Product Manager - Health

Company Description

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Job Description

We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Product Manager within Health Registries and Real-World Evidence to lead the development and enhancement of our healthcare registry platforms. You will play a key role in shaping digital products that support data collection, analysis, and reporting across the healthcare sector, helping to improve patient outcomes and support evidence-based clinical decision-making.

You will be responsible for managing a set of software products from ideation through to delivery. You will be extremely customer focused. If you have experience in managing software and technology products, particularly in a healthcare setting, then this role is for you.

What you will do - why you will love this role:

• Own the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for healthcare registry platforms, ensuring alignment with organisational goals and NHS / health sector priorities.

• Collaborate closely with clinicians, hospital administrators and managers, researchers, data scientists, and policy stakeholders to understand user needs and regulatory requirements.

• Lead agile product development cycles: define and prioritise product backlogs, write user stories, and ensure timely delivery of high-quality features.

• Oversee integration with healthcare systems (EHRs), ensuring interoperability and compliance with data standards (e.g., SNOMED CT, HL7 FHIR).

• Drive continuous improvement based on user feedback and analytics.

• Ensure compliance with healthcare data governance and privacy standards.

• Work closely with UX/UI designers to ensure intuitive and accessible user experiences for both clinicians and data entry personnel.

• Collaborate with commercial and strategy teams to support funding proposals, stakeholder engagement, and long-term sustainability of registry programmes.

• Research the competitive landscape across healthcare to develop propositions unique and competitive to the marketplace

• Strive to continually improve customer experience

• Assist with bid responses and other procurement activities

• Run user groups, liaise with relevant agencies, professional bodies and policy units

• Create detailed functionality documentation to support product training, sales collateral and marketing campaigns

What will enable you to succeed in this role

• A passion for improving services for the public

• Flexibility - you will wear many hats in this role so you must be able to adapt to changing priorities and a great variety of work

• Strong decision making - you will be able to make tough decisions in the best interests of the product, customer and company.

• Commercial awareness.  Able to conduct accurate return on investment (ROI) calculations. You understand the market. You can build business cases.  

• Strong prioritisation skills - you understand and can implement the principle of Minimum Viable Product (MVP)

• A sense of ownership.  We work as a team and we ensure that issues don’t fall into the gaps between disciplines.

• Excellent research skills.  Research competitors, markets, customers, requirements and use it to inform the very best product strategies that lead to market leadership and commercial growth. 

• Leadership skills - product managers need to positively influence the whole lifecycle.

• Communication skills.  

Qualifications

Essential:

• Proven experience as a Product Manager in a software or digital health environment.

• Strong understanding of the UK healthcare system, clinical workflows, and/or public health data registries.

• Familiarity with healthcare data standards and regulatory frameworks.

• Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the ability to communicate effectively with both technical and clinical audiences.

• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments with cross-functional teams.

• Demonstrable research skills – experience with the research of competitors, markets, customers, requirements and use it to inform the very best product strategies that lead to market leadership and commercial growth. 

• Advanced MS Office skills.

Desirable

• An enthusiasm for the use of technology in improving healthcare.

• Technical background or experience working with APIs, data integrations, or analytics platforms.

• Knowledge of NHS data architecture at either local or national level

• Background in life sciences, public health, or clinical research.

• Experience of working with healthcare professionals.

• Experience of working in the area of healthcare registries or real-world data.

• Experience of working in a regulated environment.

• Experience of working with Software as a Medical Device (SaMD).

Personal Skills:

• Self-reliant requiring minimal direction but with strong team player capabilities

• Excellent written & verbal communication skills

• Ability to deliver in a fast-moving environment with changing priorities

• Strong interpersonal/team skills

• Highly self-motivated with excellent time management and prioritisation skills, with a proven ability to work to deadlines

• Ability and desire to deliver an excellent level of customer service

• Effective relationship builder, developing strong working relationships with customers, relevant agencies and individuals within the business

• Undaunted when encountering problems or challenges and keen to determine a solution

• Organised

Additional Information

We pride ourselves in offering an excellent benefits package, including an above average pension scheme. When you join the team at NEC Software Solutions, you are provided with the following:

• Private Medical Cover funded by NEC for Employees (with the option to add family members at an additional cost) 

• 25 days paid holiday with the option to buy/sell (FTE)

• 4 x basic salary life assurance cover funded by NEC (with the option to increase cover at an additional cost)

• A Group Pension Plan with fantastic employer contributions up to a maximum of 8.5%

• A selection of flexible benefits to suit your individual needs

• All colleagues get free access to LinkedIn Learning. Over 15000 courses covering a huge breadth of subjects. Learn about what you like, when you like, how you like. 

OTHER INFORMATION

• Candidates must be able to demonstrate a pre-existing right to work and travel within the UK. Documentary evidence will be required.

• All offers are subject to satisfactory vetting, references and occupational health checks. 

• Depending on the nature of the role a Disclosure Barring Service (DBS) check may also be required.

NEC Software Solutions is an equal opportunities employer, welcoming applications from all communities. If you require any reasonable adjustments or have specific accessibility needs during the recruitment or interview process, please feel free to share these with us. We are committed to ensuring an inclusive and accommodating experience for all candidates.

Who We Are:

We’re NEC Software Solutions (part of global tech giant NEC Corporation). While you read this ad, our software is helping to dispatch ambulances, support families, keep trains on the move, locate missing people and even test the hearing of newborn babies.

Working with us, you’ll be helping our 3,000+ employees push the boundaries of what’s possible and support amazing public services.

We work with governments, hospitals, police forces, housing providers, local authorities and more. We help them pay financial support faster, speed up treatments for patients and respond to emergencies in the right way. The more we do, the more our customers can do for others. And together, we make a world of difference.

We’d love your help. And we’ll support you all the way.