Vacancy Life Sciences

Sr. Scientist

Are you an experienced scientist, with a PhD degree and a taste for food and science? Then I might have a challenge for your at one of our clients (which is a CRO). Their Health department provides tailored support to companies which are seeking to identify the mechanism of action or to substantiate health benefits of their food ingredient or products. Their focus is on benefits in gut health and immunity, and the role of the gut microbiota. The research models include in vitro cell assays, as well as clinical trials.

| Your challenges?

As a Sr. Scientist you will engage with their customers to interpret customer questions on a scientific-technical level. After identifying the customer need you will translate this into a high-quality, result-oriented project approach. After the project has been approved you will be responsible for the scientific supervision, interpretation and reporting of in vitro studies, and for the immunological expertise in clinical trials. You will also be in the lead in developing new in vitro research approaches, allowing us to address specific customer needs. To guarantee success scientists will collaborate in multidisciplinary teams led by project managers, with technical and scientific experts and business development managers, both within the company and on the customer side.

| What do we expect from you?

• You’re a Sr.Scientist (with a background in Nutritional science, gut health, digestion and microbiome) with a PhD degree and at least 8 years of working experience within a CRO (food or pharma);
• solid experience in designing and conducting in vitro and ex vivo cell assays and assay development;
• strong (English) communication skills, result driven and a team player.

| What does our Business Cell have to offer?

TMC Life Sciences is one of the specialized business cells of TMC. We focus on various competencies such as: Clinical (data) management, Bioprocessing, R&D, Quality & Regulatory and Bioinformatics, medical nutrition. The team consists of junior and senior Employeneurs who have different educational and technical backgrounds, and have different nationalities and characters. This makes working at TMC Life Sciences very dynamic and gives you the opportunity to learn a lot from each other, to expand your network and to get a taste of different disciplines. TMC Life Sciences is a starting business cell within TMC. Therefore there is plenty of room for entrepreneurship & creativity.

| Why choose for Employeneurship?

We are truly unique thanks to our Employeneurship model which is a true innovation for the High Technology consulting business. It is the business relationship of the 21th century for high skilled technical professionals. It is built around 5 main pillars:

• You will have a permanent employment contract, offering you stability and security;
• you will get to know your market value and have a share in the profit your work generates thanks to the individual profit sharing;
• we will support you with a one-on-one coaching and trainings designed to help you develop your entrepreneurial skills;
• the competence cells structure, provides you with a strong meaningful and relevant network;
• the entrepreneurial lab: a playground for new ideas and a potential launching for start-ups.

TMC is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.