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The Position
Technical Product Lead (ePlex) - Carlsbad, CA
A healthier future. It’s what drives us to innovate. To continuously advance science and ensure everyone has access to the healthcare they need today and for generations to come. Creating a world where we all have more time with the people we love.
The Opportunity:
As the Technical Product Lead for the ePlex platform, you will take full technical end-to-end ownership of assigned on-market products, driving overall performance, quality, and lifecycle strategies. Reporting directly to the Product Care Quality Team (PCQT), you will lead the cross-functional Product Team Meeting (PTM) to champion a unified OneRoche mindset across complex technical and operational landscapes.
Key Roles & Responsibilities:
- End-to-End Product Ownership & Specifications: Serve as the central owner for product specifications, performance, and quality KPIs, ensuring high accountability across the assigned on-market portfolio throughout its post-launch lifecycle.
- Cross-Functional Leadership & Alignment: Lead the Product Team Meeting (PTM) and drive alignment across Production, R&D, GCS, PMQ, Engineering, QA, Regulatory Affairs, and Business Area functions to define and track yearly Product Care objectives.
- Project & Portfolio Management: Oversee underlying project management activities—including scope, budget, timelines, resources, and quality deliverable tracking—for cross-functional PCQT and Operations projects in collaboration with project leads.
- Issue, Risk & CAPA Management: Lead holistic root cause analysis for quality and performance issues, direct the Issue Assessment Meeting (IAM) when requested, oversee CAPA/Configuration/Change Management, and maintain the ongoing Product Risk Management File (including process-FMEAs alongside Production leadership).
- Lifecycle & Supplier Strategy: Direct all lifecycle management activities, including phase-in/phase-out strategies for suppliers, budget planning/reconciliation, and representing the product portfolio during internal and external regulatory audits.
- Customer Focus & Strategic Prioritization: Support continuous improvement initiatives to enhance the Roche customer experience while maintaining clear, strategic prioritization aligned with organizational goals.
Who You Are:
- Bachelors Degree in focus areas such as Finance, Operations management, Project Management or related degree
Preferred Qualifications:
- Bachelors Degree in focus areas such as Sciences/Engineering, Operations management, Project Management or related degree
- Proven record of cross functional project leadership and excellent root cause analysis skills
- 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
- Ten or more (10+) years of experience in product care, production, development and/or related projects
- Agile / Scrum Master / PMP certification preferred
The expected salary range for this position based on the primary location of Carlsbad, CA is $127,400 - $236,600. 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
Relocation benefits are not available for this job posting.
Who we are
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. It is our policy and practice to employ, promote, and otherwise treat any and all employees and applicants on the basis of merit, qualifications, and competence. The company's policy prohibits unlawful discrimination, including but not limited to, discrimination on the basis of Protected Veteran status, individuals with disabilities status, and consistent with all federal, state, or local laws.
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