Lab Manager

Job description

Details:

Job Purpose:

- Management of an in house lab team, performing clinical assay development and validation, assay maintenance and clinical testing in agreement to GMP/GCP requirements

Key Responsibilities:

- Responsible for the scientific and technical management of assays supporting one or several vaccine projects with limited number of technologies.
- Manages a team of 5-12 lab technicians, with focus on people management processes according to local rules (e.g. people development, engagement). Responsible for the transparent communication, escalation and cascading of messages between the CLS management and his/her team.
- Supervise a team of technicians in agreement with applicable quality management system tools to:
o Implement assay development and validation plans
o Perform assay maintenance (Critical reagents characterization and qualification)
o Implement assay trouble shooting plans
o Clinical testing in accordance to agreed timelines
o Oversee data checks and data release
- Identify assay, equipment or process deviations, define & manage CAPAs. Escalate any risks and issues identified.
- Apply good documentation practices (GDP) and manage human biological specimens and raw data in agreement to GSK rules. Write memos summarizing experiments and written standards relative to his/her domain of expertise.
- Provide short to mid-term views on the workload and alignment with resources for his/her team. Co-ordinates projects and resources according to defined priorities; under supervision. Challenges and approves planning of lab activities.
- Responsible for the training and the qualification of his/her lab team technicians.
- Share know-how in his/her field of competency and support others in their development. Present data in meetings within CLS or in front of an external audience.

Our Offer:

At GSK we provide a supportive working environment, and a range of development challenges and opportunities. We also offer competitive benefits and compensation packages designed to attract and to retain the very best. GSK is proud to promote an open culture, encouraging people to be themselves and giving their ideas a chance to flourish. GSK is an equal opportunity employer.

The department:

Patient-focused Research and Development (R&D) is the heart of our business. Our R&D department seeks to discover and develop new vaccines, to protect against diseases where vaccines are not yet available and to improve on those vaccines that already exist. Part of our R&D programme targets diseases particularly prevalent in the developing world, including the World Health Organisation's three priority diseases - HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. Research into candidate vaccines for other diseases of the developing world, such as dengue are at an earlier stage of development.
When it comes to developing the vaccines of the future, we're looking for real experts in their respective fields who are interested in working in the stimulating environment of an international healthcare company.
We emphasise the value of teamwork and we look for people ready to share our values of transparency, respect, integrity and patient focus.

Our Company:

GSK is a science-led global healthcare company with a mission to help people do more, feel better, live longer. At GSK, we research, manufacture and make available a broad range of medicines, vaccines and consumer healthcare products.

GSK Vaccines is a world's leading company, involved in vaccine research, development and production. We have 16 candidate vaccines in development and our broad portfolio of around 40 vaccines prevent illnesses such as hepatitis A, hepatitis B, diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough, measles, mumps, rubella, polio, typhoid, influenza and bacterial meningitis. Globally, we have more than 16.000 people working to deliver vaccines safely, every day, to people in 90% of the world's countries. In 2014 we distributed around 800 million doses of vaccine, 80% of them to least developed, low and middle income countries.
For further information, please visit www.gsk.com.

Contact information:

You may apply for this position online by selecting the Apply now button.

Important notice to Employment businesses/ Agencies

GSK does not accept referrals from employment businesses and/or employment agencies in respect of the vacancies posted on this site. All employment businesses/agencies are required to contact GSK's commercial and general procurement/human resources department to obtain prior written authorization before referring any candidates to GSK. The obtaining of prior written authorization is a condition precedent to any agreement (verbal or written) between the employment business/ agency and GSK. In the absence of such written authorization being obtained any actions undertaken by the employment business/agency shall be deemed to have been performed without the consent or contractual agreement of GSK. GSK shall therefore not be liable for any fees arising from such actions or any fees arising from any referrals by employment businesses/agencies in respect of the vacancies posted on this site.

Desired profile

Basic qualifications:

- Master (or Bachelor) degree in science plus 3-5 years of work experience as a manager of a lab team
- Technical expertise in clinical testing, assay development, validation and life cycle management of clinical assays applied to the quantitative measurement of humoral immunological response induced either by vaccination or infection.

Preferred qualifications:

- Good knowledge of quality system practices.