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La position

About the Role

As a Technical Lead Assay Development, you will steer complex, general, and cross-functional diagnostic projects with significant strategic impact and risk potential. You will provide technical leadership to a laboratory team, applying deep scientific expertise to advance core lab technology assay development. In this role, you will analyze R&D; results, champion new diagnostic innovations, drive agile cross-functional collaboration, and pioneer creative solutions beyond conventional approaches. In this role, your work will be focused on the Elecsys/cobas e instrument platform.

Key Responsibilities

- Project Leadership & Technical Steering (40%): Lead and drive technical development within complex, global cross-functional projects involving intricate interface management and long-term strategic impacts. Participate in program and agile ceremonies, collaborate with Product Owners on schedules, and hold accountability for technical PI planning contributions.

- Team Leadership & Scientific Expertise (20%): Provide technical guidance to a laboratory team and support the development of IVD assays and assay components.



Define the competence standards required for operational success and align requirements with team leads.

- Decision Support & Risk Management (10%): Prepare data-driven analyses and information to facilitate key decision-making while assessing and interpreting product and project risks.

- Innovation & Continuous Improvement (10%): Monitor emerging trends and technologies in the diagnostic field, proposing applications for IVD solutions and fostering technical growth within agile teams.

- Stakeholder Collaboration & Networking (10%): Build strong partnerships across internal departments and external collaborators. Help build a vibrant Technical Lead community across functional customer areas.

- Results Analysis & Scientific Dissemination (5%): Analyze and interpret R&D; outcomes, present findings to key functional committees, and support academic/scientific publications.

- Innovative Problem Solving (5%): Independently design and execute innovative solutions outside of established frameworks.

Qualifications & Requirements

Education & Experience

- Education: Master’s degree with 5–7 years of professional experience in developing diagnostic solutions, OR a PhD in Biochemistry or a closely related scientific field.

- Technical Experience: Demonstrated experience in assay development or in-vitro diagnostic (IVD)



solution design, alongside experience in technical supervision/mentorship.

- Matrix Leadership: Experience providing technical direction within complex matrix organizational structures.

- Languages: Business fluent in English (written and spoken).

Specialist Knowledge & Core Competencies

- Deep expertise in IVD assay development and technical solution architecture.

- Advanced scientific, analytical, and complex problem-solving capabilities.

- Strong technical stakeholder management, dependency management, and cross-functional alignment skills.

- Proven communication, presentation, and task delegation skills

- Strategic mindset with the ability to make timely, well-reasoned decisions under uncertainty.

- Openness to agile ways of working and cultural transformation.

- Openness to travel within Europe on a regular basis particularly during the on-boarding

Qui nous sommes

Un avenir plus sain nous pousse à innover. Ensemble, plus de 100 000 employés à travers le monde sont dédiés à faire progresser la science et à garantir à chacun l'accès aux soins de santé aujourd'hui et pour les générations à venir. Nos efforts aboutissent à plus de 26 millions de personnes traitées avec nos médicaments et plus de 30 milliards de tests réalisés avec nos produits de Diagnostique. Nous nous encourageons mutuellement à explorer de nouvelles possibilités, à favoriser la créativité et à conserver nos grandes ambitions, afin de fournir des solutions de santé qui changent des vies et ont un impact mondial.

Construisons ensemble un avenir plus sain.

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