Associate Director, NovaSeq X Platform Management Team Lead

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The Platform Manager Team (PMT) lead is responsible for driving improvements to on market products to enhance customer experience & bring key on market insights back to new product development programs. The PMT leads are accountable for their platforms & products with key partnerships in Development, Operations, Marketing, Quality, and Commercial. The PMT leads generally take overall responsibility for on-market support of one or more sequencing platforms starting prior to product launch (engaging with the core team) and continuing through product End of Support (EOS).

The PMT operates in a matrix environment with the PMT lead expected to coordinate and oversee on-market platform projects, application projects, consumables projects and Life Cycle Management. It is a highly collaborative role where you are expected to lead complex cross functional technical troubleshooting investigations in a fast paced and dynamic environment.

The role is for the PMT lead for Illumina's groundbreaking new platform - the NovaSeq X (https://emea.illumina.com/systems/sequencing-platforms/novaseq-x-plus.html).

The role reports to the Director, High Throughput Platform Management Team as part of the On-Market Portfolio Group within Research & Development.

Key Responsibilities:

Ensure the platform is meeting the published performance levels and claims

• Satisfy the needs of post-market surveillance of regulated products
• Aggregate issues and events from all data sources (e.g. field service, development, manufacturing, supply chain, automated status monitoring sources, etc.) to assess overall system performance
• Identify, track, and act on leading indicators of potential issues
• Be the default internal point of contact for the platform
• Understand the evolving needs of our customers and assess any impact on our product definition and specifications

Drive improvement to the platform based on business priorities

• Triage issues and events identified from various sources
• Coordinate root cause/failure analysis activities across functional areas as necessary
• Prioritize activities based on impact and available resources and identify opportunities that could be realized with additional resources
• Negotiate with Business Unit Leaders and other key stakeholders to converge on optimal changes to the platform from a broad company perspective, leveraging organizational resources efficiently
• Coordinate and drive platform extension activities including design change, development, verification, and validation to deliver new applications and/or performance/robustness enhancements

Drive communication throughout the organization about platform performance and plans for the platform

• Generate, maintain, and publish platform roadmap to stakeholders
• Track and report platform performance

Manages PMT that consists of representatives of all key functions associated with the product including, but not limited to, Customer Support, Marketing, Ops, Product Dev, Finance, QA

• Coordinates regular meetings to discuss platform performance
• Drives decisions relating to platform
• Tracks any performance related projects initiated out of the PMT
• Reports to the Director, High Throughput Platform Management Team
• May or may not have direct reports based on the needs dictated by the specific platform

*Must be open to international travel (10-15%) to maintain alignment with global sites and customers

Skills and Experience:

• Proficiency leading project and/or core development teams
• Demonstrated success leading in a matrixed environment
• Solid written and verbal communication skills
• Understanding of IVD/Dx quality and regulatory requirements
• Solid systems level understanding of sequencing technology
• Ideally has experience with one or more Illumina platforms
• Understanding of Business Operations - manufacturing, supply chain, etc.

Education:

M.S./Ph.D. in Engineering, Genomics, Genetics, Molecular Biology or Biochemistry, or related field is desired, along with 8 years of relevant experience managing product development, product sustaining, process development, design, scale-up, improvement, or validation activities/teams.

The estimated base salary range for the Associate Director, NovaSeq X Platform Management Team Lead role based in the United States of America is: $163,900 - $245,900. Should the level or location of the role change during the hiring process, the applicable salary range may be updated accordingly. Compensation decisions are dependent on several factors including, but not limited to, an individual's qualifications, location where the role is to be performed, internal equity, and alignment with market data. Additionally, all employees are eligible for one of our variable cash programs (bonus or commission) and eligible roles may receive equity as part of the compensation package. We offer a wide range of benefits as innovative as our work, including access to genomics sequencing, family planning, health/dental/vision, retirement benefits, and paid time off.

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