As Viruses Surveillance Lead you will be responsible for: Developing a scientific strategy, architecture and surveillance plans for vector-borne viral infections Determining the arbovirus control programme’s needs and desires through requirements analysis and development of use cases Developing the product and research and development roadmaps and overseeing a series of global partner-led scientific research programmes required to meet the use cases Developing and recommending the strategy and scope of present and future product lines Building strategic relationships with funders, Africa CDC, WHO and other key global stakeholders Assessing similar/related surveillance products across the broader genetic surveillance and epidemiology community Working with partner support teams to assess, identify, prioritise and develop solutions for partner requirements Leading the GSU’s vector-borne viruses programme, work with operations teams to understand processing bottlenecks, and work with technical development teams to develop effective solutions Developing and maintaining product roadmaps for each surveillance product, consolidating and interpreting information from across all stakeholder groups set out above Maintaining product management and domain-specialist scientific and technical staff by recruiting, selecting, orienting, and training employees Full line management responsibility including setting objectives and managing staff performance About you To excel in this role you will need the following skills and experience: Technical Skills Deep understanding of vector-borne virus biology and epidemiology Product Management experience Experience with two of the following: lean start-up methodologies, agile development methodologies, working directly with clients Experience shipping successful products, including defining vision, strategy, outcome-driven product roadmaps and creating and managing backlogs Competencies and Behaviours Ability to innovate and create practical solutions to complex problems Skilled at defining products and prioritising product features Excellent leadership and line management experience Experience articulating and testing product hypotheses Possess persuasive negotiation and influencing skills and the ability to lead over a continuum of stakeholders at varying levels and in different contexts Ability to quickly understand scientific, technical and process challenges and break down complex problems into actionable steps Ability to work collaboratively with a range of internal and external stakeholders at all levels including navigating complex decision-making Willingness to travel (up to 30%) About us The Genomic Surveillance Unit is dedicated to global public health, bringing expertise in genomics, data science, product development, and sequencing operations to bear on surveillance solutions for important human diseases. Examples of our work include: Extensive involvement in COVID-19 and respiratory virus surveillance activities in the UK, providing the UK Health Security Agency with insight to detect and manage outbreaks; Fighting malaria — a disease which kills hundreds of thousands of children every year — by tracking drug and insecticide resistance; Working with research partners around the world to translate scientific discoveries into operational surveillance products; Delivering non-scientific projects and programmes such as organisational change and IT transformation.