What are the responsibilities and job description for the Director Analyte Detection Product Development position at Eurofins Discovery?
Job Description
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
Strategy and Leadership
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
Strategy and Leadership
- Define and execute the development strategy for TR-FRET immunoassays to maximize Eurofins DiscoverX’s competitive position.
- Build, lead, and mentor a high-performing scientific team.
- Manage the development and launch of a new portfolio of TR-FRET immuno-assays following a phased stage-gate launch process.
- Provides regular project planning, progress reporting, and concise summaries of experimental results to internal stakeholders and senior management.
- Either individually conduct or oversee development, troubleshooting, and validation of new TR-FRET assays for the detection of specific analytes in cell culture medium, cell lysates, blood, etc. Works diligently to meet product development goals set by the management team.
- Lead assay validation exercises to determine LLOQ, LLOD, Z’, spike recovery, etc., as well as appropriate benchmarking exercises against competitor products to generate data to support marketing activities.
- Ensures appropriate documentation of assay development history, generates SOPs for kit component manufacturing, and detailed protocols for user manuals to support product launch.
- Partner with the marketing team to define the scope of the portfolio offering, product release specifications, data package requirements, and product release schedule. Provide validation data in formats suitable for inclusion in marketing materials, scientific presentations (posters, webinars, white papers, etc.)
- Collaborate with the manufacturing team to identify and qualify appropriate vendors for critical kit components and train internal manufacturing and QC teams to support kit assembly and component QC.
- Acts as a liaison with external collaborators, partners, or service providers when needed to support assay development or validation.
- Provides cross-functional support to other departments as required.
- Adheres to all site employee health and safety (EHS) and IT security requirements
- Demonstrates and promotes the company vision
- Regular attendance and punctuality
- Conducts all activities in a safe and efficient manner
- Performs other duties as assigned
- Owns accountability and responsibility for delivering to client needs and timelines
- Adjusts work hours as needed to meet client deadlines