Hybrid Principal, Biorepository Operations – Precision Medicine

at Thermo Fisher Scientific

• Job title: Principal, Biorepository Operations – Precision Medicine
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: $160,000 - $180,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Postgraduate Degree
• Tech skills: Google Cloud Platform
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Remote, United States

About the role

• Principal overseeing biorepository operations at Thermo Fisher, ensuring quality and compliance across precision medicine. Driving enterprise strategy and lifecycle management of biospecimens with significant leadership influence.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive enterprise strategy for biorepository operations supporting precision medicine initiatives.
• Establish operating frameworks, governance models, and best practices to ensure scalability, quality, and compliance.
• Provide strategic oversight of the full biospecimen lifecycle including, clinical site collection, laboratory analysis, data generation and quality control, customer delivery and long-term storage.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to the Head of Precision Medicine, CMO, and senior leadership.
• Ensure compliance with GCP, IRB, ISO, and precision medicine governance frameworks.
• Set strategic direction for LIMS/BIMS, inventory systems, and analytics platforms.
• Serve as an operational SME in customer meetings and governance discussions.
• Enable and develop leaders and teams across biorepository operations.

Requirements

• Master’s degree required (MS, MPH, MSc, in a scientific field)
• 10+ years of experience in biorepository operations, biospecimen management, clinical research, or precision medicine.
• Demonstrated enterprise-level leadership and influence in matrixed environments.
• Preferred Qualifications: PhD or equivalent degree in a scientific field.
• Experience supporting precision medicine programs, registries, observational research, or large-scale biospecimen initiatives.
• Experience contributing to business development and customer-facing solution design.

Benefits

• A choice of national medical and dental plans, and a national vision plan, including health incentive programs
• Employee assistance and family support programs, including commuter benefits and tuition reimbursement
• At least 120 hours paid time off (PTO), 10 paid holidays annually, paid parental leave (3 weeks for bonding and 8 weeks for caregiver leave), accident and life insurance, and short- and long-term disability in accordance with company policy
• Retirement and savings programs, such as our competitive 401(k) U.S. retirement savings plan
• Employees’ Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) offers eligible colleagues the opportunity to purchase company stock at a discount