assays in adherence with CE marking and/or design control regulations
• Hands on experience a range of with molecular based assays and techniques
• Excellent grasp of experimental design and execution and able to lead and train others
• Understanding and consideration that changes to one component may impact the entire system (“system level thinking”)
• Enthusiasm, drive, thoroughness, diligence and a willingness to take personal responsibility to ensure that projects are successful
• Good organisational skills and thrives on working to tight timelines
• Able to assimilate knowledge from technically detailed scientific sources
• Can summarize complex scientific data in written form to effectively communicate plans, progress and ideas with Management, Peers or External Audiences
• Good IT skills, including Microsoft Office suite

Closing Date:

Sunday 20th October, 2024

Yourgene Health is committed to encouraging equality, diversity and inclusion among our workforce. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative of all sections of society and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best.