King's College London

About Us

Embedded within the Comprehensive Cancer Centre at King’s College London, PharosAI offers a unique cancer AI product development ecosystem for drug discovery and clinical applications, democratising access to data, AI assets, technologies, and capabilities. PharosAI unites large-scale multimodal cancer datasets with AI models through a highly secure, trusted, federated platform, offering state-of-the-art AI tooling for use by pharma/biotech/life-sciences, AI-pharma, and AI developers of clinical applications, in enterprises, growth companies, and research organisations. PharosAI will also provide a “lend me an expert” concierge service, training and education in AI for clinicians, and an end-to-end product development and deployment service, helping cancer pathology services to be more easily deployed within the NHS. This will be facilitated by a best-in-class patient involvement and governance model, and fair value sharing for data providers.

You will be based in the Innovation Hub, Guy’s Cancer Centre, Guy’s Hospital, within the King’s Health Partners Cancer Biobank. The Biobank has been supporting translational cancer research at a national level since the 1970’s and accrued a significant number of samples during that time, all of which have been acquired under documented procedures and linked to verified clinical data. The Biobank has a team of more than 15 full time staff, including Advanced Practitioners, Consent Co-Ordinator, Quality Manager and Specialist Technicians.

About The Role

We have a new and exciting opportunity for a Senior Technical Manager for PharosAI, with expertise in histology, molecular pathology and project management. We are seeking individuals who are dedicated to leading a high-quality tissue processing and slide digitisation service, which is critical to the success of PharosAI. 

Using proven leadership skills, the successful candidate will manage a team of technicians to request and prepare tissues for molecular pathology techniques, including spatial transcriptomics as well as preparing slides for digitisation. 

Reporting to the Head of Biobanking and working alongside the Technical Manager, you will be responsible for delivering a co-ordinated and timely tissue processing and digitisation service.

The post holder will need to plan and organise work schedules to ensure delivery times are met. You will line manage a team of technicians, encouraging scientific expertise, knowledge and professional development. 

You will have well developed communication skills, with ability to provide detailed written and oral reports to the PharosAI executive, whilst also able to convey clear information to the more junior members of staff.

The successful candidate will work closely with other members of PharosAI and Cancer Biobank. You may also be required to support staff and activities at the PharosAI partner institutions, including Queen Mary’s University of London and Bart’s Health.

The role may occasionally require working outside of core hours, including weekends and evenings, dependent upon surgery/clinic times, to meet deadlines or to attend PharosAI events. This is a full time (35 Hours per week), and you will be offered a fixed term contract until 31 March 2027.

About You

Candidates will be advised to review the document supplied in the advert to identify where these criteria will be assessed To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates to have the following skills and experience: 

Essential criteria

1. Professionally qualified with a relevant degree/ post graduate qualification, plus a broad management experience in similar or related role. 
2. Authoritative knowledge of Biobanking and histopathology processes and procedures. 
3. Project and people management skills that have been gained through previous experience 
4. Excellent communication skills, both orally and in writing, and interpersonal skills 
5. Experience in gathering data using a variety of methods, analysing and presenting outcomes 
6. Have a proactive and responsive approach to internal and external contacts to build relationships and create networks. 

Desirable criteria

1. Biobank management experience. 
2. Evidence of CPD 

Downloading a copy of our Job Description 

Full details of the role and the skills, knowledge and experience required can be found in the Job Description document, provided at the bottom of the next page after you click “Apply Now”. This document will provide information of what criteria will be assessed at each stage of the recruitment process. 

Further Information

We pride ourselves on being inclusive and welcoming. We embrace diversity and want everyone to feel that they belong and are connected to others in our community. We are committed to working with our staff and unions on these and other issues, to continue to support our people and to develop a diverse and inclusive culture at King's. We ask all candidates to submit a copy of their CV, and a supporting statement detailing how they meet the essential criteria listed in the advert. If we receive a strong range of candidates, we may use the desirable criteria to choose our final shortlist, so please include your evidence against these where possible. To find out how our managers will review your application, please take a look at our ‘How we Recruit’ pages.