Director, XDC Technical Lead

Job Responsibilities

• Leads a cross-functional integrated discovery team with functional leaders from Protein/antibody Sciences, Linker-Payload discovery, Bio-conjugation discovery, in vitro characterization, in vivo characterization, Developability study in accordance to discovery phases.
• Has oversight over functional teams and provides project and portfolio leadership, supporting lead selection for preclinical candidates.
• Collaborates with discovery functional areas to ensure successful execution of various integrated discovery projects, and delivery of results on time and within budget.
• Coordinates efforts and facilitates communication to ensure alignment between WuXi XDC and clients.
• Works with a high-performance team to ensure the best quality services.
• Enhances current services and develops new clients.
• Led the scope discussion and proposal review.
• Identifies the technical risks and provides preventive strategies.
• Facilitates cross projects and cross sites sharing and learning.
• Participates/leads task force for specific technical topics.

Qualifications

• PhD in biological sciences, biochemistry, chemistry, chemical engineering, pharmaceutical sciences, or related discipline with a minimum of 10 years of relevant experience.
• Strong experience in bio-conjugation.
• Comprehensive scientific background in biotechnology, and/or protein chemistry, and/or small molecule drug discovery, and/or analytics, and/or in vitro / in vivo characterization.
• Proven experience in creating and carrying out successful plans and processes to solve complex problems.
• Works closely with team members across all discovery related business units and with the WuXi XDC management team to ensure coordination of all efforts and real-time communication with all stakeholders.
• Must be self-motivated, and highly flexible for online meetings necessary with clients and technical teams during evening time.
• Proficiency in English and Mandarin.

Other Special Requirements

• Candidate should possess strong and effective project management, problem-solving, and interpersonal skills and have a proven track record working cross-functionally across a wide variety of technical, business, and operational areas.
• Demonstrates good understanding of the pharmaceutical industry and small or large molecule drug discovery.
• Experienced in working in cross-functional project teams and in complex environments, experience in project management and risk assessment is a plus.
• Experience in a Contract Research Organization (CRO) or Contract Manufacturing Organization (CMO) is preferred, but not required.
• Must have working knowledge of MS Office products.