Associate Director Method Transfers (Bioassays

Job Description

A newly created highly visible leadership role, focused on strengthening and centralizing analytical method transfer capabilities for Large Molecules across the EU/APAC network. For our Animal Health location Boxmeer, we are currently recruiting an Associate Director Method Transfers (Bioassays). Welcome to our team Our Global Science & Technology (S&T) division applies science, technology and innovation to support new product commercialization and ensure supply continuity for animal health manufacturing.

S&T continuously improves processes and analytics to meet customer needs through manufacturing excellence. Within S&T, Global Analytical Technology Solutions (ATS) oversees analytical activities across the Animal Health network. To strengthen and centralize Large Molecule analytical method transfers across the EU/APAC network, we are building a new Bio Method Transfer team of up to five employees. To lead this team, we are looking for an Associate Director Method Transfers (Bioassays).

In this newly created role, you are the leading Bio Method Transfer expert within ATS for Large Molecules working closely with R&D, QC and other key stakeholders to optimize and implement the full end-to-end method transfer process. You will play a key role in ensuring Large Molecule analytical methods are transfer-ready, enabling smooth, right-first-time implementation across QC laboratories in the EU/APAC network.

By shaping and driving execution of the analytical method transfer strategy, aligning key stakeholders, and coordinating the portfolio, you drive efficient method transfers, robust assay performance, and reliable batch release across sites. In addition to people leadership and portfolio oversight, you act as senior Subject Matter Expert (SME) to lead and manage complex method transfers and high-risk investigations. You also serve as a trusted sparring partner to R&D and QC from early method development onwards, providing input to ensure assay robustness, transferability, and operational excellence.

• Contribute to and help define departmental strategy, while leading the Bio Method Transfer team; managing large regional analytical transfer projects including forecasting and monitoring of budgets, costs and headcount.
• Lead complex, multi-site, or high-risk method transfers.
• Act as sparring partner for R&D during early assay development, ensuring that method design, robustness, biomaterials, and operational considerations enable future transferability and unconstrained QC batch release testing.
• Define and lead the New Product Commercialization analytical method transfer strategy including appropriate method robustness, platform suitability, lifecycle considerations, and readiness for right first-time transfer to QC laboratories.
• Own and manage analytical transfer plans at the portfolio and regional level, including budget and QC resource requirements, timelines, milestones, deliverables, documentation, and transfer readiness criteria.
• Execute, optimize and coordinate complex analytical method transfers, including preparation and review of transfer documentation (risk/gap assessments, protocols, reports).
• Align with R&D and QC stakeholders on method readiness, acceptance criteria, specification settings, and documentation standards and ensure coordinated execution across sites.
• Serve as senior SME for LM bioanalytical methods, providing expert troubleshooting, analytical decision making, and design input for robustness and remediation studies.
• Conduct or review advanced data analyses, robustness evaluations, trend assessments, and technical investigations to confirm method performance during development and post-implementation at receiving QC sites.
• Strengthen analytical lifecycle maturity through proactive remediation, structured knowledge capture, continuous improvement practices, and harmonization across ATS Bio Inline Support and Biomaterials Lifecycle teams.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with R&D, QC, QA, (G)
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