Senior Laboratory Manager for Ligand Binding Assays

About the role

Sanofi is hiring a Senior Laboratory Manager for its GCI Ligand Binding Assay (LBA) platforms (RIA, ELISA, Luminex, MSD, others). The Global Clinical Immunology (GCI) organization, part of Late Stage Global Immunology within Vaccines R&D, specializes in developing, validating, and deploying regulated bioanalytical assays to assess immune responses to vaccines throughout their lifecycle. Our mission is to provide specialized immunology expertise and generate robust clinical datasets that inform decision-making for both clinical development and post-licensure activities. Our GCLP-compliant bioanalytical laboratories are based in Swiftwater, PA.

Responsibilities

• Scientific oversight and data integrity
• Developing project timelines and scheduling
• Supporting experimental studies
• Contributing to method development, validation, and stability assessments
• Evaluating new technologies to enhance throughput, precision, accuracy, and overall quality

Requirements

• PhD in Science +4 years of relevant professional experience in industry setting
• OR MS in Science +6 years of relevant professional experience in industry setting
• OR BS in Science +9 years of relevant professional experience in industry setting
• Previous experience with Ligand binding assays such as ELISA, RIA, Luminex, MSD, Ortho VITROS, and automated platforms
• Demonstrated team leadership and management experience
• Demonstrated organizational and prioritization skills with a deep understanding of project management

Qualifications

• Clear communicator (written and verbal)
• Written skills required to create clear and concise documents including procedures, deviation investigations, plans, test cases and reports
• Verbal skills required to be able to act as a liaison between different groups/stakeholders, such as GCI and Maintenance/HSE
• Creative and abstract thinking – Required to develop and implement innovative, creative and efficient solutions to issues
• Ability to focus on deadlines and deliverables – Candidate must be goal driven to ensure project timelines are met, and to resolve issues to meet schedules when needed
• Understanding of GXP practices and procedures
• Knowledge of supervisory principles and practices
• Excellent technical skills, analytical ability, judgment with a strong operational focus
• Excellent communications skills
• Excellent interpersonal, technical, scientific and communications skills (written/oral)
• Advanced written and verbal skills