Junior Staff Scientist

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

We are seeking a team-orientated and highly motivated Junior Staff Scientist (M/F/d) full time to join the QIMA Monasterium team in Münster, Germany.
- Organize the workload in order to meet the deadlines of the project
- Serve as Study Lead for contract ad internal R&D projects
- Provide project updates to the Study Manager and/or Study Director
- Supervise and train technicians
- Perform lab works, including hair follicle isolation and ex vivo culture; ex vivo skin organ culture; tissue cryosectioning; immunofluorescence staining, imaging and evaluation; RNA isolation from skin tissue; gene expression analysis
- Professional and responsible data documentation and archiving
- Perform statistical analysis and presentation of data with Excel and GraphPad Prism
- Prepare reports with PowerPoint and Word
- Participating in scientific lab meetings
- Build scientific knowledge in regards to the topics relevant for each assigned project
- Execute laboratory work for each assigned project
- Organize work packages in order to meet deadlines
- Establish and validate new techniques
- Critical and professional data analyses
- Supervise and train 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 drafts for milestone reports and manuscripts
- Provide project updates to Staff Scientist and/or Team Leader
- Discuss scientific results with other company employees
- Participating in scientific lab meetings
- Proposing new innovative techniques

**Qualifications** Eligibility**
- Completed training as PhD, or thesis defense foreseen within 6 months
- Post-doctoral experience **not** necessary
- Substantial experience in biological research laboratories
- Excellent knowledge of written and spoken English (Company language: English)
- Priority will be given to applicants with documented experience in skin, hair follicle and/or immunology research, and/or in the following techniques: organ culture, immunostaining, FACS, FACS cell sorting, MACS, cytokine array or ELISA, RNAseq, single cell RNAseq

**Requirements**:

- Ability to work independently and as part of a team
- Excellent organizational, time management and problem-solving skills
- Ability to prioritize work in order to meet tight deadlines
- Flexibility

**Additional Information** What we offer**:

- Temporary contract with the possibility of extension and eventually unlimited contract.
- Secure job in a future-orientated growing industry.
- Individual, long-term, personal and professional career development.
- Excellent learning and development opportunities to expand your skills and knowledge.
- A good work-life balance thanks to flexible working hours.
- Attractive social benefits (company pension scheme, bonus package).
- A company culture that values respect, diversity, and social responsibility.
- Open working atmosphere with flat hierarchies.
- Advanced technology in a modern workplace