Be part of the work that enables life-changing cancer diagnoses, delivered with precision and purpose
Centre for Oncopathology (COP) is a specialist oncopathology laboratory and a unit of Tata Cancer Care Foundation.
We work at the intersection of clinical precision, advanced diagnostics, and academic rigour to enable accurate, timely, and meaningful cancer pathology insights.
What You Gain Working with Us
Purpose-Driven Work
What we do influences real treatment decisions. Every report, every quality check, and every workflow improvement contributes to better patient outcomes.
Specialist Environment
COP is focused on cancer diagnostics, offering exposure to complex cases, subspecialty learning, and advanced modalities that require high clinical and technical expertise.
Learning-Led Culture
We foster continuous learning through structured training, case discussions, mentorship, and knowledge sharing—helping professionals build depth, confidence, and clinical judgement.
Collaborative Teams
Our work is cross-functional. Clinicians, scientists, technologists, quality teams, and operations collaborate with shared accountability and respect for each other’s expertise.
Quality-First Mindset
We operate with rigour. From documentation and traceability to reporting discipline, quality is embedded in how we think and work, not added as a checklist.
Trust and Integrity
As part of Tata Cancer Care Foundation, COP is anchored in ethics and credibility, with a long-term commitment to strengthening cancer care in India.
Current Opportunities
Browse opportunities across clinical, diagnostic, quality, operations, and support functions.
Molecular Lab Manager
Experience: Minimum 8 -10 years of experience in molecular techniques or genetic laboratory services (including 3 years of hands-on experience in NGS).
Location: Mumbai - Work from hospital/clinic
About the Role
Applications are invited for the position of Molecular Lab manager at Centre for Oncopathology, Mahim Mumbai (a Unit of Tata Cancer Care Foundation).
Position: Senior Technologist -Lab Manager
Number of Posts: 1
Eligibility
Qualification: M.Sc./M. Tech/PhD in Medical or Human Genetics/ Biotechnology/ Life Sciences/ Applied Biology
Experience: Minimum 8 -10 years of experience in molecular techniques or genetic laboratory services (including 3 years of hands-on experience in NGS).
Required expertise includes Next Generation Sequencing library preparation, sequencing workflows, assay standardization, QC procedures, data quality assurance, reagent and inventory management, laboratory operations and coordination.
Experienced professionals with strong scientific and managerial skills are encouraged to apply.
Please share your update cv with your current ctc and notice period details to Muriel Anchan manchan@tatacancercare.org
Job Summary/ Responsibilities
Broad requirements
- Overall smooth functioning of the lab operations.
Detailed JD:
Primary Responsibilities:
- As Lab Manager of Molecular Oncology, preparing and timely review of SOPs; assisting QA in review of QM, QSPs, PSC Manual etc as required.
- Ensuring compliance to ISO 15189:2012 standards & QMS by all staff at all times.
- Monitoring, updating and reviewing of quality indicators for quality improvement.
- Analysis of Quality Indicators
- Monthly indent and maintaining stock.
- As Lab Manager, daily analytical work including Quality control, troubleshooting, reporting of results.
- Checking of samples & determining the input quantity to be taken for processing.
- Supervising & Troubleshooting DNA extraction from paraffin embedded tissue & their spectrophotometric quantification, input in PCR & other downstream processing.
- Supervising & Troubleshooting Preparation of agarose gel & PAGE gel
- Supervising & Troubleshooting Reagent Preparation
- Supervising, setting up & Troubleshooting PCRs, reverse transcription assays, real time assays, sanger sequencing assays, various lab techniques & assays. Analysis of all the assays.
- Setting up, Troubleshooting including QC, Library preparation of NGS assays (DNA and RNA Sequencing). Analysis of NGS assays.
- Archival of nucleic acids.
- Participation in PT program, reviewing their results, maintaining their records & executing the corrective and preventive actions required.
- Reviewing Instrument logs & checking their performance.
Secondary Responsibilities:
- Maintaining and updating of documents.
- Smooth overall functioning of laboratory on a day-to-day basis.
- Training of new staff on technical operations, techniques and equipments.
- Overall supervision of Molecular Oncology & lab administrative work.
- Involvement in negotiating rates/rate contracts for new equipments, AMC, CMC & reagents.
- Reviewing literature to start new tests.
- Standardization & Validation of all assays & technologies offered by the Molecular lab.
- Reviewing, understanding & implementing new techniques in the lab.
- Liaising with different technical support teams, vendors & companies to start new procedure using the launched technology.
- Analysing & determining if the technology/application is relevant to our requirement with respect to sample type, technology restrictions, compatibility issues, its ability to integrate with &/ support the existing technologies, equipments & assays existing in the lab.
- Estimating if it should be procured as also the usefulness (multiplicativity) of the procurement.
Years of Laboratory Excellence
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