Scientific Investigator - Cambridge, United Kingdom - Abcam Plc

Abcam Plc

Verified Company

Cambridge, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Company Description

For over 20 years, Abcam has been providing tools the scientific community needs to enable faster breakthroughs in critical areas like cancer, neurological disorders, infectious diseases, and metabolic disorders.
We believe that to continue making progress, we need to work together in new ways.

We need your own unique perspective as well as this of our people to make an always greater impact on the world.

This community needs people like you:
dedicated, agile and above all audacious so we can truly bring progress forward.

Job Description:

Here at Abcam, we strive to have the best quality products for our customers and continue to deliver the products they need to complete their missions.

Our validation and technical quality team play an important part in this process and have a key role in solving any customer product quality queries.

This new scientist role will be part of that team and is an opportunity to collaborate with customers and stakeholders across the business.

The VTQ team receives enquiries from external sources (academic and industrial customers along with collaborators and companies that OEM our products) as well as from internal labs and commercial teams sources.

As a member of our team, you will design experiments to conduct and facilitate high level root-cause analysis on global product quality incidents, at both the incident level and from a strategic program-level scale, requiring the ability to switch between tactical and strategic thinking.

This role is based in our Cambridge office and it involves daily interaction around the Abcam global network, including the occasional flexibility for off-hours calls with the US and China.

This position has significant professional growth opportunities to gain seniority within Abcam, and provides exposure to other departments within the Company, including Senior Leadership interactions and will be of interest to skilled scientists who to move away from bench science toward more corporate or commercial scientific roles.

This role requires collaboration and decisiveness; experimental design skills and data analysis, presentation skills and line manager potential.

Qualifications:

You will have a PhD in an area of science related to the products sold by Abcam (Biochemistry, Cell and Molecular biology or Immunology) and some industrial experience outside of academia.

You will have commercial experience in validation/characterization/cell sciences in an areas that aligns to some of the platform categories in which Abcam publishes products; antibodies, cell lines, protein sciences, immunoassays, kits and reagents.

This should include analyzing data from Western Blot, IHC, ICC, IP, ELISA and Flow experiments to determine the specificity of tested products.

You have a thorough understanding of validation and quality control testing of antibodies including experimental design and the ability to compare protocols and troubleshoot experimental design.

You are able to manage multiple projects and the desire to work as a bridge between scientific labs and commercial teams.

It goes without saying that you will be comfortable with new software tools and new platforms.

Additional Information

We know that when it comes to benefits, no one size fits all.

Flexibility and choice matter which is why in addition to market competitive salaries, we offer you a flexible benefits package which is tailored to your unique needs and support your financial, physical and emotional wellbeing.

This includes our award-winning share scheme, 18 weeks fully paid maternity leave, 6 weeks fully paid paternity leave as well as highly flexible working and much more.

Besides, your development will be integral to your experience here. You will grow alongside other talented minds, in ways you may often find unexpected.

When people come together, incredible things happen. Here you'll work in a safe environment where you can be who you truly are. We'll champion and celebrate your uniqueness throughout your journey with us.

This is how we excel at partnering with the scientific community no matter the challenge, ultimately helping solve the world's most critical diseases.

Find out more about Diversity & Inclusion at Abcam.

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