Associate Director, Laboratory Automation - Bioanalysis

Johnson & Johnson is recruiting for an Associate Director, Laboratory Automation - Bioanalysis, located in Spring House, PA.

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As an Associate Director of the Laboratory Automation Team within the Department of Bioanalytical Discovery and Development Sciences at Johnson & Johnson, you will provide technical leadership in portfolio support and strategic initiatives to enable the efficient execution and continuous improvement of laboratory automation.

This role presents an outstanding opportunity to lead and innovate in bioanalytical automation, making a significant impact on the drug discovery and development pipeline across a variety of therapeutic areas.

This role will closely partner with nonclinical and clinical bioanalyst to ensure optimal utilization of laboratory automation in support of pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, and immunogenicity.

A key responsibility of this role is to drive effective strategies using state-of-art automation technologies to improve bioanalytical support and operational workflows.

Key Responsibilities:


* Establish operational objectives and develop automation strategies to support internal assay development, validation, sample analysis and to facilitate assay transfer to external CRO vendors by delivering automated solutions.


* Manage the operations, programming, new functionality implementation, and troubleshooting of liquid handling systems such as Hamilton, Tecan, Biomek, and other automated workstations.


* Provide strategic, SME, and technical leadership to the team and ensure optimal utilization of laboratory automation instruments to meet specific user requirements and improve assay robustness and scal...