Product Manager Bioinformatics

Syngenta Group

11h

About The Position

Syngenta Crop Protection is hiring a Product Manager Bioinformatics to own scientific digital products and capabilities within its bioinformatics platform. The role establishes product vision, roadmaps, value objectives and success measures aligned with the BIX strategy, while ensuring products deliver measurable scientific and business value for R&D. It manages the product lifecycle, backlog, operational performance, total cost of ownership and value realization after launch. The Product Manager works closely with scientists, bioinformaticians, Product Owners, software engineers and R&D stakeholders. The role translates scientific opportunities and user needs into clear product capabilities, requirements and delivery priorities, and guides engineering teams to deliver solutions that meet scientific needs. It coordinates dependencies across products, PODs and shared services, promotes the use and evolution of standard frameworks and reusable components, and ensures solutions meet architecture, data, security, quality, scalability and supportability standards. The position also manages product risks, cross-team dependencies and vendor relationships, and communicates product direction, decisions and progress to scientific, technical and leadership audiences. The place of work is Jealott's Hill International Research Centre in the UK, a major global R&D site employing approximately 800 scientists and support staff. Syngenta describes the work environment as stimulating and international, with flexible working and opportunities to develop and apply scientific expertise.

Requirements

A degree or equivalent professional experience in Biology, Bioinformatics, Computational Biology or a closely related field.
Demonstrated expertise in biology and bioinformatics, with established credibility in 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, creating precise data-flow and system diagrams, and using these artefacts to align stakeholders.
Proficiency with standard diagramming and collaboration tools.
Substantive experience translating user and scientific needs into product direction, requirements and prioritized delivery schedules.
Strong 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.

Nice To Haves

Experience with scientific data platforms, workflow systems, cloud infrastructure or high-performance computing environments.
Familiarity with engineering practices including version control, CI/CD pipelines, APIs, automated testing and containerisation.
Hands-on programming experience, preferably in Python and/or R, and demonstrated knowledge of bioinformatics workflows and pipelines.
Professional experience as a Business Analyst or experience applying business analysis methodologies such as process modelling, requirements elicitation and data mapping.
Experience in agricultural, pharmaceutical, biotechnology or other Life Sciences R&D sectors.

Responsibilities

Establish and maintain the vision, roadmap, value objectives and success measures for BIX products and capabilities, aligned with the overall BIX strategy.
Maintain the product backlog, translate scientific needs into priorities, and communicate trade-offs based on value, evidence, scope, cost, risk and technical sustainability.
Manage product lifecycle, operational performance, total cost of ownership and post-launch value realization, including adoption, user impact and improvements to scientific workflows.
Engage with scientists, bioinformaticians and R&D stakeholders, and partner with Product Owners representing user communities.
Translate scientific opportunities and user needs into product capabilities, requirements and prioritized delivery schedules.
Direct engineering teams during delivery, provide product direction, resolve scope and priority questions, and ensure delivered capabilities meet scientific needs.
Coordinate dependencies across products, PODs and shared services within the R&D IT target operating model.
Mandate the use of standard frameworks, platforms and reusable components provided by R&D IT Product Engineering, and work with BIX Staff Engineers to influence their evolution.
Ensure BIX solutions are fit for purpose, scalable, supportable and aligned with architecture, data, security and quality standards.
Apply Agile product practices and maintain a healthy, outcome-focused backlog.
Manage product risks, cross-team dependencies and vendor relationships.
Communicate product direction, decisions and progress to scientific, technical and leadership audiences.