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Salary: USD 181,400 - 225,000 / annual
Precision for Medicine seeks a Senior Director of Scientific Affairs to lead the Scientific Affairs team within Specialty Lab Services (SLS). This is a core leadership role responsible for driving operational strategy, managing global third-party laboratory relationships, and supporting business development initiatives.
Key responsibilities include:
**Operational Leadership & Team Management:**
- Hire, train, develop, and mentor direct reports on the Scientific Affairs team
- Own and report staff and department metrics including capacity, productivity, and turnaround time
- Collaborate with scientific, operational, business development, and functional leadership across the organization
**Protocol & Proposal Development:**
- Create and refine specifications for opportunities, focusing on operational considerations such as enrollment, feasibility, study timelines, and startup timelines
- Develop proposal text describing operational assay development, validation, and sample analysis
- Conduct comprehensive proposal reviews prior to sponsor delivery
- Support development and finalization of study proposal budgets for internal laboratories and third-party partners
- Ensure proposals reflect robust strategic, operational, scientific, and clinical development planning
**Global Laboratory Relationship Management:**
- Own all global third-party laboratory (3PL) relationships, including post-award governance meetings
- Collect and provide metrics, reconcile invoices and billing
- Collaborate with lab operations and global vendor management specialists on protocol interpretation and assay specifications
- Create specification sheets from protocols to obtain quotes for business development and proposal teams
**Client & Stakeholder Engagement:**
- Represent Precision at pre-award client meetings, bid defense meetings, and internal/external kick-off meetings
- Support capabilities presentations and provide feasibility and scientific landscape direction
- Collaborate with lab operations to provide innovative solutions aligned with scientific strategy
- Represent the company at industry meetings, speaking engagements, and booth exhibitions
- Publish scientific or industry-related articles in industry journals and digital media
**Strategic Initiatives:**
- Lead specific projects enabling Precision to maintain competitive edge and stay at the forefront of innovation
- Work closely with business development and project management on operational strategy transitions
- Mentor and train scientific affairs colleagues in strategy and specification assessment for clinical research studies
**Requirements:**
- Bachelor's degree in life sciences discipline (PhD preferred) or equivalent relevant experience
- 15+ years in the CRO/lab industry or equivalent relevant experience and demonstrated competencies
- Demonstrated experience leading and influencing a global laboratory network, including oversight of multi-site laboratory operations, establishment of standardized processes and quality systems, and alignment of regional laboratories to enterprise-wide strategic, operational, and compliance objectives
- Relevant experience in operational protocol analysis and budget review
- Strong experience in target therapeutic area clinical development focused on operational delivery considerations, strategy, feasibility, budget development, and operational execution of all phases of clinical trials
- Management or oversight of third-party lab partners
