Associate Director

1 week ago


Cambridge, United Kingdom Illumina Full time

What if the work you did every day could impact the lives of people you know? Or all of humanity?

At Illumina, we are expanding access to genomic technology to realize health equity for billions of people around the world. Our efforts enable life-changing discoveries that are transforming human health through the early detection and diagnosis of diseases and new treatment options for patients.

Working at Illumina means being part of something bigger than yourself. Every person, in every role, has the opportunity to make a difference. Surrounded by extraordinary people, inspiring leaders, and world changing projects, you will do more and become more than you ever thought possible.

Associate Director - Customer Collaboration & Innovation (Systems integration/wet lab/Automation) - Cambridge, UK - Onsite

Illumina has an exciting opportunity for an Associate Director to join our Customer Collaboration and Innovation group. You will be involved in collaborating with both external and internal customers across the globe to provide best solutions therefore excellent problem-solving skills is essential. This role requires a thought leader, someone who can collaborate across cross functional teams and be able to project manage and execute projects.

Why us

At Illumina, we are expanding access to genomic technology to realize health equity for billions of people around the world. Our efforts enable life-changing discoveries that are transforming human health through the early detection and diagnosis of diseases and new treatment options for patients.

Illumina's employee benefits are industry-leading and include, flexible time off, private medical insurance, compassion and care time off, leisure travel insurance, pension, lifestyle allowance, employee stock purchasing program, volunteer time off and much more

Why you

Responsibilities include
- Lead the development of high quality, robust system level products and end to end workflows through the innovative integration of existing and soon to be released new products
- Work with customers from government level to individual PIs and translate customer needs into requirements helping to develop high quality products
- Collaborate with key Illumina R/D functions such as Product Dev, RTD and Medical Genomics to stay abreast of new developments
- Collaborate deeply with commercial functions such marketing, sales and S/S to bring these products to market.
- Design and execute test plans and optimize systems product (systems and workflows) performance
- Supervise and direct managers, scientists and researchers
- Engage in the early design of products to represent CCI and customer derived knowledge
- Develop test plans to validate product performance
- Analyze data and troubleshoot issues
- Able to suggest creative solutions to integration issues
- Willingness to be hands-on

Preferred background, skills and experience
- Ability to view at a systems level
- A broad scientific knowledge (instrumentation, automation, chemistry, molecular biology, software etc)
- Multidisciplinary approach to problem solving
- Ability to supervise and direct scientists and research assistants
- Experience of giving input to product design at an early stage of development
- Experience and knowledge of the ways that changes in one part of systems can affect performance of other parts and the whole system
- Experience writing and executing test plans to validate systems-based products performance and robustness
- Demonstrated ability to understand and successfully work across multiple disciplines such as engineering, software, and manufacturing highly desired.
- Must be detail oriented and highly motivated.
- A desire to be a part of a fast paced, multidisciplinary and dynamic environment.
- Solid communication and writing skills required

Experience/Education:

- Requires PhD in a scientific discipline or equivalent
- Experience in the field of sequencing would be advantageous
- Considerable experience in successful, commercial product development preferred
- Significant years’ experience in a sales organization preferred
- Broad knowledge of all areas within Corporate sub-function or a function within an operation. Typically has depth of technical knowledge in function derived from experience in non-management and middle management roles.
- Requires high level understanding of markets and sales opportunities for the company’s products.
- Typically has extensive experience of applicable management experience as assessed by Illumina Executive Staff

What can you expect

Our team members are bright, energetic and dedicated - they are the driving force behind our innovation and impact. To attract the best and brightest, we offer a competitive employee benefits program. We view it as a smart investment in our people, one that recognizes the tremendous value they bring to our business every day. At Illumina, we push boundaries. We think beyond the conventional. We dream big. With the energy



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