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Location: Manchester Salary: Hidden Recruiter: Yourgene Health Date Advertised: 2024-09-04 |
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Job title: Product Development Team Leader (NGS/Next Generation Sequencing) 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 Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) products and services. The Product Development Team Leader is responsible for leading teams involved in assay design and development and validation including system integration, of in vitro diagnostic products on next generation sequencing technologies. The post holder will design and develop both research use only (RUO) and CEIVD regulated products, taking the ideas from ideation through to product launch.
Overall responsibility: An expert in Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) Technologies who can provide scientific expertise, people leadership and technical leadership during the product development cycle. Ensures team people and skill development along with resource planning is effective and aligned with priorities set out by R&D management. Works with project managers to ensure that the teams work is well planned and executed to a high quality in a timely fashion. Drives the shaping of Product Development strategy, particularly for the development of new molecular diagnostic products on NGS platforms and in the assessment of new sequencing technologies. Works with the Regulatory Affairs in the preparation of regulatory submissions to key territories (e.g. IVDR) for new products. Works with external solutions providers as well as internal bioinformatics and software development teams to ensure the best analysis solutions and reporting pipelines are available for our customers using the products.
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Closing Date: Sunday 29th September, 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. Read More |