Principal Scientist in Research Data Management to work on developing a product for use on cheminformatic data.

• Data Management
• Cheminformatics
• Product Development

Full Job Description

Principal Scientist- Research Data Management - Cheminformatics - Product Development

KEMIO Consulting have partnered with a top 10 award winning Pharmaceutical organisation to recruit a a Principal Scientist in Research Data Management to work on developing a product for use on cheminformatic data. You will join a growing Global Computational and Digital Sciences Unit and will actively contribute to the discovery of breakthrough therapies that will increase human health.

This role offers you the unique opportunity to contribute to maximizing the value of key R&D data assets. You will play a pivotal role in accelerating future drug discovery projects through enhancing access to data and enabling innovative re-use of data for novel scientific insights, and you will take ownership for a core element of their R&D data infrastructure.

Tasks & responsibilities

• You will collaborate closely with stakeholders across all functions in Discovery Research to identify strategic needs and priorities for capturing, accessing and reusing data in drug discovery projects, with an initial focus on small molecule research.
• You will take over responsibility for developing a roadmap to enable a new generation of innovations on top of research data from drug discovery projects. Furthermore, you will oversee a successful implementation in collaboration with partners in IT and domain experts.
• Through your interactions with both a large community of daily users across multiple functions and with senior stakeholders to ensure alignment with overall R&D strategic goals, your role will be instrumental to enabling accelerated insights for their R&D pipeline.
• In this role, you will also take over ownership of their compound data base as core element of their R&D data infrastructure.
• In addition to the above, you will drive data quality standards and frames for implementation in alignment with data generating functions, thereby enhancing value and availability of data for future reuse.

Requirements

• PhD in chemistry, physics, bioengineering, computer sciences or a related field
• Strong technical expertise with hands-on experience in either small or large software development and/or database management; experience in cheminformatics or a related field is a plus
• Multiple years of experience in pharma R&D, and experience in driving collaborations at the intersection of R&D and technology
• Excellent communication and moderation skills in English, written and spoken

KEMIO will be screening suitable candidates immediately and hoping to hire the successful candidate by June / July 2024. Please contact us if you would like to discuss this, or other vacancies in our portfolio.

Keywords: Cheminformatics, Computational Chemistry, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Computational Sciences, Drug Discovery, Pharmaceutical, Biotechnology, Product Management, Data Science, Germany