Lead Scientist
- Recruiter
- Covance
- Location
- Harrogate
- Salary
- Competitive
- Posted
- 07 Aug 2017
- Closes
- 04 Sep 2017
- Sectors
- Scientific & Pharmaceutical
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Lead Scientist, Harrogate
Covance, a leading global drug development services company, is looking for a Lead Scientist to join Bio-analytical team based in Harrogate. The successful candidate will receive a competitive salary.
At Covance, we help make the miracles of medicine a reality. We offer opportunities to work on diverse, challenging projects with bright, interesting colleagues while building a flexible and rewarding career. This is your chance to become part of a team that helps to bring miracle of medicine to market sooner.
As our Lead Scientist, you will be accountable for leading the scientific teams to ensure that Client requirements and deliverables are met. This involves discussion with the Client to design proposals, working with the Project management department, communicate with the QC section managers and oversight of scientific progress of projects to ensure the successful, initiation, planning, execution, monitoring and completion of projects.
The primary responsibilities will be to:
- Navigate the regulatory framework to ensure that the client programs are conducted to meet the defined milestones along the drug development pathway with scientific integrity.
- Write protocols and reports using the QC scientist approved data that fulfils the protocol design and all regulatory expectations.
- Communicate with internal and external project teams, departmental management and the client to ensure effective scientific progress throughout the life cycle of a project in partnership with the Project Management Organisation.
- communicate the scientific and regulatory framework of a project that builds a team to understand and delivers the drug development milestones.
- Identify and communicate scientific and regulatory developments to the molecule management team and the wider senior scientific group (Method Development and QC Scientists).
- You will report to a Senior Lead Scientist on a daily basis.
Our ideal Lead Scientist will have the below skills and experience:
- Be educated to a Bachelor/Master/PhD degree within life-sciences or equivalent.
- Excellent understanding of drug development.
- A working knowledge of a wide range of CMC analytical techniques (For example ELISA, cell culture, FACS, HPLC, protein extraction, SDS-PAGE, Western Blotting, Capillary Electrophoresis, Isoelectric Focussing, Biosimilairs and mass spectrometry)
- Working knowledge of statistics and its application to techniques Regulatory applications (validation, equivalence)
- The ability to get things done by influencing others (both internal and external).
- An up to date knowledge of regulatory guidelines and their application.
- Commercial awareness, interpersonal and negotiating skills.
- Learn and maintain knowledge of process excellence processes, tools and activities.
- Excellent organisation and communication skills
- Previous Experience from a similar role working with Large molecules would be highly beneficial.
In return for your hard work as our Lead Scientist, you will receive a competitive salary plus the opportunity to work within an experienced and highly skilled team, health cover and a contributory pension.
Covance’s ongoing success offers team members unsurpassed growth and career development opportunities.
There is no better time to join us!
So don’t delay, click ‘Apply’ today to become our Lead Scientist.
Covance is committed to diversity in the workplace and is an equal opportunity employer. Your confidentiality and privacy are important to us.