Manager, Scientific Affairs

Job Title: Manager, Scientific Affairs

Location: Dublin 18

At ICON, it's our people that set us apart.

As a global provider of drug development solutions, our work is serious business. But that doesn't mean you can't have fun while you do it. With our vision to be the partner of choice in drug development, we hire only the best and brightest in the industry! Are you one of them?

At ICON, we have an incredible opportunity for an expert Manager, Scientific Affairs to join the team in our Leopardstown, Dublin 18 location.

The Role:

The Manager, Scientific Affairs plays a role in establishing and maintaining partnerships with pharmaceutical and biotech clinical drug development programmes. As such, this individual will participate in customer facing meetings to provide technical and scientific support to ascertain customer needs for assay development, validation, clinical trial testing and CDx strategy as needed. The individual will also provide technical and scientific support for marketing and product development activities. The individual plays a key role in tracking and communicating industry trends as well as obtaining and communicating intelligence related to regulatory approval and commercialisation of companion and complementary assays.

Key Responsibilities:

• Recognise exemplify and adhere to ICON's values, which centre around our commitment to People, Clients and Performance.
• Provide scientific support for client orientated business development and related contractual activities as a subject matter expert on related technologies and methods for oncology biomarker analysis and clinical diagnostics.
• Act as a technical writer and editor for development project and clinical trial proposal documents.
• Act as a technical writer and editor for product marketing collateral.
• Define and asses current oncology drug classes, biomarkers and technology platforms. Evaluate oncology diagnostic assay markets trends and opportunities for strategic planning purposes.
• Perform competitor analysis; provide updates on products and services offered by commercial laboratories who operate in oncology biomarker assay development, clinical trial testing and companion diagnostics development.
• Act as liaison between internal business development and assay development teams on a project specific basis.
• Partner to implement the strategic product development plan and in the development and of product requirements for proposed new products and developments.
• Provide support for IP assessment
• Participate in company presentations to clients
• Develop and edit scientific content for marketing material and project proposals.
• Develop and edit scientific content for marketing material and project proposals
• Evaluate potential strategic partners and markets with respect to platforms, chemistries, biomarkers and applications
• Participate at industry and scientific conferences
• Manage database to track oncology drug pipelines, trials and associated biomarkers
• Maintain knowledge of related industry news and trends
• Identify new opportunities to collaborate in clinical biomarker studies with both industry and academic partners
• Analyze the competitive landscape for and current and potential new product/services
• Maintain the product portfolio roadmap
• Define user/client personas for individual products and services
• Write product requirements and user scenarios
• Maintain a status dashboard for all portfolio products
• Other duties as assigned