# Biobank Lead (Senior Manager / Associate Director)

**Company**: Quotient Therapeutics
**Location**: Cambridge, UK
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Research
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

Quotient Therapeutics is seeking an experienced, detail-oriented operational leader to run the management, process control, governance, and quality leadership of its research tissue bank.

The successful candidate will lead across the whole sample lifecycle, from procurement review and receipt through storage, use, reuse, transfer, and disposal, and keep Quotient compliant with its Human Tissue Authority (HTA) research licence.

Key responsibilities:

- Biobank governance and strategy: Own Quotient's research tissue bank strategy, aligning governance, capacity, resources, and operating systems with the research portfolio, and recommend investment and improvements.

- HTA compliance: Act as the HTA Designated Individual for Quotient's research licence, supervising licensed activities and making sure that staff, premises, storage, and procedures meet HTA requirements.

- Sample access and use authorisation: Review access, initial use, reuse, and onward transfer against consent, research ethics approvals, licence scope, and contractual permissions, and document each decision.

- Sample acquisition and custody: Own custody controls from handover at receipt through registration, storage, retrieval, distribution, and disposal, including manifests, shipment conditions, acceptance checks, handovers, and receipt acknowledgements.

- Inventory systems and traceability: Integrate sample inventory with LIMS and ELN records, keeping identifiers, parent–derivative relationships, quantities, locations, status, and movement histories accurate through timely updates, controlled access, and periodic reconciliation.

- Storage integrity and continuity: Manage storage organisation and capacity with laboratory and facilities colleagues.

- Incident resolution and corrective action: Escalate concerns, pause non-compliant activities, and hold samples where eligibility, documentation, or integrity is unresolved.

- Capability and culture: Build capability through coaching, knowledge sharing, and effective cover arrangements across the biobank and sample-management network.

Essential criteria:

- BSc in Biological Sciences, Biomedical Sciences, or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant experience.

- More than 5 years working with human biological samples in a research, biotechnology, biobank, or clinical laboratory setting, including leadership of sample governance and operations across the sample lifecycle.

- Demonstrated leadership, including setting direction, developing colleagues and capability, influencing senior stakeholders without direct authority, and resolving competing priorities.

- Experience working across a variety of quality systems, and able to interpret guidelines and apply basic principles in a research setting.

- Experience reviewing consent, ethics, and provenance documentation, interpreting sample-use restrictions, and assessing proposed use, reuse, and transfer in collaboration with scientific, partnerships, and legal colleagues.

Desirable criteria:

- Previous appointment as an HTA Designated Individual, or substantial experience as a Person Designated with responsibility for tissue governance, inspections, and compliance improvement.

- Familiarity with handling low-complexity clinical data and associated regulatory frameworks (GDPR).

- Experience in genomics, molecular biology, or high-throughput research, including support for histology, flow cytometry, or molecular workflows.

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## Skills

### Required
- LIMS
- ELN
- Human Tissue Act 2004
- HTA research licensing
- GDPR
- research ethics
- health and safety standards

### Nice to have
- genomics
- molecular biology
- high-throughput research
- histology
- flow cytometry
- molecular workflows
- cryogenic storage
- freezer monitoring
- sample integrity assessment

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