Scientific Director – Antibody Discovery

Job Description

Eurofins Scientific is an international life sciences company, providing a unique range of analytical testing services to clients across multiple industries, to make life and our environment safer, healthier and more sustainable. From the food you eat, to the water you drink, to the medicines you rely on, Eurofins laboratories work with the biggest companies in the world to ensure the products they supply are safe, their ingredients are authentic and labelling is accurate.

The Eurofins network of companies is the global leader in food, environment, pharmaceutical and cosmetic product testing and in agroscience Contract Research Organization services. It is one of the market leaders in certain testing and laboratory services for genomics, discovery pharmacology, forensics, advanced material sciences and in the support of clinical studies, as well as having an emerging global presence in Contract Development and Manufacturing Organizations.

It also has a rapidly developing presence in highly specialized and molecular clinical diagnostic testing and in-vitro diagnostic products.

In over 30 years, Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes, France to 58,000 staff across a decentralized and entrepreneurial network of 900 laboratories in over 54 countries. Eurofins companies offer a portfolio of over 200,000 analytical methods to evaluate the safety, identity, composition, authenticity, origin, traceability and purity of biological substances and products.

In 2024, Eurofins generated total revenues of EUR € 6,515 billion, and has been among the best performing stocks in Europe over the past 20 years.

Job Title: Scientific Director – Antibody Discovery for Biotherapeutic Services. The Scientific Director will support the Biotherapeutic Services Business as a scientific leader for technical and laboratory operations and direct client management. This role requires technical and strategic leadership, managerial competencies, and proficiency with client consultation within a contract research organization. This role may include up to 25% travel.

The Scientific Director, Antibody Discovery for Biotherapeutic Services is a scientific leadership position, responsible for providing guidance for establishing and growing antibody discovery platforms and alignment between our customer base, the industry at large, commercial teams and service operations. This role will be collaborative and influential in a broad network of business functions in support of driving business growth, brand recognition, and alignment with Eurofins core competencies of delivering high quality services to our valued customers.

The successful candidate will:

• Spend time in the lab to define, develop and/or expand antibody discovery platforms in BTX
• Develop client and stakeholder relationships through technical leadership and collaboration
• Deliver scientific leadership to executive management in developing portfolio strategy, new growth areas and new technology planning
• Lead scientific community through external marketing, industry reputation and brand awareness
• Provide leadership in establishing and monitoring unit research and development objectives and commercial lifecycle management
• Provide technical leadership to lab operations, business development and marketing team
• Support client services team in generating proposals, RFPs, study plans and scope of work preparation. Assists pricing team in completing custom pricing and cost analysis
• May act as Study Director for specific projects to ensure timely delivery of project updates, data and reports to clients
• Understand requirements for work performed within a GxP site in order to work with other organizations within the Eurofins family
• Complete required training and support 100% of Employee Health and Safety requirements
• Conduct responsible use of confidential IT and business systems, as required
• Adhere to department SOP and documentation requirements
• Ensure accurate data management and reporting, with the highest integrity, and perform quality…