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  • Location: High Ongar
  • Salary: Up to £48,000
  • Job Type:Permanent

Posted over 1 year ago

  • Sector: Scientific Development
  • Contact: Kamran Sahota
  • Contact Email: kamran.sahota@nextphaserecruitment.com
  • Contact Phone: 01403 216216
  • Start Date: 2022-09-04
  • Job Ref: V-47455
 
Do you have a strong expertise within medicinal chemistry?
 
We are looking for a highly qualified and experienced senior scientist with a PhD or Graduate educated medicinal chemists with interest in and experience of medicinal chemistry design principles combined with good synthetic chemistry skills. Our client has performed fantastically in the past 5 years breaking revenue records and growing internationally. The role is permanent and full-time and paying up to £48,000 and requires you to be on a state-of-the-art site 5 days a week.
 
Your role will include:
 
  • To become familiar with the Drug Discovery Process in the Pharmaceutical industry especially active families and their modes of action and start to use to this information in proposals for new ideas.
  • Designing and synthesizing compounds and libraries for activity both in lead identification or optimization to meet project, company, and customer requirements.
  • Conducting experiments on existing work and design new ones to test proof of concept, observe results and propose future actions
  • Extending the work of the project team by researching, proposing, and implementing novel lines of investigation and new approaches to project work.
  • To keep abreast of new developments in the literature and in evolving technologies, to evaluate them in terms of their potential to address company goals and recommend on their implementation.
  • To ensure that clear, concise, and accurate records of all project work are recorded for the jobholder and any subordinates.
  • To supervise, train and motivate subordinate staff where applicable.
 
The Company:
 
The company has expanded close to a thousand laboratories and has a vast network of experts within their fields with tens of thousands of employees. As one of the leading global emerging players in specialized clinical diagnostics testing and has been one of Europe's best performing equities over the last 20 years. The company has decades of experience of drug discovery services to advance their mission to discover and develop effective therapeutics.  The company works in multiple different sectors and are market leaders in in certain testing and laboratory services for genomics, discovery pharmacology, forensics, CDMO, advanced material sciences and in the support of clinical studies.
 
Benefits:
 
In addition to a generous basic salary, the company offers the following benefits package:
 
  • Fantastic development and progression opportunities
  • Bonuses
  • Brand new site and equipment
 
Skills and Experience Required:
 
This requires PhD or graduate-level medicinal chemists with an interest in and familiarity with medicinal chemistry design principles, as well as solid synthetic chemistry skills, are essential. It would be beneficial to have a good industrial background in Medicinal Chemistry. You should also have good communication skills together with efficient scientific record-keeping practices.