Senior Manager, Lab Planning & Design

Role Summary

The Senior Manager, Lab Planning & Design leads an internal workplace planning team that partners with internal stakeholders and capital project teams to deliver well designed labs that enable Regeneron’s science & research expansion plans. This role will be responsible for developing and recommending lab planning scenarios, designs, and strategies to meet both short-term and long-term business objectives and future growth.

Responsibilities

• Working with customers (users), collaborators (leaders), and partners (Real Estate & Facilities Management, Research Operations) to understand user requirements and develop lab designs that optimize R&D processes, space efficiencies, and space/real estate strategy, as well as ensuring compliance with building code and Regeneron standards
• Developing and maintaining lab design standards, including furniture, finishes, and room data sheets
• Sustaining lab planning metrics and cost center allocations within Regeneron's space management and forecasting system (TRIRIGA)
• Developing lab planning scenarios, including block and stack plans and restack options, in response to growth and adjacency needs
• Partnering with customers to develop or validate program requirements
• Participating in long-term strategic space, real estate, and capital planning, analyzing headcount and utilization data to forecast space needs and drive real estate decisions
• Reviewing and aligning capital projects from programming through commissioning, including user engagement, programming and planning workshops, design documentation, casework and interior specification, and construction administration related to labs
• Evaluating requests for additional space in partnership with Research Operations
• Collaborating with Real Estate & Facilities Management colleagues, to evaluate space planning and developing plans for capital lab equipment

People & Team Management

• Leading an engaged team that effectively delivers value by optimizing process, resources, and cost
• Plans appropriate staffing levels, working with HR to recruit, interview, select, and hire employees
• Provides oversight and direction to employees in accordance with the organization‚Äôs policies and procedures
• Provides effective performance management, coaching, and mentoring, as well as opportunities for development, empowering employees to take responsibility for their performance and career
• Monitors performance and manages team workload; analyzes team processes and implements improvements to maximize efficiency; aligns team services with those provided with other groups
• Participates in the Workplace Strategy & Planning leadership team

Qualifications

• Lab planning and design principles, as well as the ability to think creatively and critically beyond traditional principles
• Thorough knowledge of lab equipment, finishes, and furniture
• Understanding of applicable building code
• Excellent analytical skills; ability to organize, analyze and interpret data; ability to create compelling narratives using data
• Ability to move between detailed data sets and high-level strategic conversations
• Excellent written, graphic, and verbal communication skills; ability to tactfully deliver difficult messages and tailor information to the audience
• Excellent collaborator management, change management, and customer service skills; ability to build productive partnerships at all levels
• Ability to focus on detail
• Good process improvement skills
• Technical Proficiency ‚Äì MS Office with advanced skills in Excel and PowerPoint; AutoCAD/Building Information Modeling/Revit, CAFM/IWMS or other space management/utilization software; knowledge of TRIRIGA a plus
• Must be able to thrive in an ambiguous, constantly changing environment

Education

• Bachelor‚Äôs degree required (advanced degrees in Architecture or related preferred)

Experience

• 7-10 years experience directly related to delivery of lab planning services required, preferably as an owner‚Äôs representative in the pharmaceutical or bio-pharmaceutical industry
• 7+ years experience managing people and high-performing teams