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 within 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
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