Associate Director Laboratory Sciences

About the role

An Associate Director within the Molecular Biology discipline is responsible for providing general oversight and management of staff that execute in vitro, molecular and/or cell-based assays supporting Discovery through Clinical work. This individual is expected to provide leadership and guidance for staff development; verify staff compliance with regulatory and other requirements; develop efficient and scientifically valid processes and procedures; provide budget oversight, and contribute to quality metrics, performance metrics, and project risk assessments. They will demonstrate effective communication with both on-site and off-site peers as well as with Sponsors. They may function as a Principal Investigator, Individual Scientist and/or Project Scientist if required. They may manage cross discipline interdependencies in collaboration with leadership as well as provide mentorship.

Responsibilities

• Efficiently perform supervisory responsibilities in accordance with organizational policies and applicable laws to include interviewing, hiring, training and developing employees
• Effectively demonstrates the behaviors and performance characteristics as described in the CRL DNA
• Develop organizational strength by hiring, identifying and developing personnel who are scientifically and/or technically strong
• Establishes a positive culture and atmosphere to maintain good retention and low turnover using available tools and metrics (e.g. Glint survey results)
• Provides effective short- and long-term solutions that support continuous improvement
• Maintain critical thinking, troubleshooting and time management skills aligned with needs of operational areas
• Consistently demonstrates role model leadership and effective communication skills through informal discussions with peers, supervisor, team, cross-site, and externally with collaborators and sponsors
• Ensure laboratory tasks and operations are executed in compliance with SOPs, protocols, regulatory requirements as needed
• Accurately review and approve Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), protocols, policies, best practices and study procedures
• Maintain contemporaneous knowledge of regulatory requirements
• Effectively plans, assigns and directs work within one operational area with expanded scope and/or complexity
• Establishes and actively monitors performance metrics for operational area
• Demonstrates consistent enforcement of policies with employees and manages performance based on the requirements of the employee’s role. Effectively applies progressive discipline as required
• Actively communicates and effectively collaborates and builds strong working relationships with multiple departments within site
• Effectively assists in providing accurate costing estimates for components of applicable studies
• Skillfully oversees the design, conduct, interpretation and reporting of studies as required by operational area
• Effectively utilizes project management systems
• Effectively leads implementation of new procedures and refinement of existing procedures to meet current and future business needs
• Effectively aligns operational resources with the current needs in one operational area
• Actively manages cross-service line interdependencies in collaboration with organizational leadership
• Effectively leads planning (resource management, budgets and study coordination) as well as track budgets and spend vs. revenue for one operational area
• Effectively leads planning (resource management, budgets and study coordination) as well as track budgets and spend vs. revenue for one operational area
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• Effectively leads planning (resource management, budgets and study coordination) as well as track budgets and spend vs. revenue for one operational area
• Effectively leads planning (resource management, budgets and study coordination) as well as track budgets and spend vs. revenue for one operational area
• Effectively leads planning (resource management, budgets and study coordination) as well as track budgets and spend vs. revenue for one operational area
• Effectively leads planning (resource management, budgets and study coordination) as well as track budgets and spend vs. revenue for one operational area
• Effectively leads planning (resource management, budgets and study coordination) as well as track budgets and spend vs. revenue for one operational area
• Effectively leads planning (resource management, budgets and study coordination) as well as track budgets and spend vs. revenue for one operational area
• Effectively leads planning (resource management, budgets and study coordination) as well as track budgets and spend vs. revenue for one operational area
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• Effectively leads planning (resource management, budgets and study coordination) as well as track budgets and spend vs. revenue for one operational area
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• Effectively leads planning (resource management, budgets and study coordination) as well as track budgets and spend vs. revenue for one operational area
• Effectively leads planning (resource management, budgets and study coordination) as well as track budgets and spend vs. revenue for one operational area
• Effectively leads planning (resource management, budgets and study coordination) as well as track budgets and spend vs. revenue for one operational area
• Effectively leads planning (resource management, budgets and study coordination) as well as track budgets and spend vs. revenue for one operational area
• Effectively leads planning (resource management, budgets and study coordination) as well as track budgets and spend vs. revenue for one operational area
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• Effectively leads planning (resource management, budgets and study coordination) as well as track budgets and spend vs. revenue for one operational area