Lab and Operation Manager

Conditions of Employment: Proof of Eligibility to work in Switzerland (Swiss work permit or Swiss / European citizenship)

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?About the job

We are seeking highly motivated candidates to join our headquarters in Lausanne.

You will be joining a dynamic start-up to improve and implement operations and logistics according to the incoming needs. You will help with enrollments of new employees and be implicated on some financial and high technological projects such as the implementation of the ERP.

HAYA seeks candidates who are creative, goal-oriented, excellent communicators, motivated to learn new skills and work collaboratively in a fast-paced entrepreneurial environment.

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Primary responsibilities

• Responsible for general lab management and operations
  
  • Getting in contact with specific manufacturers and suppliers for products availability, turnaround time for production and estimation of delivery
  • Responsible for ordering and invoicing processes
  • Maintenance of the supply chain
  • Coordination of national and international logistics
  • Handling urgent laboratory needs providing in a timely manner solutions and/or alternatives
  • Instrument set-up, maintenance, revision and troubleshooting
• Provide to leadership and executives record of information
• Acting as biosafety officer
• Preparation, revision and implementation of lab related SOPs
• Support with ERP implementation for lab related processes
• Electronic reporting systems set-up, maintenance and implementation (ELN, Lims, Benchling, Databases)

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Requirements

The ideal candidate for this position needs:

• At least a master's degree in science/biology or related field
• 5 years of professional experience in a similar position 
• sociable, customer-oriented and a team player
• English as a professional language
• Ability to lead, motivate and develop a small group
• Analytical and systematic thinking skills as well as organizational skills
• resilient and persistent
• Knowledge of cell culture and molecular biology protocols and workflows
  

Core Values:

• Creativity & Innovation. Scientifically curious and bold. Generates new and creative approaches to problem solving. Positive ‘can-do’ attitude. Views the toughest challenges as the greatest opportunities for personal growth and company innovation. Able to challenge convictions and dogma.
  

• Teamwork. Fully engaged in facilitating personal and team success. Reaches out to peers and cooperates with the team to establish an overall collaborative work environment. Often solicits and responds well to constructive feedback. Possesses good written and oral communication skills with the ability to clearly and concisely convey ideas and opinions.
  

• Flexibility/adaptability. Adjusts quickly to changing strategic and tactical priorities. Comfortable with ambiguity. Self-starter mentality.
  

• Fast-acting/efficient. Proactive and quick decision making with a strong work ethic to produce high-quality results while fostering a positive work environment. Focuses on key tasks and priorities. Demonstrates tenacity and willingness to go the distance to get something done.
  

• Integrity. Does not cut corners. Does what is right not just what is politically expedient. Speaks plainly and truthfully. Earns trust and maintains confidences. Expects a high level of personal performance and team performance. Follows-through on commitments.
  

• Critical thinking. Learns quickly. Demonstrates ability to proficiently understand new information and to independently pursue and achieve meaningful outcomes. Able to structure and process qualitative/quantitative data and draw key conclusions.
  

HAYA Therapeutics is a precision medicines company developing RNA-guided programmable therapeutics targeting the regulatory genome for serious health conditions including cardiovascular disease and cancer. The company is using its innovative cell-state modifying platform to gain novel insights into the biology of long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs), - the ‘dark genomes’ information processing features and ‘source code’.

HAYA’s lead therapeutic candidate is HTX-001, an antisense oligonucleotide targeting Wisper, which is a tissue and cell-specific cardiac lncRNA known to play a role in heart failure. The company is also developing a pipeline of lncRNA-targeting candidates for the cell-specific treatment of diseases in other tissues, including the lungs and the microenvironment of solid tumor cancers.

Headquartered at the life sciences park Biopôle in Lausanne, Switzerland with laboratory facilities at JLABS @ San Diego, HAYA is led by a world-class team of experts in programmable and precision RNA-targeted therapeutics and is supported by a strong investor consortium. HAYA’s mission is to identify and develop breakthrough disease-modifying therapeutics with the potential for greater efficacy, safety, and accessibility than existing treatments.