Manager, Scientific Affairs- Farmingdale NY Hybrid
The Manager, Scientific Affairs, acts as a scientific and technical liaison between business development and laboratory operations. The Manager, Scientific Affairs plays a role in establishing and maintaining partnerships with biopharma drug development translational and clinical biomarker teams. As such, this individual will participate in customer facing meetings to provide technical, regulatory and scientific consultation and will ascertain customer needs for assay development, assay validation, and clinical trial testing. The individual will review new clinical trial protocols and RFPs and provide technical input to the ICL/ISL Proposals teams. The individual will play a key role in developing a strategic roadmap for the evaluation and implementation of new testing platforms and capabilities in our global laboratory network. The individual may also provide technical and scientific support for marketing collateral and other activities.
Job Description
•Recognize, exemplify and adhere to ICON's values which center around our commitment to People Clients and Performance.
• *Provide scientific support for client-oriented business development and related contractual activities as a subject matter expert on related technologies and methods for oncology biomarker analysis and clinical diagnostics
• Review proposals, protocols and new and updated study specification documents for the tests that are required. Request clarification of requested tests when necessary
• Review of new quotes, technical information, etc. for any new tests being tested at ICON Labs or referred to a reference lab.
• *Act as a technical writer and editor for marketing collateral related to laboratory services
• Evaluate diagnostic and biomarker assay market trends and opportunities across key therapeutic areas for strategic roadmap planning purposes
• *Perform competitor analysis; provide updates on services offered by commercial laboratories who operate in the CRO industry
• *Act as liaison between internal business development and assay development teams and laboratory operations on a project specific basis
• Participate in company presentations to clients
• Evaluate potential strategic partners and markets with respect to platforms, chemistries, biomarkers and applications for strategic roadmap planning purposes
• Represent ICON at industry and scientific conferences
• Maintain knowledge of related industry news and trends
• Identify new opportunities to provide central and specialty lab testing services for new and existing biopharma customers
• Complete assay development checklists and/or assay requirement checklist for custom assay development and validation opportunities
• Other duties as assigned
What you need:
Advanced degree (MD, PhD, PharmD, or equivalent) in a scientific or healthcare-related field.
Minimum of 6 years of experience.
Protocol and clinical laboratory experience.
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