Job Details

SourceAbled is seeking candidates for a full-time direct hire role as a Senior Associate Scientist, Metabolism with our client Pfizer, one of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies. Seeking candidates in or around Andover, MA., or willing to relocate. (Relocation assistance may be available depending upon business needs and/or eligibility)

**This position is being offered as part of a disability/neurodiversity program which is designed to provide a more inclusive and supportive hiring process and work environment for job seekers with disabilities and/or neurodivergence, which includes,but is not limited to autism, ADD/ADHD, PTSD, OCD, Anxiety Disorder, Dyslexia, Bipolar, and Tourette's Syndrome**

As Senior Associate Scientist, Metabolism you will be responsible for supporting the preclinical evaluation and early clinical development of candidate drugs to treat chronic kidney diseases.

Position Tasks

• Contribute to achievement of immediate work group goals and collaborate with other team members.
• Satisfactorily completes all cGLP (current Good Laboratory Practices) and safety training in conformance with requirements.
• Perform sample preparation for preclinical and clinical serology in bio functional assays to support vaccine development and clinical studies.
• Complete required documentation for laboratory work involving bio-functional assays.
• Execute qualifications/validations of new instruments and custom methods.
• Organize assigned work according to established departmental priorities.
• Collaborate with the Primary Pharmacology Group to ensure alignment around assay technology selection, assay quality criteria and validation requirements.
• Interact with external vendors to obtain quotes, and purchase reagents for clinical testing where applicable.
• Identify and report any experimental problems, proactively troubleshoot causative factors, and implement necessary corrections following discussion with supervisor.
• Manage manual and robotic sample preparation, use and maintenance of appropriate equipment, and preparation of relevant reagents.
• Train other analysts on established technologies and manage direct reports.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree
• 3+ years of experience in cell culture and cell based assays
• Ability to use appropriate software to perform analysis of data
• Basic laboratory skills in the area of quantitative-PCR, molecular biology, western blotting, biochemical assays and tissue processing
• Experience with experimental design and the interpretation of results
• Effective verbal and written communication skills
• Proficiency with personal computers, including word processing, Excel, PowerPoint and relevant scientific software

Nice-to-Have

• Hands-on experience with mammalian cell culture and flow cytometry
• In vivo pharmacology experience
• Drug discovery experience

  
Work Location Assignment: On Premise

Relocation assistance may be available based on business needs and/or eligibility.

It is the policy of Rangam Consultants, Inc. to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to any legally protected status such as race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability or veteran status. 

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