AmpSeq programme Director

• Department: Programme and Project Management
• Compensation: USD 200,000 - USD 250,000 - yearly

Company Description

LGC is a leading, global life science tools company, providing mission-critical components and solutions into high-growth application areas across the human healthcare and applied market segments. Our high-quality product portfolio is comprised of mission-critical tools for genomic analysis and for quality assurance applications, which are typically embedded and recurring within our customers’ products and workflows and are valued for their performance, quality and range.

Our tools play a key role in customer workflows from discovery applications through to commercial manufacture and enable its customers to: bring new diagnostics and therapies to market; progress research and development; optimize food production; and continuously monitor and enhance the quality of food, the environment and consumer products.

LGC’s 175+ years of scientific heritage, combined with a track record of innovation and value-enhancing acquisitions, has enabled the company to build its product portfolio and expertise, and develop deep relationships with customers, industry partners and the global scientific community. Join us and help us achieve our mission of Science for a Safer World

Our kit and component manufacturing sites are situated across the US (Middleton, Petaluma, and Novato) and Europe (Berlin and Lystrup) and are underpinned by either ISO 13485 or ISO 9001 compliance. These capabilities support a wide portfolio of off-the-shelf components and kits critical to NGS workflows including magnetic beads, oligos, enzymes, and library prep kits. Additionally, our primary manufacturing capabilities enable customization and bulk (OEM) manufacture of reagents such as key NGS enzymes for high volume applications.

Job Description

The AmpSeq Programme Director is responsible for leading the cross-functional programme required to scale AmpSeq from strategic growth priority into a robust, governed, commercially reliable and operationally sustainable global platform.

The role provides overall programme leadership across customer intake, design, pilot execution, kit manufacture, services delivery, BioIT, quality, supply chain, commercial readiness, product development and site implementation. It is accountable for governance, prioritisation, risk management, stakeholder alignment, KPI tracking and delivery of the AmpSeq roadmap across Middleton, Berlin and other contributing sites. The role works closely with Operations, Commercial, Innovation Hub, Product Development, Quality, Bioinformatics, Supply Chain, Finance, PMO and senior leadership to ensure AmpSeq growth is delivered with clear ownership, scalable processes and measurable business impact.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to capably perform each of the following essential duties:

Business Impact: Lead the AmpSeq programme as a strategic growth platform, driving delivery of revenue, customer conversion, operational scale-up, service readiness and programme outcomes across global stakeholders.

Innovation & Change: Direct cross-functional change across NGS workflows, portal adoption, panel design, pilot execution, manufacturing scale-up, BioIT support, quality controls and customer onboarding.

Type of Work: Balance strategic programme leadership with operational issue resolution, ensuring near‑term delivery risks are managed while building a sustainable future‑state operating model.

Key Stakeholders: Partner with global Operations, Commercial, Product Development, Innovation Hub, BioIT, Quality, Supply Chain, Finance, PMO, site leadership and senior executives to align priorities and unblock delivery.

Communications: Provide clear programme updates, escalation packs, decision logs, risk summaries, KPI reporting and leadership communications for operational reviews, steering committees and executive forums.

People Management: Lead through direct and matrixed teams, setting expectations, assigning accountable owners, clarifying decision rights and supporting capability development across programme workstreams.

Process Oversight: Own the programme governance model, including operational huddles, Tier 2 escalation reviews, steering committee decisions, intake and questionnaire review, action tracking, decision tracking and risk management.

Subject Matter Expertise: Apply strong understanding of NGS services, AmpSeq customer workflows, design‑to‑pilot processes, kit manufacture, service delivery, BioIT dependencies, quality expectations and operational scale‑up.

Continuous Improvement: Identify and drive improvements in turnaround time, first‑time‑right performance, traceability, inventory management, workflow standardisation, dashboarding and operational handoffs.

Data & Metrics: Establish and manage KPIs