Senior Scientist

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R&D Bio-Process Full Time Professional Raleigh, NC, US

Salary Range: $ To $ Annually

TARGAN is seeking an experienced Senior Scientist to lead poultry health research programs supporting product development, validation, commercialization, and lifecycle improvement. This role will design, manage, and interpret laboratory, university, contract research organization (CRO), hatchery, farm, and commercial field studies focused on vaccines, biological delivery systems, poultry health, and production technologies.

The successful candidate will build productive relationships with universities, CROs, poultry companies, and industry partners while serving as a scientific leader across internal and external research programs. This individual will translate scientific, business, and customer needs into robust study plans, oversee execution in controlled and commercial settings, analyze results, and communicate findings that guide product and business decisions.

• Design and oversee laboratory, challenge, hatchery, farm, pilot, and commercial field studies supporting poultry health technologies.
• Develop protocols, experimental designs, sampling plans, randomization and control approaches, success criteria, data-capture plans, and statistical analysis plans.
• Lead field-trial readiness and execution with customer and internal teams, including site selection, schedules, bird placement, equipment and biological availability, sample logistics, training, and contingency planning.
• Provide scientific and hands‑on leadership during study start‑up, treatment application, sample collection, health and production assessments, troubleshooting, and closeout.
• Serve as scientific lead for studies conducted at universities, CROs, customer sites, and other external research partners.
• Manage study timelines, budgets, milestones, deliverables, documentation, protocol deviations, and scientific quality.
• Ensure compliance with approved protocols, animal welfare standards, biosecurity requirements, and data‑integrity expectations.

• Establish and manage strategic relationships with universities, CROs, diagnostic laboratories, poultry companies, and industry collaborators.
• Identify and qualify new research partners based on scientific expertise, technical capabilities, facilities, quality systems, and business needs.
• Manage outsourced research activities, including protocol review, statements of work, study oversight, milestone tracking, data evaluation, and final reporting.
• Coordinate multi‑site research programs involving internal teams, academic investigators, CROs, customers, and other collaborators.
• Represent TARGAN at universities, research partner meetings, scientific conferences, and industry events.

• Partner with poultry producers, veterinarians, hatchery teams, live‑production personnel, and technical service organizations to understand biological and operational challenges.
• Translate customer needs and field observations into testable research objectives and practical evaluation plans.
• Clearly communicate study objectives, roles, risks, requirements, findings, limitations, and recommended next steps to scientific and non‑scientific audiences.
• Support technical presentations, customer education, product demonstrations, post‑trial reviews, and evidence‑based commercialization activities.

• Analyze and interpret data from laboratory, university, CRO, hatchery, farm, and…