Biological Drug Discovery – Project Specialist

Our candidate will be responsible for supporting leads via operational and administrative tasks supporting the externalization of In Vitro and In Vivo pharmacology work. This cross-functional support position will be responsible for collaborating with scientists and other stakeholders in Discovery Sourcing Operations, R&D Procurement, Business Development & Licensing, IT.The responsibilities of this position will extend to utilizing a suite of IT applications will effectively troubleshoot issues, propose solutions for workflow improvements, and document best practices, including the authorship of Standard Operating Guidelines (SOGs).The candidate's responsibilities include:Support the build and execution of kinase profiling requests, collecting requests from project teams, ordering compounds, submitting weekly requests to external provider, distributing data, and archiving data in notebooks. Contribute to the metrification and forecasting of Kinase profilingAssist with partner on-boarding, inventory management, compliance management, and project close-outsPerform biweekly compliance audits of partner notebooksAuthor and maintain workflow documentation and contribute to the development of best practices and internal standard operating guidelines.Support external leads IT in completing assay registration for external partnersAs needed, provide project management and assistance capturing, tracking, and following up on open actions for scientific and project meetingsAssist internal scientists and OPs in tracking and troubleshooting shipments using database toolsConduct User Acceptance Testing (UAT) for internal data software as neededAssist with vendor performance plans, collection for cell sciences, protein production, and molecular biology requests.  Provide training for, and assist with, partner notebook auditsSupporting and tracking IT issues and working with IT and leads to follow-up on problems and managing partner IT issuesSupport cell line registration process including helping partners register their bioinventory