Senior Director, Proteomics Research, Germany

**Position Overview**

The Senior Director, Proteomics Research works on multiple projects that are extremely complex in scope, often across multiple groups and sites. As a technical expert and a leader, the Senior Director, Proteomics Research is responsible for providing overall directions, technical insights, guidance, and mentoring to a large group of scientists to ensure successful planning, design, and execution of proteomics research-related projects.

Specifically, the Senior Director, Proteomics Research is responsible for determining the scope, technical difficulty, plan, time, resources, and risks associated with new assignments and projects geared toward protein biomarkers discovery and validation. He/she will be providing leadership and guidance to a team of scientists in Planegg, Germany with the focus on leveraging mass spectrometry to discover biomarkers that help advance cancer diagnosis and treatment. The Senior Director will also be managing the Planegg research facility in which the mass spectrometry research will be performed. This includes day to day operational management, budgeting, and forecasting which are an integral part of the overall research and technology development budgeting and plans.

**Essential Duties**

Include, but are not limited to, the following:

- Provide leadership and technical guidance and mentorship to a team of research associates and scientists.
- Work on significant and unique issues where analysis, situations, or data requires an evaluation of intangible variables and may impact future concepts, products, or technologies.
- Work on multiple projects that are extremely complex in scope, often across multiple groups and sites.
- Determine the scope, technical difficulty, plan, timeline, resources, and risks associated with new assignments and projects.
- Present and clearly communicate findings of research at data meetings, group meetings, and project team meetings to determine the next steps and the path forward for successful outcomes.
- Identify, adapt, and advance new technology initiatives.
- Exercise latitude and independent judgement to determine methods and procedures or technologies on new assignments and provide ideas for new techniques.
- Maintain thorough knowledge of technological industry developments; provide technical assessment, guidance, and help with Go/No Go decisions when evaluating or developing technologies, methods, and procedures.
- Provide deep scientific leadership and technical input and help guide decisions affecting project planning and experimental design or product development.
- Prepare, provide, and present information and data for scientific abstracts, industry conferences, project meetings, or publications.
- Perform complex analyses and present results and data driven outcomes to Senior Management, as well as to a variety of audiences throughout the organization.
- Contribute to the intellectual property portfolio by implementing innovative and creative ideas to solve problems or improve on current methods, as well as guide and shape nascent ideas that are presented by the scientists and team members.
- Provide help with IP disclosure and assist in answering questions related to IP filings.
- Prepare, review, and approve detailed technical procedures, protocols, and reports.
- Prepare reports and documentation and provide highly technical analysis or summarization of experimental results and project/study outcomes, next steps and provide future direction of the project, and help senior management/project teams with determining Go/No Go decisions.
- Share ideas and be receptive to new ideas when collaborating within and across departments.
- Question the status quo and seek and evaluate improvements to existing technologies, processes, or methods.
- Undertake independent and collaborative research to meet department and project objectives.
- Promote an open, collaborative environment built on trust to foster positive teamwork that allows for free exchange of ideas.
- Invest in developing talent to meet both career goals and the organization's goals.
- Create and deliver high quality presentations that effectively communicate and tie into a cohesive story the project status and/or experimental results.
- Effectively manage, support, and guide your team, including, but not limited to delegating tasks and responsibilities, assess employee performance and provide helpful feedback and training opportunities.
- Consistent demonstration of exceptional leadership qualities, including, but not limited to the ability to attract and retain the best team, foster a culture of high performance, lead with integrity, humility, accountability, and courage, and set a clear vision to energize teams towards the future.
- Ability to effectively work on several varied projects at one time, with frequent changing priorities.
- Excellent analytical, problem solving, and decision-making skills.
- Exercise technical proficiency, scientific creativ