Site Name: Belgium-Wavre
Posted Date: Nov 12 2024
As the Scientific Leader and an expert in clinical assays within the Vaccines Clinical Laboratory & Assay portfolio (VxCL&AP) to be:
* The scientific and strategic lead in the development and maintenance of clinical assays to detect and quantify biomarkers.
* An assay owner, responsible for the whole life cycle management of clinical assays including the design, development, validation, maintenance, monitoring and troubleshooting.
Your responsibilities:
* You lead the strategy for the technical development and validation of clinical virological functional assays used in one/several clinical trials.
* You act as assay owner:
Ensuring assay performance fits its intended use by writing and reviewing the assay target profile.
Being the principal author and controlling assay development, assay qualification, assay validation plans and reports in agreement with quality by design principles and fulfill requirements from regulatory authorities.
Writing and reviewing regularly assay summaries and procedures (SOPs).
Being principal author of regulatory documents related to clinical laboratory assays.
Developing and controlling the assay maintenance and monitoring plans.
Developing and controlling qualification critical reagent plans.
Transferring assay inside/outside of GSK.
Performing assay troubleshooting and controlled assay continuous improvement.
* You ensure all activities under responsibility are performed in compliance with Quality Assurance (QA) guidelines, relevant regulations and internal policies.
* You provide support:
For the definition of the assay target profile in agreement with the assay intended use in clinical endpoints.
For the development of documents for INDs, regulatory submissions, response to questions from regulatory authorities during submission, inspections.
For the review of the study design and protocol and discussion of study data.
* You supervise continuous improvements of clinical laboratory processes, introduction of state-of-the-art methodologies, innovative solutions and cross-functional team efforts.
Managing team of Expert Scientists and providing scientific coaching.
Why you?
Basic Qualifications:
We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:
* PhD or Master’s degree in science or pharmacy with at least 7 years of expertise in the field.
Area of Specialization: Biology, Virology, Immunology, cell cultures.
* Fluency in written and spoken technical English, fluency in written and spoken French.
* Good knowledge of virology functional assays (seroneutralization assays) and cell cultures (Vero cell, Hep2, MDCK..).
* Strong technical background in bio-analytical sciences.
* Quality mindset.
* Ability to work in a matrix organization; multi-cultural awareness is an asset.
* Change management: ability to lead and drive change.
* Strong influencing skills to engage and align operational teams.
* Excellent interpersonal skills with ability to lead cross functional teams.
* Effective communication skills to all levels in the organization, including presentation skills.
* Sense of urgency, flexibility and accountability.
Preferred qualifications:
If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:
* PhD degree in science or pharmacy.
* Expertise in laboratory operations, assay validation, GCLP is a plus.
* Skilled in automation assessment is a plus.
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