Manager, Scientific Affairs - Dublin, Ireland

Manager, Scientific Affairs- Dublin, Ireland - Hybrid

ICON plc is a world-leading healthcare intelligence and clinical research organization. We’re proud to foster an inclusive environment driving innovation and excellence, and we welcome you to join us on our mission to shape the future of clinical development.

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.

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What ICON can offer you:
Our success depends on the quality of our people. That’s why we’ve made it a priority to build a diverse culture that rewards high performance and nurtures talent.

In addition to your competitive salary, ICON offers a range of additional benefits. Our benefits are designed to be competitive within each country and are focused on well-being and work life balance opportunities for you and your family.

Our benefits examples include:

• Various annual leave entitlements
• A range of health insurance offerings to suit you and your family’s needs.
• Competitive retirement planning offerings to maximize savings and plan with confidence for the years ahead.
• Global Employee Assistance Programme, LifeWorks, offering 24-hour access to a global network of over 80,000 independent specialized professionals who are there to support you and your family’s well-being.
• Life assurance
• Flexible country-specific optional benefits, including childcare vouchers, bike purchase schemes, discounted gym memberships, subsidized travel passes, health assessments, among others.

Visit our careers site to read more about the benefits ICON offers.

At ICON, inclusion & belonging are fundamental to our culture and values. We’re dedicated to providing an inclusive and accessible environment for all candidates. ICON is committed to providing a workplace free of discrimination and harassment. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process, or in order to perform the essential functions of a position, please let us know or submit a request here

Interested in the role, but unsure if you meet all of the requirements? We would encourage you to apply regardless – there’s every chance you’re exactly what we’re looking for here at ICON whether it is for this or other roles.

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