Passionate about precision medicine and advancing the healthcare industry?

Recent advancements in underlying technology have finally made it possible for AI to impact clinical care in a meaningful way. Tempus' proprietary platform connects an entire ecosystem of real-world evidence to deliver real-time, actionable insights to physicians, providing critical information about the right treatments for the right patients, at the right time.

We are looking for a Molecular Operations Manager who will be responsible for overseeing day to day management of the NGS clinical testing laboratory.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Coordinate the operational activities of a cutting-edge clinical laboratory to support a molecular workflow with rapid turnaround times. This role primarily oversees next-generation sequencing workflows for oncology panels.
• Provides technical direction, mentoring, and professional guidance to laboratory employees
• Oversee initiation and, at times creation, of incident reports while leading full root cause analyses into batch failures
• Resolve technical, instrument, or unexpected tests results and ensures corrective
  actions are taken whenever test systems deviate from the laboratory’s established performance specifications
• Provide solutions to highly complex problems and apply a high degree of ingenuity,
  creativity and innovation
• Reviews daily, weekly, and monthly QC results and determines the validity of results,
  performs follow up as needed
• Maintain regulatory compliance within the lab, including CAP, CLIA, OSHA
• Develop and implement workflows for new assays, in collaboration with R&D
• Evaluate the competency of all testing personnel on an ongoing basis

Qualifications:

• M.S. (physical, chemical, or biological science) + at least 4 years pertinent
  clinical lab experience (at least 2 of which are in the designated specialty)
• BS in clinical laboratory science, chemical, physical or biological sciences and at least 7 years of pertinent clinical lab experience
• Experience supervising others in a CLIA/CAP high-complexity laboratory
• Experience in Next Generation Sequencing
• Excellent communication skills
• Ability to delegate tasks to other
• Thrives in a fast-paced environment
• Ability to work with others to plan and carry out scientific programs
• Self-driven and works well in an interdisciplinary team with minimal direction
• Strong desire to build products that will save lives and change the course of cancer

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