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Technical Product Lead - Carlsbad, CA

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The Opportunity:

As the Technical Product Lead, you will be accountable for the cobas eplex System, taking technical end-to-end ownership and ensuring performance and quality through established KPIs. Responsibilities include defining product specifications and leading the cross-functional System Product Team Meeting (PTM) while reporting to the PCQT. The position involves defining and tracking yearly cross-functional Product Care objectives, ensuring alignment with relevant functions and stakeholders. The individual will drive cross-functional collaboration among Production, R&D, GCS, CIR, Engineering, QA, Regulatory Affairs, and Business Area functions. Additionally, the role includes leading cross-functional PCQT and Operations projects, providing technical oversight in collaboration with the project lead.

Key Responsibilities:

Defines and tracks yearly cross-functional Product Care objectives, ensuring alignment with relevant functions and stakeholders.

Drives collaboration among Production, R&D, GCS, CIR, Engineering, QA, Regulatory Affairs, and Business Area functions.

Leads cross-functional PCQT and Operations projects, providing technical oversight in collaboration with project leads.

Manages project activities including planning, monitoring, reporting, and alignment with involved functions.

Conducts holistic root cause analysis for quality and performance issues while supporting budget planning and reconciliation.

Serves as the central point of contact for lifecycle management activities and ensures continuous Product Risk Management updates.

Drives product performance and quality, leads the Product Quality Committee (PQC), and represents the product in audits, while supporting continuous improvement of the Roche customer experience.

Who You Are:

Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry, Engineering, Computer Science or a related technical discipline or applicable work experience

5 years of progressive work experience in an appropriate scientific discipline, including demonstrated leadership as applied to the management of complex technical projects

5 years experience in project management

Preferred Qualifications:

Masters is preferred

Ten or more (10+) years of experience in product care, production, development and/or related projects

Proven record of cross functional project leadership and excellent root cause analysis skills

Agile / Scrum Master / PMP certification

Good understanding of the GenMark production process and the ePlex Assays

Team-oriented personality with very good networked thinking and excellent collaboration skills

Independent working style as well as very good communication and presentation skills

High assertiveness, flexible, resilient and open personality

Candidate with existing Roche and/or GenMark network preferred

Relocation benefits are not available for this job posting.

The expected salary range for this position based on the primary location of Carlsbad, CA is $127,100 - $236,000.  Actual pay will be determined based on experience, qualifications, geographic location, and other job-related factors permitted by law.  A discretionary annual bonus may be available based on individual and Company performance.  This position also qualifies for the benefits detailed at the link provided below.

Benefits

GenMark is now a proud member of the Roche Group, more than 100,000 people across 100 countries are pushing back the frontiers of healthcare.  As a global leader in healthcare, Roche Diagnostics offers a broad portfolio of products, tools and services that help in the prevention, diagnosis and management of diseases like HPV, HIV, hepatitis and diabetes as well as other medical conditions, such as fertility and blood coagulation. With the addition of GenMark to the Roche Group, syndromic infectious disease diagnostics is now added to the long list of disease states and conditions that the Roche Group addresses.  GenMark’s ePlex true sample-to-answer system offers unique solutions to address the most significant challenges facing clinical laboratories, while supporting hospital systems to deliver patient-centered, value-based care. ePlex streamlines the diagnostic workflow from physician order entry to the final test report and is the true sample-to-answer solution designed to improve patient care, reduce costs, and increase lab efficiency. GenMark is headquartered in Carlsbad, California.

GenMark is an equal opportunity employer and strictly prohibits unlawful discrimination based upon an individual’s race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin/ancestry, age, mental/physical disability, medical condition, marital status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.