Staff Scientist

**Company Description** The QIMA story**

At QIMA, we are on a mission to offer our clients smart solutions to make products you can trust.

Operating in over 100 countries, we serve the consumer products, food, and life sciences industries and help more than 30,000 brands, retailers, manufacturers, and growers achieve quality excellence.
We combine on-the-ground expertise with digital solutions that bring accuracy, transparency and intelligence for quality and compliance data.

What sets us apart is our unique culture. Our 5,000 Qimers live and make decisions every day by our QIMA Values.

Established in 1996, QIMA Life Sciences is a Contract Research Organization that specializes in cellular and molecular pharmacology. As the life science division of the QIMA group, we bring together QIMA Bioalternatives, QIMA Synelvia, Newtone Technologies, and Monasterium Laboratory to offer a comprehensive range of solutions.

Your tasks:

- Organize the work packages for each assigned project in order to meet deadlines under the supervision of a Team Leader
- Build scientific knowledge in regards to the topics relevant for each assigned project
- Conceive, design and independently execute assays
- Establish and validate new techniques
- Critical and professional data analyses, and interpretation
- Supervise and train junior staff scientists, technicians, and student assistants
- Critical and professional project documentation following internal QM guidelines
- Perform statistical analysis and presentation of data with appropriate software (e.g. Excel, GraphPad Prism, FlowJo)
- Professionally prepare milestone reports and manuscripts
- Provide project updates to Team Leader and/or Principal Scientist or Principal Consultant
- Represent the company at conferences and other external meetings
- Discuss scientific results with other company employees
- Participating in scientific lab meetings and the organization of workshops
- Proposing new innovative techniques
- Organize maintenance and troubleshooting for assigned equipment

**Qualifications**
**Requirements**:

- Completed training as PhD in a relevant discipline
- 2+ years post-doctoral experience
- Proven expertise in FACS, RNASeq, Immunohistochemistry, cytokine array or ELISA, or RT-qPCR
- Publication of at least three peer-reviewed first author paper in an international life sciences journal
- Excellent knowledge of written and spoken English (Company language: English)
- Priority will be given to applicants with documented experience in skin and/or hair follicle research
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team as well as to lead and motivate assigned personnel
- Excellent organizational, time management and problem-solving skills
- Ability to prioritize work in order to meet tight deadlines
- Flexibility