Welcome to Next Phase Recruitment! Please see below our current jobs that match your search criteria. For a broader job search please visit the home page or call us on 01403 216216 to discuss career options in other areas of Life Science and Technology.

Welcome to Next Phase Recruitment! Please use the above link to see our current jobs that match your search criteria. For a broader job search please visit the home page or call us on 01403 216216 to discuss career options in other areas of Life Science and Technology.

Welcome to Next Phase Recruitment! We are very experienced in helping people to progress their careers in Research. Firstly, here is a general guide to a career path in this sector. Please also scroll further down the page to see and apply for our current jobs that match your search criteria. We also invite you to go to the main page of our website for a broader job search and call us on 01403 216216 for a confidential discussion about your career options. 

Research Scientist

Research Scientists are often multi-disciplinary, with experience of using a range of scientific reearch techniques covering Biochemistry, Cell Biology, Molecular Biology, and Genetics, depending on the environment.  Often one of the most innovative sectors for Research Scientists is Synthetic Biology, which has a wide range of applications as well as the potential to impact on society significantly.  Examples of the applications are bio production, use of waste feedstocks for the manufacture of high value products, manipulation of virus or mammalian cells to be used within Viral Vector manufacture, and Cell & Gene Therapies.  Due to the relative youth of this sector this is an area where the most creative and forward thinking research scientists will be able to bring their ideas to the market, right at the cutting edge of new discoveries and innovations.  New technologies such as CRISPR will transform the industry and are now becoming more commonplace, with so many applications yet to be explored and true impact to be measured.

Research Scientists tend to have quite standard job titles – Junior Research Scientist, Senior Research Scientist, Lead Scientist, Principal Scientist and so on.

Skills and Experience required to become a Research Scientist

  • PhD or equivalent in a relevant field
  • Post doctoral experience in a commercial environment
  • Automation, statistics, design of experiments and/or programming
  • Multidisciplinary industrial environment
  • Excellent communication skills 
  • Ability to use your own initiative to work autonomously
  • Knowledge of GMLP / GLP or ISO Standards
  • Innovative, creative scientist who enjoys problem solving

Salary Levels

Research Scientists can receive a wide range of salaries depending on their seniority and areas of expertise. A graduate-level Research Scientist  would expect to earn something around £23k - £25k initially and to then progress up through each next phase of their career as a Research Scientist, especially in specialist areas such as Viral Vector science, Fermentation and Genetic Manipulation. 

Wilmslow

Wilmslow is a small town in Cheshire in the North West region of England.  Wilmslow is located in an affluent area including Mottram St. Andrew and Alderley Edge known locally as the Golden Triangle which is one of the most expensive and desirable places to live in the UK and is favoured by footballers and celebrities.   Once the railways arrived in the Victorian era providing good connections to cities including Manchester, Liverpool and Macclesfield the area became desirable as a place of residence for wealthy North West businessmen.

Local employment is provided at the HQ of clothing giant Umbro, the Information Commissioner’s Office and Alderley Park which is home to the UK’s largest bioscience park and one of three campuses comprising MSP a major provider of support to science and technology companies. 

Wilmslow also offers easy access to great leisure opportunities including the world-famous Manchester United and Manchester City football stadiums, the Peak District National Park and Quarry Bank, a museum of the cotton industry which dominated the area during the Industrial Revolution.

Famous people from Wilmslow:  Alan Turing, mathematician and creator of a machine that cracked the Enigma code during WW2 and Sir Alex Ferguson, Manager of Manchester United for many years.