Manager/Senior Manager, Biomarker & Biospecimen Operations

Location: Remote Salary: $161-$175k Why Work With Us? At Candel, our people drive our success. We value diversity, collaboration, and bold thinking in a supportive, mission-driven environment. Like a team, we show up for each other and stay focused on making a difference for patients and families. Our leadership is transparent and empowering, and our culture is built on trust, flexibility, and accountability, encouraging ownership and innovation every day. Our Science: Advancing Cancer Immunotherapies Candel is a clinical-stage biopharma company developing off-the-shelf, multimodal immunotherapies that stimulate personalized, systemic anti-tumor responses. Our platforms use genetically modified adenovirus and HSV constructs. With positive Phase 3 results for our lead candidate, it’s an exciting time to join us and help bring transformative cancer treatments to patients. Learn more: Position Summary Candel Therapeutics is seeking a Manager/Senior Manager, Biomarker & Biospecimen Operations to oversee biospecimen collection, tracking, shipment, reconciliation, vendor management, and biomarker logistics across clinical development programs. This role will partner closely with Translational Medicine, Clinical Operations, Data Management, Clinical Development, Regulatory Affairs, Statistics, and external vendors to ensure high-quality, compliant, and inspection-ready biospecimen operations throughout the clinical trial lifecycle. Key Responsibilities Serve as the operational lead and maintain inventories or tracking systems for biospecimen collection, processing, shipment, inventory management, reconciliation, storage, testing, and disposition across clinical studies. Develop and maintain study-specific biospecimen management plans, laboratory manuals, collection schedules, handling instructions, collection worksheets, site training materials, and supporting operational documentation. Collaborate closely with Clinical Operations to drive biospecimen collection activities