Group Lead - Discovery and Design Group

Placed: 08/12/17
Region: Oxfordshire
Location: Oxford
Category: Jobs


Content of the advertisement:

**About Early Development**

The Early Development Group has a core function in the Research department to discover and develop new gene and cell therapies to treat disease.

**Job purpose** :

To manage the effective performance of the team and major projects within Discovery and Design Group with a tactical focus on day to day management and meeting the scientific, clinical, manufacturing and business requirements of the department in line with company goals.

**Key responsibilities and accountabilities:**

* Provide leadership, direction and line management to scientists to contribute to the overall group objectives in line with company objectives
* Be responsible for day to day operations within the group and ensuring project objectives are met within a set time frame and ensure projects remain in budget.
* Ensure all direct reports and persons involved in projects are fully trained and have a sufficient level of knowledge to undertake and interpret experiments. Maintain a high standard of record keeping and documentation of experiments so that information is clearly captured, disseminated and reported. Disseminate critical findings which may have a business impact to other departments within the company.
* Have excellent knowledge of project area literature and upcoming technologies and ensure teams are up to date with current thinking and literature.
* Excellent overall understanding of the companys activities across departments and able to initiate and contribute to inter-departmental collaborations and discussions.
* Maintain a high ethical standard and a commitment to producing high quality work.
* Report results of the group to head of department and senior management.
* Present data at internal and external meetings and conferences to peers and subject leaders in the field.
* Prepare manuscripts for publication and documents for patent applications, regulatory authorities and external collaborators.
* Responsible for ensuring all scientific or proprietary data is submitted to PatentSafe or recorded in appropriate official documentation.

**Key skills and requirements:**

* PhD in relevant Bioscience (e.g. virology, molecular and/or cellular biology) and have several years post-doctoral experience in academia or industry
* Proven line management experience
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills
* Experience of managing multiple teams and projects
* Excellent organisational and time management skills
* Ability to prioritise workloads and work under pressure
* Good attention to detail
* Highly motivated

**Person Specification:**

* Extensive industry experience in gene or cell therapies for disease with ocular or neurological disease experience preferable with substantial relevant experience
* A detailed knowledge and experience of developing viral vector based technologies
* Proven leadership and project management experience
* A highly motivated, enthusiastic, positive attitude

**How to Apply**

Please use the questionnaire to highlight how you meet the competencies for the role and to state your salary requirements and current salary. Your questionnaire responses will be used along with your CV to assess your application.

Please note that speculative CVs will not be considered.

**Closing Date: 12th January 2018**

**Please note that we may when necessary be required to close a job prior to the closing date, due to a large number of applications or change in circumstance.

* The post will close on the closing date stated at midnight *

It is company policy that travel expenses will not be reimbursed. **

Price / Salary: Competitive