Product Manager – Bioinformatics
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Product Manager leading bioinformatics products and scientific workflows for Syngenta Crop Protection’s agricultural R&D platform. Coordinating scientists, Product Owners and engineering teams.
Responsibilities:
- Establish and maintain product vision, roadmap, value objectives and success measures for BIX products and capabilities
- Maintain and prioritise the product backlog, translating scientific needs into clear priorities and transparent trade-offs
- Manage product lifecycle, operational performance, total cost of ownership and post-launch value realisation
- Engage with scientists, bioinformaticians and R&D stakeholders on scientific workflows and user needs
- Partner with Product Owners to incorporate user-community needs and priorities
- Translate scientific opportunities into product capabilities and requirements for delivery teams
- Direct engineering teams throughout delivery and resolve scope and priority questions
- Coordinate dependencies across products, PODs and shared services within the R&D IT operating model
- Mandate and influence the use and evolution of standardised frameworks, platforms and reusable components
- Ensure BIX solutions are fit for purpose, scalable, supportable and aligned with architecture, data, security and quality standards
- Apply Agile product practices and maintain an outcome-focused backlog
- Manage product risks, cross-team dependencies and vendor relationships
- Communicate product direction, decisions and progress to scientific, technical and leadership audiences
Requirements:
- Degree or equivalent professional experience in Biology, Bioinformatics, Computational Biology or a closely related field
- Demonstrated expertise in biology and bioinformatics, with established credibility within scientific discourse
- Ability to engage effectively with software engineers and discuss APIs, data flows, testing, deployment and technical trade-offs
- Competency in mapping business processes and scientific workflows
- Ability to create precise data flow and system diagrams
- Proficiency with standard diagramming and collaboration tools
- Experience translating user and scientific needs into product direction, requirements and prioritised delivery schedules
- Excellent stakeholder communication, facilitation and influencing skills across scientific and technical communities
- Experience delivering Agile product initiatives and managing cross-functional teams within complex organisational structures
- Experience with scientific data platforms, workflow systems, cloud infrastructure or high-performance computing environments is advantageous
- Familiarity with version control, CI/CD pipelines, APIs, automated testing and containerisation is advantageous
- Hands-on programming experience, preferably in Python and/or R, with knowledge of bioinformatics workflows and pipelines is advantageous
- Professional experience as a Business Analyst or application of business analysis methodologies is advantageous
- Experience within agricultural, pharmaceutical, biotechnology or other Life Sciences R&D sectors is advantageous
Benefits:
- Generous pension scheme
- Bonus scheme
- Private medical insurance
- Life insurance
- Up to 31.5 days annual holiday
- Flexible working
- Learning culture and wide range of training options
- Opportunity to develop and apply science within the chemical industry
- Opportunity to work as part of a global team addressing agricultural-sector needs
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