Genomics England
Senior Product Manager - 12 Month FTC (we have office locations in Cambridge, Leeds and London)
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Senior Product Manager - 12 Month FTC (we have office locations in Cambridge, Leeds and London)
Company Description
Genomics England is a global leader in enabling genomic medicine and research, focused on creating a world where everyone benefits from genomic healthcare. Building on the 100,000 Genomes Project, we support the NHS’s world-first national whole genome sequencing service and manage the growing National Genomic Research Library, alongside delivering numerous major genomics initiatives. By connecting research and clinical care at national scale, we enable immediate healthcare benefits and advances for the future.
Our mission is to provide the evidence and digital systems so that, by 2035, genomics could play a role in up to half of all healthcare interactions, whilst securing the UK’s position as the best place to discover, prove and benefit from genomic innovations.
Accelerating our impact involves working with patients, doctors, scientists, government, and industry to:
- Improve genomic testing.
- Help researchers access health data and technology.
- Facilitate new medical discoveries and effective, targeted medicines for everyone.
Genomics England delivers through designing, developing, and operating complex healthcare software systems.
We stand at the threshold of significant change—genomics becoming integral to routine healthcare, from birth to old age.
Job Title: Senior Product Manager (Platform Products)
Help shape the platform behind the UK’s national clinical and genomic infrastructure
At Genomics England, we’re building the digital foundations for genomic medicine at scale.
We seek an experienced Senior Product Manager to lead a portfolio of platform products that underpin the Healthcare Genomics Service—not end-user-facing products, but critical data stores, APIs, and shared capabilities depended on daily by engineering teams and healthcare systems.
The Opportunity
You’ll helm a portfolio of production platform products supporting genomic data processing and access in the Healthcare Genomics Service.
This is a highly technical platform product role ideal for Product Managers with experience in:
- Deploying shared platform, infrastructure, or developer tooling (not customer-focused products).
- Making tactical and strategic decisions to enhance reliability, scalability, and developer experience, balancing operational needs with long-term growth.
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You’ll work at the nexus of product, engineering, and architecture, shaping capabilities that empower faster organisational motion while upholding regulated healthcare standards.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead vision, strategy, and roadmap for shared platform products, ensuring measurable value across Genomics England and the NHS ecosystem.
- Collaborate with engineers to design scalable, API-first services and reusable platform capabilities.
- Balance platform evolution, operational stability, technical debt, and new deliveries against organisational priorities.
- Define long-term platform strategy with peers, driving phased migration away from legacy systems.
- Use data and impact metrics to monitor platform performance.
- Partner across teams to consolidate common capabilities, reduce duplication, improve developer experience.
- Navigate effectively in a regulated healthcare environment with robust governance and assurance.
- Build trust managing transparent prioritisation and trade-offs with technical & business stakeholders.
- Mentor product managers and enhance product excellence organisation-wide.
Required Skills & Experience
Formal qualifications are important, yet we emphasise proven experience. Ideally you possess:
- Experience owning shared platform, infrastructure or data products across multiple teams.
- Strong systems thinking & comprehension of complex technical landscapes.
- Ability to define product strategy, link it to outcomes, and translate to roadmaps.
- Confidence working with engineering teams on Long-Term Evolution of APIs/capabilities.
- Strikes balance between reliability, scalability, operational excellence & platform investments.
- Stakeholder management in highly technical settings with expertise in pitching trade-offs.
- Pragmatic decision-making and operational resilience under uncertainty.
A healthcare/genomics background is helpful but not mandatory. Focusing on leading technical platform products centres our priority.
Why Join Us?
As a Senior Product Manager with technical platform expertise, you’ll:
- Shape technical products/platforms underpinning the UK’s national genomic infrastructure.
- Contribute towards real-world healthcare impacts.
- Tackle functionally challenging platform engineering problems with industry’s finest engineers.
- Drive transformation in a mission-driven organisation, with organisation-wide—not siloed—impact.
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Note: This is a 12-month fixed-term contract tied to a strategic programme. While future funding isn’t guaranteed, substantial continuation work exists beyond the initial term.
Contact details for applications will be included in the final application form.
Salary: £86,100
Contract Type: Fixed-Term (12 Months)
Benefits & Inclusion
Leave & Working Flexibility:
- 30 days’ holiday + bank holidays.
- Ability to apply for up to 30 days working abroad annually (approval).
- Blended working arrangements.
- Enhanced maternity, paternity, & shared parental leave.
Pension & Finance Assistance:
- Genomics England doubles pension contributions (up to 10%), with optional increase.
- £3x annual salary life assurance coverage.
- Give As You Earn charitable giving scheme.
Learning & Reward Initiatives:
- Personal budget for learning & training.
- Stipend for annual professional subscriptions.
Health & Wellbeing:
- Subsidised gym access & free Headspace account.
- Workplace eye tests, flu jab programmes.
- Employee Assistance Programme.
Our Culture & Commitment to Inclusion
Genomics England champions happy, healthy, and inclusive workplaces.
Core values centre four key behaviours (details fresh at Genomics England Culture). Hybrid work is available, with offices at Canary Wharf (London), Cambridge, and Leeds.
Equity, Diversity, and Inclusivity:
Genomics England is actively anti-discriminatory, ensuring all roles—whether full/part-time or fixed/permanent—are treated fairly.
Our ethos aligns with zero tolerance for discrimination, harassment, or bullying. Policies uphold a culture where no one is left out.
Should you require adjustments to participate in recruitment, kindly speak to us about your needs.
Onboarding & Compliance
Successful candidates undergo DBS checks. Therefore, prior minor offences must be disclosed at application—some unspent convictions can interfere, given our healthcare work.
Office Location: London
Department: Product Management
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