Location: Boston, MA
Ideal Candidate: Flow Cytometry; Sales experience in immunology, hematology or flow cytometry related products.

Qualifications: A minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in a Biology or other scientific discipline.  A minimum of 2 years hands of laboratory experience.  A valid driver’s license.
Ability to travel a minimum of 50%

The Account Manager is responsible to maintain and establish growth of the current Academic, Biotech, and Clinical Market customer base. Primary responsibilities also include developing and creating new business opportunities through promoting the reagent portfolio, working strategically  with their Instrument Sales Specialist, Phama Business Development Manager, and Distribution Representatives.  The Account Manager will actively seek to convert competitive business in assigned territory leading to increased revenues for the company. The Account Manager is directly responsible for achieving their territory sales growth.  This position is located in the Boston, MA area.

Responsibilities: Develop Territorial Business Plan to achieve sales goals inclusive of influencing territorial luminaries via new products/applications positioning.  Develop and maintain adequate short/long term sales pipeline to consistently generate profitable revenue.  Achievement of revenues goals by  growing existing customer bases as well as conversions of competitive accounts.  Strategically work with their Regional Business Manager to build growth business plans around Strategic Accounts.  Ensure all Price Requests are renewed  as appropriate.  Building team relationships with other Company’s Biosciences Sales, Service, and Technical Support Associates to maximize sales revenues while promoting opportunities, harmony, and territorial management.  Develops and maintains one on one relationship  with key distributor sales reps within assigned areas.  Perform other related duties and  assignments as required.

Assets:  Life Science sales experience.  MBA a plus.  Flow Cytometry experience.  Familiar with Life Science Research, clinical Immunology, Hematology and/or Flow Cytometry.  Working knowledge of automated biomedical instrumentation and computer technology.  Effective meeting, training, and presentation skills.  Experience in managing both internal and external budgets and resources, conducting pre-call planning, and ability to prioritize and segment accounts.  Effective interpersonal skills. Effective written and oral communications skills.  Effective organization and planning  skills.  Effective selling and negotiation skills.  Effective decision making/problem solving skills. Effective computer skills, i.e., Lotus Notes, Excel, Word,  etc

Please send information to:  resumes@acquis.com or call 732-280-8425. Thank You!

Location:  Boston, MA

Ideal Candidate:

5+ to 7 years of experience
Management Experience Required – No
Minimum Education – Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science of Equivalent

Reports to:  VP of Engineering

Purpose:

This position is the member of the Development team responsible for working closely with the software development team in designing, configuring and documenting the high-availability databases to ensure scalable and high performance of our company’s hosted clinical applications.

Evaluates and recommends available DBMS products after matching user requirements with system capabilities.  Develops and formulates standards, procedures, and conventions for database use.  As part of the design and development of the clinical applications, guide and review file organization, indexing methods and security procedures.  Requires demonstrated expertise in the use of database management systems, and related products from vendors such as Oracle, SAP, SAS, and IBM. 

Responsibilities:

-Work as part of the Development team providing guidance and direction in the architecture and development of the databases

-Review query logic and configurations for optimization and performance

-Analyze, design/enhance, test and document database structures and procedures

-Establish best practices for SQL database development including naming conventions and database structure layout

-Provide database support and trouble-shoot any issues related to Oracle e-Business Suite during the testing phase

-Provide technical support and guidance to other staff in the department in the areas of programming techniques, structural methods, testing procedures, business processes and document preparation

Requirements

-BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent

-5+ years of Oracle application development

-Extensive experience with all aspects of Oracle Applications 11i in a Linux environment

-Strong in depth experience in database performance and SQL tuning.

-Must be very knowledgeable and experienced in underlying Oracle applications database architecture

-Strong interpersonal and communication skills

-Willing to participate as a member of a team-based environment

-Must be able to communicate clearly and effectively, both verbally and in writing

-Must be a motivated self-starter, able to work successfully with little or no supervision

Chemicals

Engineering

Location:  Cambridge, MA

The Ideal Candidate:

7+ tp 10 years of experience

Minimum Education – Bachelor’s Degree

Willingness to Travel – Occasionally

Working in theMicrocapsule Development Team, the engineer is expected to fulfill the following requirements:

Responsibilities:

- Design, develop, and optimize chemical processes for the commercial production of our surface treated pigments, microcapsules, dispersions, and adhesives
- Design, evaluate, source, install, and qualify new process equipment for the scale up of lab discovered materials and processes
- Deliver capable and reliable processes to manufacturing team within capacity, budget, and timeline constraints
- Lead efforts to qualify chemical processes of external suppliers, as necessary
- Support existing production operations, as needed

Qualifications:

- BS or MS in Chemical Engineering
- 7 – 10 years of relevant industrial development experience
- Experience scaling up reactor design, especially where mixing, temperature control, and material addition are critical
- Hands-on, working knowledge of PLC batch control systems
- Knowledge of solvent and/or polyurethane based polymerizations is desirable
- Knowledge of pigment dispersion mixing, milling, filtering techniques is desirable
- Working knowledge of Six Sigma techniques, including FMEA, experimental design, and statistical analysis
- Ability to function effectively as a member of cross-functional, cross-disciplinary teams, and inter-corporate teams
- Demonstrated ability to provide innovative solutions to complex problems
- Hands-on attitude and desire to work a lab/pilot plant environment
- Effective oral and written communication skills

Location: Boston, MA

Ideal Candidate:
5+ to 7 years of experience
Management Experience Required – No
Minimum Education – Bachelor’s Degree

Willingness to Travel – Occasionally

The company is looking for a Clinical Quality Assurance Manager to perform and manage internal, client and vendor audits; write, edit and manage Quality System documentation; provide training to internal staff; manage the CAPA process; develop and report on quality metrics; and provide input on industry best practices.

Specific Responsibilities:

-Develop and maintain quality management system documentation, including documents specific to regulatory and compliance processes and procedures
-Oversee internal training, including regulatory and compliance training of study personnel
-Perform audits of internal processes and procedures to ensure staff compliance
-Perform quality audits of external vendors and partners to evaluate prospective groups and review ongoing work under contract
-Perform audits of project procedures, training, documentation and records
-Develop and implement quality programs including training personnel to ensure compliance with practices and procedures in support of company- wide quality programs such as ISO certification
-Ensure compliance of procedures with applicable regulations
-Manage the CAPA process to address findings, issues and non-compliances from both internal and client audits, working with other groups as applicable
-Host client audits of our company, including presentation of our company’s Quality Management System and responding to questions
-Deliver trainings as required on QMS processes and procedures
-Maintain internal training records and ensure timely compliance with company and job specific training requirements
-Develop, maintain and report on quality metrics related to compliance, training effectiveness and resolution of issues including CAPAs and audit findings
-Provide in-house guidance on the application of national, regional and local laws and regulations (e.g., privacy, data protection, ethics) to project-specific requirements and ensuring compliance

Qualifications:
-Minimum of 4+ years of experience in the Quality field within the life sciences industry
-Knowledge of relevant healthcare regulatory environment standards and regulations, for example GCP, FDA, ICH, other organizations
-Experience working in a structured environment
-Experience performing process and documentation audits
-Experience developing process documentation
-Proven ability to address and resolve non-compliances
-Ability to develop training programs and successfully train personnel
-Ability to prioritize and schedule time for various activities such as audits considering business needs
-Ability to organize and track documentation and records
-Ability to understand and interpret national, regional and local regulations related to our company’s work
-Bachelor’s degree, preferred in scientific or health-related discipline

Location: Eastern Massachusetts

7+ to 10 years of experience
Management Experience Required – No
Minimum Education – Bachelor’s Degree

Job Function Summary:

Translates customer needs into software technical requirements supporting product research, design, life cycle management, and/or product and systems development/ integration. Applies knowledge of multiple specialized and/or interdisciplinary technical areas, project management, and systems design and integration needs. Using current programming language and technologies, creates software components and applications to support medical device product development. Analyzes, designs, documents, programs, and debugs software programs; modifies software enhancements of existing computer programs which control the real time operation of the medical device using embedded software applications. May be responsible for the development of device drivers, application control, or user interfaces, and may design and develop algorithms for device diagnostics, communications, interactive and automated applications and/or test programs.

Key Characteristics:
- Demonstrates deep/advanced knowledge of specialized discipline and methods, and applicability to specialized product needs to support customer, operational policies and processes, and product use to translate needs into feasible technical design requirements and recommendations. Interfaces with customers, suppliers, application users, and other technical and support personnel as necessary.
- Independently researches issues outside technical capability and selects most efficient methods/techniques to achieve objectives. Applies appropriate standards, processes, policies, procedures, practices and tools throughout the product/system development lifecycle, including Standard Operating Procedures (SOP’s), and applicable medical device development protocols under FDA Quality Systems Regulations, CE Marking, and ISO Quality Systems.
- Learns basic Patent policies, procedures, and business issues and becomes familiar with the competitive “Patent Landscape” as related to assigned work.
- Performs a variety of assignments reflecting proficiency in a broad range of complex topics; balances constraints and opportunities of 1-2 adjacent technical disciplines with primary area of specialization.
- May assist with systems architecture development at the sub-system level. Works on high impact assignments where speed, quality, and efficiency significantly impacts results.
- Performs large or complex portions of projects where responsibility includes definition, completion, technical quality, and securing consistency across assigned areas. May independently lead small technical support projects or coordinate portions of larger projects. Contributes to project strategy and approach to meet target goals and milestones, evaluates resource allocation needs, and monitors project risks to determine best mitigation path.
- Independently solves a wide range of complex and diverse problems and evaluates short term impact of recommendations.
- Leads design reviews at the sub-system level.
- Provides technical leadership, trains, mentors, and takes initiative to assist junior staff and others. Troubleshoots complex problems, and engages others in problem solving strategies to obtain practical and effective solutions to complex issues. Evaluates applicability and impact of technical methods and solutions referred by junior staff.
- Analyzes experimental data, develops technical conclusions, and evaluates potential applicability of recommendations. Independently sets technical priorities for complex matters, when difficult compromises must be made (i.e. acts with or guides others toward the proper balance of effort vs. timeliness, and technical improvements and innovation with practical business constraints).
- Develops complex test protocols; reviews, and rejects or approves test protocols developed by others, documents/reports findings, and provides corrective guidance.
- Coordinates work primarily across project team(s), related groups, or within the department. Communicates proactively and effectively at all levels. Expands understanding and employs sensitivity in communications with culturally diverse audiences.
- Provides frequent written and oral presentations, status reports, and updates,, adapting and developing appropriate formats, presentations and content for a variety of audiences. Assists others with presentations, as requested.

Education and Experience Requirements:
- BS in Computer Science, Software Engineering, BSEE or equivalent combination of Training & Experience; & 5+ years related experience or MSE & 2+ years experience or PhD & 0-3 years related experience; real time operating systems is desirable.
- C/C++ training or experience is required.
- Intermediate to advanced level mastery of both business/technical applications.
- Experience with medical device development under FDA Quality Systems Regulations, CE Marking, and ISO Quality Systems desirable.
- Good oral, written, and technical writing skills are required.

If interested, please submit your resume to resumes@acquis.com.  Thank you!