Global Applications Lead

Job Description

Job Description

Nova Biomedical: One Global Brand. One Vision. Together under one name.

Advanced Instruments and Nova Biomedical are now united under one brand, Nova Biomedical , marking a major milestone in our journey to deliver greater value to our customers. By combining our strengths, we're accelerating innovation, supporting critical workflows, and delivering world-class service across the biopharmaceutical and clinical markets.

Job Summary:

The Global Applications Lead will drive the global applications strategy for the bioprocessing portfolio, ensuring standardized frameworks, consistent positioning, and alignment across field teams while identifying high-value use cases throughout the customer lifecycle. This role serves as a senior scientific leader, supporting strategic customers, complex evaluations, and key opinion leader engagement, while partnering cross-functionally with Product Management and commercial teams to translate workflows into differentiated value propositions and enable customer-ready messaging. Additionally, the Global Applications Lead will lead scientific content and thought leadership efforts and oversee the Waltham applications lab, ensuring operational excellence and hands-on support for customer and internal initiatives.

Responsibilities:

• Define and execute the global applications strategy and roadmap across the Bio portfolio.
• Establish and standardize application frameworks, workflows, and positioning to ensure global consistency for the field application teams.
• Identify and prioritize high-value bioprocessing use cases across the customer lifecycle.
• Serve as the senior scientific expert for bioprocessing workflows and analytical applications.
• Support strategic customers, complex evaluations, and application-driven escalations.
• Engage with key opinion leaders (KOLs) and strategic accounts to inform applications strategy and evidence generation.
• Provide structured applications input into product strategy, roadmap planning, and investment decisions.
• Partner with Product Management to translate customer workflows into differentiated value propositions.
• Enable commercial teams with customer-ready application messaging and scientific differentiation.
• Lead development of global scientific and application content, including application notes, white papers, posters, webinars, and conference presentations.
• Identification of high-value emerging use-cases throughout the bioprocessing value chain for our core technologies.
• Represent the company as a scientific thought leader at industry conferences and scientific forums.
• Own and operate the Waltham applications lab, ensuring it is organized, maintained, and fully functional.
• Perform hands-on experimental work as needed to support customer engagements, internal projects, and commercial initiatives with support from R&D.
• Manage lab inventory, supplies, and equipment to ensure readiness and continuity of operations.
• Coordinate and prioritize lab activities for work generated internally and externally.

Experience Requirements:

• Minimum 8 years of experience in bioprocessing with hands on bioprocessing experience, in mAb and if possible emerging target classes such as CGT, mRNA etc.
• Demonstrated leadership in scientific, applications, or technical roles.
• Proven ability to present scientific data to technical and executive audiences.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration and project leadership capabilities.
• PhD in Life Sciences or related discipline strongly preferred.
• MS with significant industry experience considered.

Physical Requirements and Working Conditions:

• Ability to work at a computer for extended periods.
• Ability to lift and carry up to [25–50] pounds as required
• Ability to communicate effectively via phone, video, and written communication.
• Ability to occasionally move about the office to access meetings or resources.

Why Work for Nova Biomedical

• Flexible Medical, Dental, & Vision Coverage
• Competitive 401k company match
• Bonus Program, Generous PTO and paid holidays
• Generous Tuition reimbursement
• Hybrid and flexible work arrangements
• Professional development, engagement and events
• Company marketplace for lunch and snacks in our Norwood, MA, Billerica, MA and Westbrook, ME offices
• Company subsidized cafeteria in our Waltham, MA office

Work Location: Hybrid work schedule on-site in Waltham

Targeted Salary Range: $160,000-$200,000/yr

Nova Biomedical believes in transparency and integrity throughout all we do, including compensation. The provided salary range for this role represents the expected base salary or hourly rate for this opening. Actual compensation will be commensurate with the candidate’s experience and may vary based on individual factors such as location, skills, and education.

At Nova Biomedical, we’re not just building instruments, we’re powering breakthroughs that improve lives. Our smart, science-driven solutions are trusted in over 100 countries to speed drug development and enhance patient care.

Our integration brings together more than 70 years of scientific excellence with Nova’s cutting-edge innovation, forming a powerhouse of precision, purpose, and possibility. With FDA-registered, ISO-certified manufacturing, more than 125 FDA approvals, and industry-trusted diagnostics, we’re setting new standards in quality and reliability. Nova Biomedical is proud to be a global leader in osmolality testing and biotechnology and in vitro diagnostic (IVD) instrumentation, dedicated to advancing patient care and scientific discovery with a legacy that continues to shape the future of life sciences.

With headquarters in Norwood and Waltham, Massachusetts, and a global team of nearly 2,000 employees, we’re building a collaborative, empowered culture grounded in shared values: Customer Centricity, Ingenuity, Ownership & Accountability, Collaboration, and Integrity.

Working at Nova Biomedical means joining a mission-driven organization where your contributions matter. Whether you're in engineering, science, manufacturing, or support, you’ll be part of a team that values innovation, invests in your growth, and is committed to making a real-world impact on global health.

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EEO Statement:

Nova Biomedical takes pride in being an equal opportunity employer committed to hiring a diverse and inclusive workforce. As a part of our commitment to a diverse and inclusive workforce, Nova Biomedical will continue to take steps to assure that recruitment, hiring, assignment, promotion, compensation, and all other personnel decisions are made and administered without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, age, mental or physical disability, genetic information or any other protected class.

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