Scientific Officer

**The Role**

**Scientific Officer (FTC)**

**Bristol**

**About Us**

We're a truly international company, fourth largest in our industry and operating across 120 markets. An inclusive, innovative global FMCG business supported by over 27,500 employees. As we embrace a new era of growth, we are transforming. Our ways of working and culture are driven by a challenger mindset, constantly questioning the status quo. Our agility and entrepreneurial spirit, alongside award winning development programmes, enable innovation and success while creating exciting and rewarding career choices.

As we move forward, our customers will be at the heart of what we do, evolving to needs and expectations and committing to a more meaningful contribution to harm reduction by building a successful Next generation Products (NGP) business. Integral to our long-term success is our sustainability strategy, behaving responsibly and supporting our ambitions, all underpinned by high governance.

Encouraging inclusion at local levels and supporting a developing and robust diversity agenda globally, we’re fully committed to creating and maintaining an environment that celebrates and respects difference fully embracing our **FIVE BEHAVIOURS** defining how we should act, make decisions and treat one another connecting our purpose, vision and strategy defining our culture.

**OUR PURPOSE**: Forging a path to a healthier future for moments of relaxation and pleasure.

**OUR VISION**: To build a strong challenger business powered by responsibility, focus and choice.

The Scientific Officer will be responsible for providing accurate, balanced and objective scientific information regarding Imperial Brands’ product portfolio to internal and external key decision makers and business partners as required as well as for providing project management support to the Behavioural Science Team within SS&E. This role will thus assist scientific interpretation and contextualisation as well as generation of scientific data as part of Imperial Brands legal duty of care activities as well as support the study management and generation of Behavioural Science data.

**Principle Accountabilities**
- Support scientific literature reviews and reviews of regulatory & governmental reports relevant to Imperial Brands’ scientific, regulatory and commercial strategies.
- Monitor, review, critique and report on literature developments in designated scientific topics and provide overviews and early alerts to senior leaders, and the wider Group Science & Regulatory Affairs function.
- Contribute to specific scientific questions requested to support the formation of scientific opinion & substantiation of scientific evidence and the positioning of the Group on scientific and technical issues.
- Coordinate with external partners to produce high-quality, scientifically accurate documents.
- Establish scientific evidence, records, and content in living documents, and re-evaluate regularly so that functions are working from a shared, up to date, blueprint.
- Support with identifying topics (horizon scanning approaches) which require expert opinion/ a formal report to support the Imperial’s Scientific and Regulatory Affairs narratives.
- Supporting the wider Scientific Substantiation Team on the behavioral & clinical research program & related studies to support our Next Generation Products (E-Cigarettes, Heated Tobacco, Oral Nicotine Products).
- Support Project Management on behavioral & clinical studies in close collaboration with internal and external project teams to deliver the operational elements of the study plans.
- Support wider activities related to the outsourcing of clinical studies to CROs and vendors.
- Support research meetings with internal stakeholders, suppliers and vendors including kick off, investigator meetings, lessons learned, etc.
- Contribute to growing relationships with external partners based on mutual trust, participating in regular update meetings and discussions regarding research projects and scientific developments with external experts.

**Key Skills, Education & Experience**
- Graduate qualifications or experience in an aspect of science related to tobacco & nicotine or health sciences e.g., toxicology, pharmacology, biological sciences, biomedical sciences or medical biochemistry etc.
- Experience in supporting qualitative and quantitative research acquired in academia or industry, preferably in a regulated consumer products industry such as pharmaceuticals, medical devices, tobacco, food or cosmetics.
- Experience and skill performing medical and scientific literature searches and experience producing high quality scientific documents with superb attention to detail**.**:

- **START WITH THE CONSUMER**: Ability to analyse complex and detailed scientific research papers, including concisely summarising and critiquing publications.
- **COLLABORATE WITH PURPOSE**: Strong interpersonal skills along with an ability to build and leverag