Associate Director, Apheresis & Infusion Operations

Our team are passionate in the pursuit of excellence and in pushing the boundaries of cancer therapy and Autoimmune disease to deliver life-changing treatments to patients. Whilst working at Autolus you will enjoy a flexible, diverse and dynamic working environment which actively promotes creativity, leadership and teamwork – together we are ONE Autolus.

Job Title:

Associate Director, Apheresis & Infusion Operations

Reports to Director, Apheresis & Infusion Operations

Department:
Patient Cell & Management

Hours:

Monday – Friday (core office hours)

Location:

Stevenage (hybrid working)

Autolus is a biopharmaceutical company, advancing innovative therapies at both clinical and commercial stages of development, focused on next-generation, programmed T cell therapies for the treatment of cancer. Using a broad suite of proprietary and modular T cell programming technologies, the company is engineering precisely targeted, controlled, and highly active T cell therapies designed to better recognize cancer cells, break down their defence mechanisms, and eliminate these cells.

Autolus has a pipeline of product candidates in development for the treatment of haematological malignancies, solid tumours, and autoimmune diseases.

Our team is passionate in the pursuit of excellence and in pushing the boundaries of cancer therapy and autoimmune diseases to deliver life-changing treatments to patients. Whilst working at Autolus you will enjoy a flexible, diverse, and dynamic working environment which actively promotes creativity, leadership and teamwork. In addition to this Autolus is proud to offer a competitive salary, performance related bonus as well as a comprehensive benefits package.

Autolus is developing complex, breakthrough therapies for a globally diverse market and equally recognises that diversity amongst our people is critical to our mission. As we draw on our differences, what we’ve experienced, and how we work, we celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

The Associate Director, Apheresis & Infusion Operations is accountable for managing onboarding and on-going performance of Apheresis and Treatment Centres used for Autolus Clinical and Commercial Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) T-cell Therapies. This role will serve as the technical operations single point of contact for Apheresis and Infusion at Treatment Centres located in the United Kingdom and Rest of World (all countries outside of America) and may require management of contract employees.

Up to 50% travel maybe required within the U.K. but occasionally to other regions mainly within the European Union.

• Develop and foster relationships with Apheresis, Cell Lab and Treatment Centre Staff for assigned region.
• Act as the single point of technical expertise for Apheresis and Infusion requirements relating to Autolus activities.
• Work with Apheresis and Treatment Centres to resolve technical issues relating to Autolus activities.
• Work with Clinical and Commercial CAR-T teams to establish the apheresis collection footprint to support the clinical trial and commercial site plans for assigned region.
• Coordinate with internal teams and collection site staff to ensure all collection site onboarding activities are successfully completed and sites are prepared to perform collections for Autolus within the required timelines.
• Communicate collection site on-boarding status to Clinical and Commercial teams and develop and execute mitigation plans for any delayed timelines.
• Perform technical site assessments and train collection center staff on Autolus collection requirements and attend site audits as required.
• Provide…