Clinical Field Applications Scientist - United Kingdom - Oxford Nanopore Technologies Ltd.

Description

Oxford Nanopore Technologies is headquartered at the Oxford Science Park outside Oxford, UK, with satellite offices and a commercial presence in many global locations across the US, APAC and Europe.

Oxford Nanopore employs from multiple subject areas including nanopore science, molecular biology and applications, informatics, engineering, electronics, manufacturing and commercialisation. The management team, led by CEO Dr Gordon Sanghera, has a track record of delivering disruptive technologies to the market.

Oxford Nanopore's sequencing platform is the only technology that offers real-time analysis, in fully scalable formats from pocket to population scale, that can analyse native DNA or RNA and sequence any length of fragment to achieve short to ultra-long read lengths. Our goal is to enable the analysis of any living thing, by anyone, anywhere

Job Summary

Reporting to the Clinical & Diagnostics Director, this exciting and challenging role involves working within a cross-functional team to provide high-quality technical expertise, training, consultancy and representation for Oxford Nanopore key strategic partners and customers in the clinical space. The successful candidate will be working closely with KOLs, key strategic partners and internal teams to provide technical project management and tailored support for clinical and diagnostics products from early access/POC, clinical evaluation and fully released solutions. The post holder will strengthen the company's relationship with key clinical partners and ensure successful support, evaluation and adoption in the field.

Key Responsibilities

Provide front line support to customers and partners on all aspects of the nanopore sequencing workflow including sample preparation, sequencing and data analysis.

Providing high quality technical expertise to clinical partners and KOLs by act as the point of contact for the key internal teams

Support with implementation and adoption of new clinical and diagnostics solutions (either fully developed in ONT or through partners), troubleshooting and guide them during and post implementation.

Provide support, project management and technical expertise for clinical diagnostics solutions during early access/POC, external alpha/beta/validation and clinical trials

Co-ordinate and deliver training, demos and solution evaluation at partners and customer sites.

Work in collaboration with Applications team and evaluate early prototypes (end-to-end regulated solutions from wet lab to reporting) to provide valuable feedback on product development and usability studies

Establish strong relationships with early access testing sites (e.g KOLs, ONT advocates, health organizations etc) and report feedback internally to contribute to product development, improvement and future usability.

Technical training, on-boarding and user support for market seeding, early access and developer programs

Evaluate partners solutions in the lab in collaboration with internal teams.

Together with regional manager support clinical partners training, on-boarding, early access programs and 2nd line support.

Recording and documenting all relevant information from customers and prospective customers into the CRM

Travel close to 60% at times. Really could vary based on customer needs.

We offer outstanding benefits to include an attractive bonus, generous pension contributions, private healthcare and an excellent starting salary.

If you are looking to utilise your skills to really make a difference to humankind, then consider joining our team and apply today

Please note that no terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate on the grounds of a person's gender, marital status, race, religion, colour, age, disability or sexual orientation. Every candidate will be assessed only in accordance with their merits, qualifications and abilities to perform the duties of the job.

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