Laboratory Manager

• Oversee daily laboratory operations, including SOP development, workflow optimization, budget monitoring, inventory management, equipment maintenance, and laboratory safety and compliance.
• Manage laboratory supplies and research materials, including antibodies, enzymes, proteins, plasmids, DNA, and other biological reagents.
• Oversee human biospecimen and biobanking operations, including the receipt, accessioning, processing, labeling, storage, tracking, retrieval, and shipment of blood, bone marrow, and other clinical samples.
• Ensure proper sample documentation, chain of custody, inventory management, and accurate record keeping using laboratory information management systems (LIMS) or other tracking software.
• Coordinate with clinical research teams, investigators, and external collaborators to ensure biospecimen workflows comply with study protocols, consent requirements, and applicable regulatory standards.
• Maintain comprehensive sample inventories and generate sample reports to support research projects, clinical trials, and institutional and external biobanking collaborations.
• Manage research agreements, grant and contract deliverables, sample transfers, and the development and implementation of laboratory workflows.
• Support scientific research activities, including next-generation sequencing (NGS) library preparation, PCR, Western blotting, flow cytometry, and tissue culture.
• Oversee mouse colony management, breeding, and genotyping, as needed.
• Manage laboratory records, research materials, protocols, SOPs, and data generated from research activities in collaboration with data management teams.
• Recruit, train, supervise, mentor, and evaluate research technicians and staff scientists, including assigning responsibilities and conducting annual performance reviews.
• Ensure laboratory personnel complete required institutional, NIH, and sponsor training and comply with applicable laboratory policies and procedures.
• Identify and implement improvements to laboratory operations, biobanking workflows, sample management systems, and research processes.
• Collaborate with the Principal Investigator (PI) on research initiatives, external collaborations, and laboratory administration.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in biology, biomedical sciences, molecular biology, or a related scientific discipline required; Master's degree preferred.
• 10+ years of experience in a biological or biomedical research laboratory, including at least 2 years of laboratory management or supervisory experience.
• Hands-on experience working with human biological samples or clinical biospecimens, including blood, bone marrow, or other human tissue samples.
• Direct experience with biobanking, including sample accessioning, processing, storage, inventory management, tracking, and documentation.
• Experience maintaining accurate biospecimen records, sample traceability, and chain-of-custody documentation.
• Experience developing and maintaining laboratory SOPs, protocols, and standardized workflows.
• Familiarity with laboratory operations, equipment maintenance, inventory management, safety, compliance, and record keeping.
• Strong organizational, problem-solving, written communication, and verbal communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to supervise laboratory personnel, manage competing priorities, and coordinate research deliverables.