Current Opportunities

This is a senior and significant opportunity with a business positioned at the forefront of the exciting precision medicine industry. The business is growing fast, attracting interest from customers and investors alike. Working on a global basis but with a focus on the buoyant US market. The role takes responsibility for driving the growth of contracts with new partnering customers and managing relationships from identification through delivery and beyond. The role will also take responsibility for the marketing effort in a very clearly identified potential customer group.

There is a leadership responsibility in this role with staff in place however an absolute involvement in the day to day engagement and management of customers is central to this role as is setting plans, KPI’s, standard and terms of engagement.

Working closely with the CEO, the important deliverables will be central to the ongoing and continued success and growth of this business. Consequently, the opportunity for personal growth is substantial and probably counter-intuitively this is a business that values work life balance making this a rare opportunity.

Skills and Competencies

• Strongly driven by results and objectives as measured by KPI’s
• A track record of success in international business development in a closely related, a precision medicine / cell and gene therapy business.
• Scientifically and technically strong enough to conduct gap analysis with customers  
• Leadership and standard setting
• Driving marketing effort 

An exciting and challenging opportunity has arisen for a Manufacturing Manager within a leading Contract Development and GMP Manufacturing Organisation in the ever-evolving field of Biologics and Regenerative Medicine.

As a commercially structured operation, the company displays considerable ambition in both leading the market and in building an effective physical model to meet the demand that is envisaged. This Edinburgh-based company operates at the leading edge of therapeutic discovery providing services for companies involved in European and US clinical trials.

This is a unique opportunity for an experienced Manufacturing Manager to manage the contract manufacturing operation, be a key member of the senior management team and report directly to the CEO.

This is a role for an effective leader to lead, motivate and develop the team of GMP Production Scientists in the field of Regenerative Medicine. My client aim is to work to the highest standards of quality and regulatory compliance and are looking for an individual who shares in these values. The individual must have a sound scientific knowledge of cell manufacturing and the ability to expand the Manufacturing operation and take the department to the next level on the new, state of the art facility.

The company is embarking upon an exciting journey of growth and is looking to fully support and develop its employees to ensure future career progression.

Specific Responsibilities:

• To provide ongoing practical training and advice to staff particularly in cell biology and sterile manufacturing.
• To create, review and approve quality documents such as SOPs, BRs, incident reports, change controls and risk assessments within agreed time scales.
• To ensure that the Manufacturing clean rooms and equipment are maintained, serviced and validated to a GMP standard.
• To ensure the standards of housekeeping within the facility are maintained to a high standard.
• To create, review and approve technology transfer documentation and review processes for GMP manufacture both scientifically and for GMP compliance.
• To work closely with customers to successfully transfer customer manufacturing processes
• Develop and motivate the team to ensure they deliver on goals and achieve appropriate standards of work.
• To ensure that all Manufacturing staff are fully trained for their responsibilities and review and sign off (where appropriate) their personal training records.

Desired Skills and Experience

The successful candidate will have:

• A PhD or honours degree in a relevant life science or equivalent qualification
• Experience of sterile manufacturing particularly within a GMP clean rooms operating at a Grade B level with Grade A cabinets
• A sound working knowledge of GMP and the ability to lead others to maintain and uphold GMP standards across all manufacturing activities
• A proven track record of successfully managing a team in a GMP environment.
• Experience with technology transfer and process development would also be desirable.
• Experience with Quality Management Software
• Experience in the successful management in GMP Production

My retained client is a unique healthcare analytics and strategy consultancy organisation based in the Scottish borders. They are a commercialisation catalyst, fostering the drug innovation process and providing drug commercialisation assessment and strategic planning services to healthcare organisations around the world. A core element of the organisations work includes providing advice and validation relating to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPPA).

Culturally, the business has an extensive pool of expertise and is an excellent place to develop your career. The business offers a fantastic working environment combined with a flexible approach and supportive, knowledgeable team.

This role would equally suit a recent PhD or Masters graduate in a qualatative field, looking to take their first steps out of academia into the world of Data Science, or an individual with some experience in industry looking to take their next career step.

Overview of Role

The organisation works closely with healthcare data. In particular, advising clients working with Protected Health Information (PHI) on the risks associated with patient identification and compliance to HIPAA. Ensuring patient privacy is critical when working with PHI. A key element to ensuring that there is a very small risk of unauthorised identity or information disclosure, is through a range of statistical analyses on the underlying datasets(s) and analysis of data ingestion and processing methods. Due to an increasing workload, a Data Scientist is now required.

Requirements

As a Data Scientist, your main responsibilities will be to process and analyse large health-related datasets, and contribute to the subsequent preparation of associated reports.

You will have:

• Expertise in the manipulation, integration, processing and interrogation of large datasets.
• A practical understanding of how algorithms are designed, optimised and applied at scale.
• Expertise in at least one open-source data analysis software package (e.g., R, Python), with strong coding skills and annotation protocols.
• A good understanding of statistical probability distributions, bias, error and power as well as sampling and resampling methods.
• Developed skills in the application of scientific methods to practical problems through experimental design, exploratory data analysis and hypothesis testing to reach robust conclusions.
• Excellent report-writing skills. Well-developed time management skills and demonstrable experience of prioritising work to meet tight deadlines.
• Effective interpersonal and communication skills; the ability to work both part of a team and independently, without supervision as circumstances dictate.
• A strong intellectual curiosity with an interdisciplinary approach, drawing on innovation in academia and industry.
• An appreciation of the need for effective methods in data privacy and security, and an awareness of the relevant legislation.

My client is a successful and innovative commercial Bioinformatics business based in Edinburgh with customers worldwide. They are currently looking for a Bioinformatician to join their varied and multinational team.

The company is a young, well-funded and profitable business, with a reputation for excellence and a strong, diverse customer base.

You will be involved in all aspects of projects from planning to completion and delivery of contracts for academic and industrial customers and be involved in service and system development for a large range of data types including transcriptomics, genomics, epigenetics, proteomics and metabolomics.

Within the business there is a significant opportunity to make a real impact and contribution, further developing your career in terms of diversity of commercial projects and shaping the business’ service offering. In addition, the role offers a generous salary package which will be reviewed regularly as the company progresses.

My client is a successful and innovative commercial Bioinformatics business based in Edinburgh with customers worldwide. They are currently looking for a Bioinformatician to join their varied and multinational team.

The company is a young, well-funded and profitable business, with a reputation for excellence and a strong, diverse customer base.

You will be involved in all aspects of projects from planning to completion and delivery of contracts for academic and industrial customers and be involved in service and system development for a large range of data types including transcriptomics, genomics, epigenetics, proteomics and metabolomics.

Within the business there is a significant opportunity to make a real impact and contribution, further developing your career in terms of diversity of commercial projects and shaping the business’ service offering. In addition, the role offers a generous salary package which will be reviewed regularly as the company progresses.

My client is a successful and innovative commercial Bioinformatics business based in Edinburgh with customers worldwide. The company is young, well-funded and profitable, with a reputation for excellence and a strong, diverse customer base. 

We are looking for a Client Project Manager to join them in this newly created role as the dedicated point of contact for all key accounts. The role will work closely with the CEO and have responsibility for overseeing the entire process of enquiry processing, contracting, delivery of projects and finance. 

The successful candidate will be a highly organised, competent and efficient professional capable of developing and managing relationships with all project stakeholders both internal and external. 

They will have a proactive approach to problem solving, flexible attitude to changing priorities and a keen eye for detail. This role is pivotal to the next stage of growth for the business and offers a challenging and exciting environment for someone to develop their career. 

What the role will involve:

• Being point of contact for key account clients for sales and project management
• Proposal and SOW preparation and submission
• Creation and action of communication plans
• Manage client communications and arrange client calls/kick off meetings where required
• Liaise and communicate project progress and updates internally and to clients
• Identify issues which may impact on project delivery and escalating these where necessary
• Manage invoice milestones for all projects, and report monthly time used on time-based projects at end of month

 Requirements for role:

•  Experience in the Life Sciences industry 

The company offer a great work-life balance with flexible working hours and a real team mentality. All in all, this is a growing business with an opportunity to make a real impact on their continued success.

My client is a Scottish SME designing, developing and manufacturing highly innovative solutions and providing services to researchers, diagnostic companies and drug discovery companies world wide. As an organisation, they are progressive, ambitious and highly regarded by both staff and customers alike and have established an exciting growth, orientated future.

The leadership team are committed to building on this growth and success through hiring exceptional people who will in turn enjoy a career with significant opportunity for personal development into senior positions as growth plans are realised. In essence it's a place to build a future.

The newly created role of International Business Development Manager specifically offers the opportunity to continue to build the Sales function through working closely with the CEO to personally deliver on business plan targets and KPI's. It is a high profile role and key to the central plans of the business and involves working with existing, known and unknown potential customers to build solid revenue streams across the product and service range.

This is an exciting time in this space with customer engagement increasing through the technological applications on offer and importantly, through the end user education and management. Essentially, the company has an expanding market for its services and equipment and consumables.

Responsibilities include: Generating and qualifying sales opportunities, National and International Customer visits, Preparing Strategic Account Plans, Developing and presenting value propositions, Sales negotiation and closure, attending conferences and exhibitions both in the UK and overseas.