Product Definition Lead

Role: Product Definition Lead

Location: Motherwell, Scotland, onsite

Hours: 37.5 hours per week

Pay: 23.08 - 25.64 per hour, depending on experience

Contract: 12-month contract

An excellent opportunity has arisen for a Product Definition Lead to join a dynamic and collaborative product development team on a one-year contract. You will work across instrument, assay and disposable development, helping to define the technical direction of complex point-of-care platforms.

This role is well suited to an experienced technical leader with a strong background in systems engineering, requirements engineering or product definition. You will translate complex business and clinical needs into clear system requirements while guiding a specialist, multidisciplinary team.

Benefits

• 12-month full-time contract
• Opportunity to lead technically complex point-of-care development projects
• Work within a highly skilled scientific and engineering environment
• Exposure to interdisciplinary and global project teams
• Opportunity to shape product definition and technical strategy
• Collaborative and technically focused workplace

The Requirements

• Master's degree or PhD in Engineering, Life Sciences or a related discipline
• At least five years' experience in requirements engineering, systems engineering or product definition
• Experience with in medical devices, diagnostics or another highly regulated industry is strongly preferred
• Proven leadership and team development experience
• Strong understanding of requirements elicitation, analysis and system definition
• Ability to translate business, clinical and technical needs into precise requirements
• Strong strategic thinking and problem-solving skills
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities
• Comfortable working across global and interdisciplinary teams
• Proactive, flexible and able to make decisions in a fast-paced environment
• Strong technical judgement and the ability to resolve complex issues quickly

The Role

• Lead and oversee the product definition of technically complex point-of-care systems
• Manage, coach and develop Systems Engineers, Requirements Engineers, Domain Business Analysts and supporting team members
• Build a collaborative and high-performing technical team
• Translate business and clinical healthcare needs into clear system requirements
• Lead requirements engineering, requirements elicitation and requirements evaluation activities
• Ensure system requirements are complete, accurate and aligned with wider business objectives
• Guide the technical direction of instrument, assay and disposable development programmes
• Support engineering teams with the identification, resolution and closure of technical issues
• Organise and facilitate project workshops with global and interdisciplinary stakeholders
• Apply structured problem-solving methods to critical technical challenges
• Align product definition activities with wider programme milestones and strategic goals
• Contribute to the successful delivery of complex medical technology development projects

If you're keen to join an exceptional team offering technical leadership, strategic responsibility and the opportunity to influence the development of complex healthcare technologies, then please apply to this Product Definition Lead role below or call Chloe McCausland on (phone number removed) between 8:30am and 5:00pm.