The Senior Director of Vaccine Research will be responsible for leading a research organization focused on creating important vaccines for human health. Responsibilities will include identifying and assessing new vaccine technologies targeted at important diseases as well as supporting and enhancing existing vaccines in our portfolio.

The leader of the vaccine research group will report to the Vice-President of Research & Development for our vaccine organization and be responsible for leading and managing a research staff with a wide range of technological expertise including molecular virology, immunology and animal models. The head of vaccine research should have in depth knowledge of infectious diseases and vaccines and committed to bringing forward innovative vaccine approaches to important disease targets. The director will work closely with colleagues from infectious disease research, clinical research, development and business development to identify and assess new vaccine targets as well as the technologies needed to address them. The head of vaccine research will work closely with the vaccine development groups to move clinical candidates forward and support early stage clinical studies.
Provide leadership for the organization and manage a staff responsible for conducting discovery research as well as providing services for the organization.

Key team member responsible for the development of the companys vaccine pipeline.
Form effective alliances with groups from around the organization.
Manage a diverse array of research programs spanning preclinical projects to life cycle management of existing vaccines.  Provide significant scientific insight into R&D of vaccine and infectious disease technologies.
Keep current with leading edge vaccine technologies and emerging disease areas.
Effectively represent our capabilities and programs to the scientific community

To apply:

If you are interested in this or other positions we have open, please call us and/or email and include your resume and the best time and number at which to contact you:

(Ms) Basirah Al'Basit
RS&A  Scientific Search
Sedona, AZ 86339-2337 USA

TEL:  (928) 203-0074
EM:  RSA@sedona.net 

RS&A is a search firm working with pharma/biopharma/med diagnostics companies, primarily in the US. We are representing a world wide drug development service company for one of their facilities located on the (US) East Coast.