Senior Research Associate - PHCS

About the role

Personalized Healthcare Solutions (PHCS) is dedicated to building a healthier future by advancing science and ensuring everyone has access to the healthcare they need. As a global leader in in-vitro diagnostics, we focus on developing innovative solutions that are crucial for decision-making throughout a person's health journey.

• Integrated Solutions: Bringing to market diagnostic testing, laboratory efficiency tools, healthcare digitalization, and decision support software.
• Precision Information: Delivering increasingly precise information through our products to help save lives, manage infection risks, and monitor the effectiveness of treatments.
• Companion Diagnostics: Partnering with pharmaceutical companies to create assays that identify patients who are most likely to respond to a particular drug.

Responsibilities

• Designs experimental plan to support project objectives.
• Executes bench experiments; makes detailed and general observations and analyzes data.
• Prepares technical reports, summaries and quantitative analyses.
• Maintains complete and accurate records.
• Normally acts independently for developing methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for obtaining results.
• Identifies and implements improvements to work processes and laboratory environment.
• Recognized expert across a wide range of techniques and their application.
• Recognizes and documents activities for publication and/or patent potential.
• May participate in scientific conferences and contribute to scientific journals.
• Works on extremely complex problems in which analysis of situations or data requires an evaluation of intangible variables.
• Exercises independent judgment in developing methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for obtaining results.
• Participates or leads cross functional technical teams such as a failure investigation or core team.
• Works well in a team environment by being a productive project team member, suggesting creative solutions to problems and providing input to project planning.
• Establishes interfaces across other organizational groups.
• Trains others in areas of expertise.
• May supervise lower level personnel and laboratory operations.
• Troubleshoots problems and institutes corrective action.
• Prepares and presents experimental procedures and results in group and project teams.
• Monitors work to ensure quality, and continuously promote Quality First Time.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree (Life Sciences preferred).
• Master's degree acceptable with up to 1-3 years of relevant experience.
• 6-8 years of relevant post-college experience.
• Candidates must have a Bachelor's degree.
• Candidates must have at least 6 years and no more than 8 years of post-college experience.
• Candidates with a Ph.D. are not eligible.