Senior Lab Manager - Vaccines

Job Title: Senior Lab Manager - Vaccines

Location: Swiftwater, PA

About the Job

We are an innovative global healthcare company that helps the world stay ahead of infectious diseases by delivering more than 500 million vaccine doses a year. Across different countries, our talented teams are exploring new technologies to protect people and promote healthy communities. We chase the miracles of science every single day, pursuing progress to make a real impact on millions of patients around the world.​

The Senior Laboratory Manager for bacteriology assays will lead a team in the development, optimization, qualification, validation, and execution of bacteriological assays. Platforms include serum bactericidal assays (SBA’s) using both Human Complement (HC) and Baby Rabbit Complement (BR), supporting vaccine trials from Phase I to Phase IV. Responsibilities include ensuring data quality and compliance, providing scientific oversight, advancing method development, and evaluating technologies to enhance assay precision, throughput, and quality. The Senior Lab Manager will also contribute scientific insights, ensure thorough and standards-aligned documentation, and maintain adherence to quality and safety guidelines.

Main Responsibilities:

Laboratory Operations

• Plans and oversees the day-to-day operations and general activities (with leadership guidance) associated with one or more laboratories/projects.

• Ensures laboratory resources (materials/reagents/equipment/facilities) are maintained to meet assigned objectives.

• Supports a quality and compliant testing environment (laboratories, equipment, reagents, training and documentation, methods, personnel).

• Maintains alignment of processes and procedures and shares best practices within the team/platform.

Supervision and Management

• Oversees operational activities of staff working in the laboratory

• Provides guidance and expert advice to staff on technical issues, safety procedures and regulatory compliance matters within the laboratory. Monitors operations to ensure compliance.

• Provides development and performance feedback, counsel and guidance to the team

• Ensures that new employees are appropriately trained and familiar with laboratory operational requirements

• Ensures adequate staffing levels and support necessary for operation of the department, including facilitation of in-service and other educational programs

Scientific Operations and Management

• Performs/supports activities to ensure test method life cycle management (documentation, method suitability/trending, maintenance, etc.).

• Supports completion of analytical deliverables to meet project milestones.

• Assists in the evaluation of new technologies/ improvements to support analytical expertise as required.

• Reviews and evaluates data and formulates recommendations as needed.

• Works with internal and external partners in support of collaborative projects.

• Prepares and presents key documents as required.

Financial Operations

• Tracks/manages expenditures against assigned budgets.

• Advises management of significant budget deviations.

• Assures that all laboratory financial operations comply with corporate requirements.

• Reviews budget by integrating data from different projects, verifying that expenses have been correctly charged to different projects in compliance with requirements, making corrections as necessary

Regulatory/Quality Management

• Ensures adherence to all applicable quality, corporate, safety, and regulatory requirements.

• May serve as Subject matter Expert (SME) as required

• Supports departmental quality by ensuring adequate support for documentation, investigation, and closure of quality items including change controls, deviations, and CAPAs

About You​

• PhD or equivalent +4 years’ experience, Master's degree +6 years’ experience, Bachelor's +9 years’ experience required, preferably in pharmaceutical or biotech setting.  Degrees in scientific discip