What can we offer you?
Apart from job satisfaction, we can offer you:
YOURSELF
- 25 days' holiday (with the option to buy more)
HEALTH
- Private Healthcare
- Optional dental insurance, health assessments and health cash plans
- Cycle to Work scheme
WEALTH
- Company Pension Scheme, matching contributions up to 5% of salary
- Life assurance
- Annual staff bonus scheme
- Season ticket loans
As Associate Director, Scientific and Medical Services you will oversee pre-clinical discovery research programs as a Scientific Lead adding technical oversight as a subject matter expert. You will provide significant input and support for the commercial teams to drive development and growth. As subject matter expert globally, you will drive site and global technical initiatives and contribute to some global department-level strategic decisions.
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Key responsibilities:
- Responsible for scientific output and program leadership at Scientific Lead level; accountable for managing technical, process, or sponsor-driven escalations from study team
- Drive study design, project planning, and quote generation in conjunction with customers and our Commercial Office
- Support and help drive key account management efforts in collaboration with our Commercial Office
- Author and/or review technical documents, including study design quotes, study protocols, final reports, presentations, abstracts/manuscripts/white papers, etc.
- Acquire and maintain deep and/or broad knowledge of relevant diseases, their basic biology, and how the specific study fits within that field
- Nurture a collaborative internal team environment
- Innovate and drive scientific and process strategy for local preclinical site and/or global sites in partnership with DPS Leadership Team
- Support and educate teammates in your key areas of scientific expertise
- Demonstrate a high standard of attention to detail and instill it in others
Knowledge and experience:
- Advanced domain knowledge in multiple technical area related to imaging, biomarker research, or pharmacology (e.g. preclinical PET, SPECT, CT, MRI, optical imaging; efficacy or tolerability studies; biodistribution or pharmacokinetic studies)
- Expert ability to work effectively and efficiently in a team environment and interact professionally with collaborators, customers, and/or subcontractors
- Hands-on experience acquiring pre-clinical imaging data, familiarity with data acquisition, analysis techniques, quality control, and experience in interpretation and presentation of such data
- Hands-on experience developing preclinical oncology models
- Deep and/or broad experience applying imaging to the study of disease in one or more therapeutic areas, ideally including oncology or oncopharmacology.
- Experience with relevant in vitro/ex vivo methodologies including radioligand binding, autoradiography, and immunohistochemistry
- Expertise in small molecule or biologics radiochemistry
- Expertise in the design, analysis, and interpretation of pharmacology and/or efficacy studies
Skills:
- Excellent people leadership skills in a global managed matrix environment
- Exceptional time and project management skills
- Ability to demonstrate adaptability, a logical approach to problem-solving, and a commitment to continual learning
- Excellent written and verbal communications skills
- Strong presentation skills; able to succinctly, clearly, and compellingly present complex and/or nuanced scientific results and service capabilities to colleagues internally and externally
Education:
- Scientific/technical PhD or MSc in a relevant field (e.g., Oncopharmacology, Biology, Biochemistry, Pharmacology, Toxicology, Engineering) with extensive industry experience
- English: Fluent