Group Leader - Lab Staff Manager

Work Schedule

First Shift (Days)

Environmental Conditions

Adherence to all Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) Safety Standards

Job Description

Group Leader - Lab Staff Manager – Remote

Shift: Full-Time; Monday – Friday; 8am-5pm EST

REMOTE:

This is a fully remote role supporting our customer’s site in (New Brunswick, NJ).

***Fully Remote position but will need to live in Greater New Brunswick. NJ area for onsite visits*** - Please note that relocation assistance is not provided for this position, and any relocation costs will be the responsibility of the candidate.  

Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship. 

Must be able to pass a comprehensive background check, which includes a drug screening. 

At Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life - enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while taking science a step beyond through research, development and delivery of life-changing therapies. With clinical trials conducted in 100+ countries and ongoing development of novel frameworks for clinical research through our PPD clinical research portfolio, our work spans laboratory, digital and decentralized clinical trial services. Your determination to deliver quality and accuracy will improve health outcomes that people and communities depend on – now and in the future.

Thermo Fisher's clinical research business is a leading global contract research organization and world leader in serving science. We are passionate, deliberate, and driven by our mission – to enable our customers to make the world healthier, safer, and cleaner.

Within our Analytical Services team, we have a functional service provider solution, which is a unique partnership that allows our customers to leverage the experience of our staff, while allowing you, the employee, to gain direct experience working onsite at a pharmaceutical/ biopharmaceutical company, all while maintaining full-time benefits.

Key responsibilities:

• As a Group Leader, you will provide management and direction to remote laboratory staff at client sites and provide administrative resources for employee activities and needs. You will spend a significant amount of time assisting in the recruitment, interviewing, and onboarding of new staff to select the best possible candidates and achieve a fast, seamless transition to efficiency.
• The Group Leader will be responsible for ensuring staff responsiveness and overall client satisfaction. You will meet regularly with client contacts to monitor the technical performance of staff and their project timeliness, as well as build close customer relationships. Considerable flexibility will be required to meet client expectations and management needs with employees working in different U.S time zones. You will track Key Performance Indicators and metrics.

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in lab sciences such as Chemistry, Biochemistry, Material Science, Immunology, Biology, Molecular Biology or similar
• Group Leader: Previous experience that provides the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the job (comparable 8+years’)
• OR Masters degree and previous experience that provides the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the job (comparable 6+ years’)
• OR PhD and previous experience that provides the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the job (comparable 3+ years’)

In some cases, an equivalency, consisting of a combination of appropriate education, training and/or directly related experience, will be considered sufficient for an individual to meet the requirements of the role.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• ***Fully Remote position but will need to live in Greater New Brunswick, NJ area for onsite visits***
• Biological Lab background/experience needed.
• Commercial and late stage drug development exp desired
• Ability to establish, develop and maintain positive business and customer relationships
• Demonstrated understanding of the bid process and can apply expertise of others to develop programs to meet unique client needs
• Be highly motivated and target driven with effective negotiating skills
• Understanding of proposal and project scope as it relates to pricing, resource management and the impact on business
• Ability to independently develop project proposals and plans
• Demonstrated knowledge of QA metrics of program bas