Program Director

Role Purpose

The Program Director isresponsible for the business development, packaging and commercial readiness ofthe company's high-containment (ABSL-3 / BSL-3) laboratory services, withactive participation industry events/global contacts.

Key Responsibilities

Programme Management & Commercial Packaging

• Package the company's offerings and ensure their commercial readiness across ABSL-3/BSL-3 offerings
• Develop the catalogue of service offerings in conjunction with the relevant Facility Director and the Commercial team
• Have pipeline of potential candidates to use the ABSL-3 lab.

Laboratory Services (ABSL-3 / BSL-3)

• Build and convert a pipeline of ABSL-3 / BSL-3 contracts across pharmaceutical, biotechnology, government and academic sponsors, and private and commercial project requirements proof of concept and execute.
• Identify new opportunities and represent the company's high-containment capabilities to prospective clients
• Prepare technical and scientific proposals and study designs to support bids and tenders
• Work with the Commercial team, who lead pricing, quotation and contract negotiation
• Manage sponsor and client relationships as the lead scientific point of contact
• Represent the company at conferences, with licensing bodies and other stakeholders
• Develop and oversee preclinical study protocols, including in-vivo challenge and efficacy models where applicable
• Provide oversight and maintain scientific quality across projects
• Ensure data integrity across validation, curation and sponsor reporting
• Conduct or support laboratory work within ABSL-3 / BSL-3 containment as project needs require
• Contribute to the safe and efficient running of high-containment studies alongside the facility and biosafety teams
• Conduct training, and manage conference planning for both Asia Pacific and global events. Can package training/skills update sessions, knowledge sharing/certification.

Required Qualifications & Experience

• PhD (or equivalent) in microbiology, virology, immunology, biomedical sciences or a related field
• Minimum 10+ years of relevant experience in industry, well respected and connected who has the network of researchers/operators.
• Demonstrated leadership of successful research programmes in infectious disease or another area requiring ABSL-3 / BSL-3 containment
• Client-facing, communication and networking skills
• Able to meet the medical-surveillance and personal protective equipment (PPE) requirements of high-containment work, including respirator fit-testing
• Good communication, both written and spoken English is required
• Hands-on experience with pathogens and ABSL-3 / BSL-3 work
• Experience with in-vivo / animal models
• Able to write cases, justification for the proposal of labs to client, benchmarking to other labs. Some knowledge of the landscape is critical.
• Got to have experience working with our Advisory Board and vendors.
• Vetting through technical requirements for lab operations and handle lab operations from initiation to delivery of projects