Senior Associate Scientist
Location: Cambridge
Salary: £0.00 - £0.00 per annum
Job Type: Permanent
Date Posted: Tue Sep 17 13:37:54 2024
Description
Job purpose:
Zoetis is a global animal health company dedicated to supporting customers and their businesses. Building on 60 years of experience, we deliver quality medicines, biopharmaceuticals and vaccines, complemented by diagnostic products and genetic tests and supported by a range of services. We are working every day to better understand and address the real-world challenges faced by those who raise and care for animals in ways they find truly relevant.
Zoetis discovers, develops, and manufactures a diverse portfolio of animal health medicines, biopharmaceuticals and vaccines designed to meet the real-world needs of veterinarians and livestock farmers and companion animal owners they support. Zoetis has the first monoclonal antibody therapy for treating atopic dermatitis in dogs. We are currently seeking to fill new positions to support our growing biopharmaceutical and vaccine portfolio.
Zoetis Veterinary Medicine Research and Development (VMRD), Cambridge, UK is seeking a talented and experienced Associate Scientist or Senior Associate Scientist to assist in the production, purification, and quantitation of proteins. The role is primarily focused on the cell culture and high throughput side of mAb production.
Core responsibilities:
Responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:
- Plasmid production and verification.
- Maintenance of cell bank and non-adherent cell lines for transfection.
- Transfection of cells to produce up to several hundreds of antibody candidates.
- Transfection of cells to produce tool proteins.
- Purification, quantification, and normalisation of antibodies.
- Accurate record keeping for all samples and cell lines.
- Maintenance of an accurate electronic notebook in a timely manner.
Key Skills:
Essential:
- Excellent aseptic technique.
- Confidence in handling multi-channel equipment and multi well plate formats.
- Proactive attitude and drive.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to work effectively as part of a team.
- Attention to detail and ability to multi-task.
- Organised with good time management
Desirable:
- Proven ability to design, clone, produce and QC plasmids.
- Working knowledge of flask and plate-based protein production.
- Quantification of antibodies by SPR.
- Manual high throughput antibody purification.
- Experience with liquid handling robotics.
- Solid knowledge of cellular/molecular biology
Behaviours:
Our Colleagues make the difference.
- Keep your professional competencies up to date. Train, and retrain.
- Be an expert in your subject matter. Demonstrate knowledge and continue to learn.
- Use the experience from setbacks and failure to drive your future success.
Always do the right thing
- Work constructively and ethically.
- Help build the reputation of our brand by understanding and supporting the things that we stand for.
Customer obsessed
- Be proactive and work with a sense of urgency and purpose.
- Deliver on commitment through generating quality products and solutions.
- Focus on customer requirements.
Run it like you own it
- Ground all action plans in scientifically sound thinking.
- Deliver on your commitments to colleagues. Do what you say you’ll do – and quicker and better.
- Be nimble and open to change.
We are one Zoetis
- Give the team timely information and support that helps them to deliver their role.
- Know what’s going on around the business and talk about it with colleagues
- Communicate across roles, across regions, across species.
Training & qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in a relevant area or equivalent work experience.
Experience:
Previous experience in a mAb/protein production role would be advantageous.
Travel requirements:
None
About Zoetis
At Zoetis, our purpose is to nurture the world and humankind by advancing care for animals. As a Fortune 500 company and the world leader in animal health, we discover, develop, manufacture and commercialize vaccines, medicines, diagnostics and other technologies for companion animals and livestock. We know our people drive our success. Our award-winning culture, built around our Core Beliefs, focuses on our colleagues’ careers, connection and support. We offer competitive healthcare and retirement savings benefits, along with an array of benefits, policies and programs to support employee well-being in every sense, from health and financial wellness to family and lifestyle resources.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Connected to our purpose and Core Beliefs, at Zoetis, we lead with inclusion. Our Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DE&I) focus helps create an environment where each colleague can thrive. Our commitment to DE&I begins with our leadership team of diverse backgrounds, experiences and ethnicities, and it is demonstrated in our support of our colleagues and the animal health industry. We have nine colleague resources groups whose members spread awareness, foster inclusivity and make a positive impact on our business and communities.
Our commitment to advancing Diversity, Equity and Inclusion has earned us recognitions as a 2024 Catalyst Award recipient and a Top 50 Company for Workplace Fairness by Fair360 (formerly DiversityInc). Zoetis has also been named a Best Place to Work for LGBTQ+ Equality, a Best Company for Working Parents, a Top Company for Executive Women, among many others. Learn more here.