Associate Scientist

3 weeks ago


Liverpool, United Kingdom AstraZeneca Full time

**Location: Speke, Liverpool**

**Competitive salary and benefits**:
Make a more significant impact to patients’ lives around the globe

With our ground-breaking pipeline, the outlook is forward-thinking. Be proud to be part of a place that has achieved so much, yet is still moving forward. There’s no better time to join our global, growing enterprise as we lead the way for healthcare and society.

This is an ambitious, yet highly rewarding, lab-based role within a commercial setting, providing the rare opportunity to have a visible and direct impact on public health.

**Typical Accountabilities**:
**The role holder will**:

- Perform relevant lab-based techniques and experiments, based on a standard methodology.
- Communicate data to the Senior Scientist (LAIV Virology) and the team, on a frequent basis.
- Assist, and work closely with, other team members in the lab to ensure all seasonal process timelines are met.
- Contribute to team projects, and trouble-shooting ideas, as and when required.
- Searches for information which may improve research methodology and procedures
- Ensures that work is performed in accordance with appropriate Safety, Health & Environment (SHE), quality and compliance standards, e.g. Good Laboratory Practice (GLP)

**Education, Qualifications, Skills and Experience**:
Essential
- To have a minimum of a life science degree, preferably based on virology, microbiology, or molecular biology.
- Hands-on laboratory work experience, within a research, academia, contract testing, or biopharmaceutical setting.
- Knowledge of GLP, in particular manufacturing and/or laboratory practices and quality systems
- Ability to prioritise workload in order to work to tight timelines.

**Desirable**
- A Masters (MSc or MRes) degree in virology, microbiology, or molecular biology.
- Practical laboratory experience working with viruses.
- Practical laboratory experience of cloning and other standard molecular biology techniques.
- Knowledge of influenza virus and/or other RNA viruses.
- Pharmaceutical industry experience.

**Why AstraZeneca**:
At AstraZeneca, we 're dedicated to being a Great Place to Work. Where you are empowered to push the boundaries of science and unleash your entrepreneurial spirit. There’s no better place to make a difference to medicine, patients and society. An inclusive culture that champions diversity and collaboration. Always committed to lifelong learning, growth and development.

**So, what’s next?**

Applications must include your current CV, and a cover letter which presents your motivation and suitability for the role.

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