Yacht Life Sciences has a vacancy for a Clinical Immunology Sourcing Associate to work at the Clinical Immunology (CI) department of Janssen Vaccines & Prevention in Leiden.

The CI departmental support team is responsible for the outsourcing strategy and contracting for Immuno assays for Vaccine programs. Building good relationships with Immuno labs and collaboration with other roles in CI to successfully outsource activities is key. In addition, the group is responsible for conducting and overseeing feasibility and qualification of clinical Sample Processing Laboratories (SPLs) as requested by the Global Clinical Operations department (GCO) both in an insourced and outsourced model.

Job responsibilities:

• Perform feasibility and qualification of Global SPLs on request of GCO (e.g. review data, request training, give on-site training on peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC isolation) and manage CRO’s performing these tasks
• Ensure a sufficient quality of isolated PBMCs before qualification of the SPLs  
• Managing the setup of vendor contracts with procurement in a timely manner
• Function as Point of Contact for vendors to obtain Scope of Works, PO management and be involved as needed in issue escalations.
• Build and maintain internal relationships (Global Development & Procurement) with and external relationships (Immuno labs and SPL’s)
• Build and maintain an internal and external networks to optimize the feasibility and qualification process for SPL’s

Areas of Support:

• Training of SPL personnel on PBMC isolation by advising and/or on-site trainings
• Process improvement 
• Support vendor RFP & governance processes
• Participate in Technical visits or regular vendor F2F meetings