Job title: Product Manager
Reports to: Head of Product Management
Location: Hybrid / Remote / Manchester
Contract Type: Full-time, Permanent
Salary & Benefits: Competitive Salary + Benefits Package
About Yourgene Health:
Yourgene Health offers a comprehensive suite of non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) solutions, including a complete NGS workflow designed to provide laboratories with flexible, scalable testing and a broad clinical menu, tailored to their needs. In addition, Yourgene also offer a NIPT sample service for healthcare professionals.
Supporting the wider reproductive lifecycle, Yourgene offer a portfolio of PCR-based clinical screening assays, including tests for cystic fibrosis, aneuploidy analysis, pregnancy loss, male factor infertility, and thrombosis risk.
As part of the expanding Precision Medicine portfolio, the Yourgene® DPYD genotyping PCR assay supports safer chemotherapy regimes, by identifying patients at risk of severe fluoropyrimidine toxicity.
Powered by Ranger® Technology, Yourgene’s portfolio of automated DNA size selection instruments delivers high-precision fragment selection and dynamic target enrichment across a wide range of clinical and research sequencing applications. Designed to support laboratories from low- to high-throughput workflows, Ranger® instruments provide an innovative solution for applications including NIPT, gene synthesis, CRISPR gene editing, and long-read sequencing.
Yourgene Health is part of the Novacyt Group of companies and is headquartered in Manchester, UK with facilities in Singapore 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 many social and wellbeing initiatives run by our Nova Social and Charity Huddle that keep our sense of community and togetherness alive. 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:
We are looking to recruit a full-time and permanent Product Manager, a key strategic role with responsibility for a defined portfolio of Yourgene Health products.
The Product Manager plays a strategic role within the organisation, ensuring that our products deliver meaningful value to customers while supporting sustainable business growth. This role is responsible for understanding customer needs, market dynamics, and emerging opportunities, translating these insights into product strategies that drive innovation and competitive advantage.
Working cross-functionally with commercial, scientific, and operational teams, the Product Manager ensures we are building the right products for the right customers and solving the most important problems in the market. They are responsible for guiding product development from concept through launch and lifecycle management, ensuring that products are delivered to the highest standards and aligned with business objectives.
By combining strong market insight with customer understanding, the Product Manager helps identify new opportunities to create value, improve existing offerings, and shape the future direction of the product portfolio. Ultimately, this role ensures that our organisation continues to develop products that meet customer needs, deliver measurable impact, and drive long-term growth.
Key areas of responsibility:
* Owning and defining the product vision and strategy.
* Creating the strategic product roadmap, developing business cases and ensuring alignment within the company.
* Leading on the voice of the customer and capturing feedback to provide valuable insights.
* Developing curated, specific and clear user needs that have captured the voice of the customer.
* Collaborating with product development to translate into product features or updates or new releases.
* Contributing to the companies NPI strategy and execution.
* Developing and executing successful Go To Market (GTM) plans.
* Developing market led pricing models with cross functional input.
* Value proposition and positioning.
* KOL engagement programme.
* Customer collaborations to validate and beta test new updates / features.
* Develop sales enablement tools.
Qualifications, Skills and Abilities:
Behaviours:
* Strategic thinker.
* Self- starter with excellent collaboration and communication skills.
* Technically curious and literate – ability to understanding a range molecular diagnostics workflows and technologies including NGS and PCR.
* Empathy - ability to empathise and develop a deep understanding of what success looks like for the customer.
* Customer focused – able to put themselves into the shoes of the customer and build rapport.
* Curiosity – the desire to explore problems with the customer and understand the multi-faceted way these can be resolved.
* Exceptional attention to detail
* Expectation of up to 20% travel – across UK, customers and events globally as required
Qualifications:
* Life science degree
* Product Management experience within a technical field
* Business experience in molecular diagnostics
Closing Date:
Tuesday 31st March, 2026
Equal opportunities:
Yourgene Health and the Novacyt Group of companies provides equal employment opportunities for all current employees and applicants for employment. This policy means that no one will be discriminated against because of race, religion, creed, color, national origin, nationality, citizenship, ancestry, sex, age, marital status, physical or mental disability, affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity, military or veteran status, genetic predisposing characteristics or any other basis prohibited by law.
Notice to Agency and Search Firm Representatives:
Yourgene Health and the Novacyt Group of companies is not accepting unsolicited resumes from agencies and/or search firms for this job posting. Resumes submitted to any Yourgene Health and Novacyt Group employee by a third party agency and/or search firm without a valid written and signed search agreement, will become the sole property of Yourgene Health and the Novacyt Group of companies. No fee will be paid if a candidate is hired for this position as a result of an unsolicited agency or search firm referral. Thank you.