Agilent Technologies
Director Reagent Research and Development
US-CA-Pacheco-Berry Drive · Director · Full-time
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About the role
- This role guides a multidisciplinary R&D organization, ensures projects meet quality, regulatory, budget, and timeline expectations, and advances reliable reagent products from concept through transfer to manufacturing and commercialization.
Responsibilities
- Lead planning, prioritization, resourcing, and delivery across multiple concurrent reagent development programs.
- Ensure development work follows applicable IVD and IVDR design-control expectations, including risk management, verification and validation, traceability, and audit-ready documentation.
- Review and approve experimental plans, data packages, technical reports, design outputs, and project decisions.
- Guide transfer of reagent designs into manufacturing and support commercialization, audits, inspections, and post-development technical needs.
- Own departmental budgets, resource allocation, schedules, risk identification, and mitigation planning.
- Lead, coach, and develop an organization of approximately 25 to 30 employees, including four direct-report managers and the Histology Laboratory Manager.
- Identify and implement technologies, automation, and process improvements that strengthen scientific rigor, throughput, and product quality.
- Demonstrated people leadership in a scientific or laboratory organization, including experience leading managers and developing technical teams.
- Working knowledge of regulated product development and design controls in an IVD or similarly regulated environment.
- Ability to manage a portfolio of technical projects, balancing priorities, timelines, budgets, resources, risks, and documentation requirements.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in chemistry, biochemistry, biology, biomedical science, or a related scientific field.
- Scientific expertise sufficient to direct IHC reagent development, including antibody-based technologies, detection chemistry, cancer diagnostics, and laboratory automation.
- no laboratory certification is required for this role.
- Practical experience applying Agile methods to scientific, product-development, or technical workflows.
Nice to have
- Master's degree or doctorate in a relevant scientific discipline.
- Deep knowledge of IVDR requirements and audit or inspection readiness.
- Experience transferring reagent products from R&D into manufacturing and commercialization.
- Experience implementing 5S, laboratory automation, or other operational-excellence practices.
- Additional Details
- This job has a full time weekly schedule.
- Applications for this job will be accepted until at least September 11, 2026 or until the job is no longer posted.
- Agilent Technologies, Inc. is an Equal Employment Opportunity and merit-based employer that values individuals of all backgrounds at all levels.
Compensation
- The full-time equivalent pay range for this position is $210,528.00 - $328,950.00/yr plus eligibility for bonus, stock and benefits.
Company info
- If you have a disability and need assistance with any part of the application or interview process or have questions about workplace accessibility, please email job_posting@agilent.com or contact +1-262-754-5030.
- Partner with Quality, Regulatory, Operations, Product Management, Instrument R&D, manufacturing, customers, and other internal and external stakeholders.
- Strong stakeholder-management and communication skills, including the ability to work effectively with customers and senior leaders..
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