# Associate Scientist, Global Sample Management

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- **Id**: 4317559
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/takeda-pharmaceutical-associate-scientist-global-sample-management>
- **Role**: Science & Research
- **Role family**: Science & Research
- **Seniority**: junior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Cambridge, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-13T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-13
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-14T16:50:21Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 1
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 6469
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Prescription Drugs, Oncology Therapeutics, Neurology & CNS Therapeutics, Rare Disease Therapeutics

## Company

- **Id**: 5984
- **Name**: Takeda Pharmaceutical
- **Domain**: takeda.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/takeda>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 89
- **Open postings**: 79
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.392
- **Repost share**: 0.076
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 27
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T05:58:10Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 103500
- **Max**: 162690
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 162690

## Technologies

- **Cell Culture** — Optional: no
- **Flow Cytometry** — Optional: no
- **LIMS** — Optional: no
- **PCR** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 1

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: master
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-14T16:50:21Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 1
- **Expected fill days**: 27
- **Reasons**: conf:2, win:early, comp:junior,brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T19:00:43Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 162690
- **Is top pay**: yes

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