Associate Director, Downstream Process Development

Overview

The work we do at FDB has never been more important—and we are looking for talented candidates to join us. We are growing our locations, our capabilities, and our teams, and looking for passionate, mission-driven people like you who want to make a real difference in people’s lives. Join FDB and help create the next vaccine, cure, or gene therapy in partnership with some of the most innovative biopharma companies across the globe. We are proud to cultivate a culture that will fuel your passion, energy, and drive - what FDB call Genki. 

 

College Station, Texas may be a small, university town, but the lively cultural scene and local amenities make it a great place for families as well as those who want the ease of small-town life and the convenience of living close to the vibrant pulse of big cities. Eighty-seven percent of Texas' population lives within a 180-mile radius, so we are in the center of it all in Texas. And our site is nestled in the hub of innovation, representing a source of pride for the area.

Summary:  The Associate Director is responsible for directing a group including upper level scientists to achieve project milestones and to provide senior technical and scientific leadership to the department. The individual assumes a managerial leadership role by setting standards, timeframes, and priorities, interacting with other departments and handling some administrative, sales and marketing and managerial resources duties for the group.

The individual provides leadership for multiple projects and/or programs within the group to contribute to revenue generation.

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Essential Functions:

• Create and nurture an environment that encourages collaboration around idea generation, experimental techniques, and sharing of knowledge and resources
• Oversees the scientific quality of work within the department and ensures departmental procedures are followed and are up to date
• Identifies, develops and implements innovative and complex projects with significant potential value to the Company
• Works with group leaders to plan client projects in terms of timing and resources
• Integrates efforts across teams; resolves conflicts and removes obstacles that stand in the way of accomplishing project goals and objectives.
• Recommends new areas for novel development and innovation
• Resolves technical problems in area of expertise
• Leads interdisciplinary teams on complex projects; contributes significantly to the leadership and coordination of multiple development teams
• Technical development and mentoring of staff
• Interacts with development management in the planning and coordination of major projects
• Drives the adoption of best practices across the department.
• Adhere to all relevant compliance requirements.
• All other duties as needed.

 

Knowledge/Technical Expertise

Individual will have extensive knowledge and expertise relevant to downstream processing of protein, virus, and plasmid DNA based products expressed in mammalian, bacterial, insect and yeast cells. Knowledge and expertise should be both practical and theoretical

 

Proficiencies:

• Expertise in all areas of downstream process development both practical and theoretical.
• Lead teams working on complex projects
• Prioritization of resources to ensure project milestones are achieved
• Have leveraged specialized expertise to generate revenue and extend knowledge
• Ability to develop sophisticated and elegant development and innovation programs of potential value to the company
• Heavily involved in setting the scientific direction of the company's development and innovation efforts
• Acts as an advisor and consultant to management on research, development or innovation having a significant impact on the future of the company
• Knowledge of the regulatory requirements and quality standards related to downstream development.

 

Required Skills & Abilities:

The Associate Director will possess the following skills and abilities:

• Demonstrated in-depth contributions in area of scientific specialty and developed expertise in other specialty areas
• Provides leadership in their areas of expertise within process development group.
• Able to work on broad and highly complex problems, which may span geographic boundaries
• Able extend knowledge across a global organization in a given field
• Participates in the shaping of FFDB research, development and innovation agenda
• Recognizes and leverages innovative opportunities within a project
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