Senior Scientist - Preclinical Data Management

Your new company
You'll be joining a VC backed biotech that has already raised tens of millions of pounds of funding and is using its novel platform technology to develop innovative medicines for areas of unmet need, allowing you to have a significant impact on patients.
The company has a high-performing and innovative atmosphere, driven by the highly experienced leadership team which has an excellent track record of developing therapeutics.
They are going into their next phase of growth and are looking to further build up their R&D teams within chemistry and biology with the addition of a data focused position to support the chemistry team's experimental work.
This is a full-time position, with hybrid working based out of their site in London.

Your new role
This is a permanent position, sitting in the Discovery Chemistry team, and working closely with a variety of internal colleagues and external stakeholders and vendors.
The role requires some time on site and is purely focused on data management, workflows, analysis and system optimisation to support R&D / drug discovery efforts.
Major responsibilities will include a mix of (but aren't limited to):

• Acting as a technical lead on database projects;
• Customising / developing new database workflows, data templates and templates for data visualisation
• Identify requirements from internal stakeholders and help to develop new / improve existing functionality, eg for how data is represented to end users
• Ensure the company's compound library is effectively tracked across multiple discovery & drug development research programmes
• Identify and implement SOPs and protocols for 'best practice' when it comes to data handling and management
• Develop new tools and templates, along with data visualisation approaches
• Work with internal IT teams and external partners & vendors to ensure experimental data comes in within a usable / standardised format
• Integrate tools and other add-ons to the data platform to optimise data analysis and visualisation, eg using things like Spotfire for dashboards or Vortex

What you'll need to succeed
As well as strong communication skills for dealing with internal collaborators and stakeholders, you should have:

• A BSc / MSc / PhD (or equivalent experience) in computer science or a life sciences discipline such as chemistry, biology, biochemistry, bioinformatics, or similar
• Expertise within data management, compound management or similar within a lab/R&D environment
• Strong hands-on knowledge and experience of working with Dotmatics products is essential, preferably within a drug discovery or similar research environment
• Programming skills in SQL (with scripting ability in other languages such as Bash or python an advantage)
• Good knowledge of data analysis and visualisation approaches / tools, with experience of software like Spotfire, PowerBI, Vortex or similar an advantage
• The ability to work with external CROs or other research partners

What you'll get in return
You'll get the chance to make a significant impact on the company's drug discovery and development projects, taking on project leadership for a number of different aspects within data management as they develop the next generation of medicines.
The company are relatively open on salary bands depending on the skills of the person coming in and the benefits package associated with the role is quite generous.

What you need to do now
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