Head of Product Management LIMS / LIS Clinical Diagnostics

Eurofins Scientific seeks an Executive Head of Product Management for LIMS/LIS Clinical Diagnostics to lead product strategy, governance, and multidisciplinary teams in Switzerland.

This executive position serves as the central authority for the product, responsible for defining its vision, objectives, and value proposition. The role leads a multidisciplinary team of Product Owners, Business Analysts, and Functional Analysts, acting as the single point of contact for all product-related matters while ensuring alignment with broader business and technical strategies.

Responsibilities

• Translate high-level business strategy into a clear and actionable product roadmap.
• Ensure the product aligns with enterprise architecture, security protocols, and compliance standards.
• Own key success metrics such as value delivery, user adoption, satisfaction, and cost efficiency.
• Collect, analyze, and prioritize business needs and user feedback to drive product decisions.
• Facilitate decision-making processes between business stakeholders, IT teams, and external partners.
• Communicate roadmap updates, priorities, and trade-offs transparently to all relevant parties.
• Provide direction, coaching, and support to ensure clear ownership and effective collaboration within the team.
• Establish robust product governance, decision-making processes, and ways of working.
• Ensure consistency in product management practices across the entire team.
• Own and maintain the product backlog, defining and prioritizing epics, features, and requirements based on value.
• Ensure requirements are clear, testable, and understood by delivery teams.
• Balance functional, non-functional, regulatory, and operational needs in product development.
• Identify and document the business value of IT requirements.
• Arbitrate with business sponsors regarding the need and value of IT requirements.
• Work closely with delivery teams to plan and deliver increments.
• Support sprint planning, reviews, and demos as needed.
• Ensure delivered solutions meet business expectations and quality standards.
• Validate outcomes with stakeholders and users.
• Manage the product across its full lifecycle from ideation to retirement.
• Collaborate with support and operations to ensure stable and efficient run.
• Identify improvement opportunities based on usage data, incidents, and feedback.
• Drive continuous optimization of value, cost, and user experience.
• Support forecasting and budget tracking for the product.
• Contribute to business cases and cost/benefit analyses.
• Coordinate with vendors and service providers where applicable.
• Provide regular status updates and product reporting to stakeholders.
• Prepare dashboards on value, adoption, delivery progress, and risks.
• Lead or participate in Product Review / Steering meetings.