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.
Mid/Senior Computational Drug Discovery Scientist
Computational Drug Discovery Scientists use modelling and simulation to accelerate early-stage drug discovery. They design and optimize small molecules through computer-aided drug design (CADD) and structure-based modelling.
Core duties:
Running molecular docking, dynamics, and pharmacophore modelling – Using software like Schrodinger, MOE, or OpenEye.
Collaborating with medicinal chemistry and biology teams – Informing compound selection and SAR analysis.
Designing virtual screening workflows – Prioritising libraries and filtering based on predicted properties (e.g., ADMET).
Building QSAR and ML models – To predict compound activity and guide lead optimization.
Contributing to publications and intellectual property – Supporting innovation across internal pipelines or collaborations.
Candidates typically have a PhD in computational chemistry, structural biology, or cheminformatics, with strong coding and visualization skills.
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.
