Associate Director, Life Sciences

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Location: Hybrid working with 20-40% of the time in our Oxford or Cambridge offices

About Us

We're a pioneering health tech company that is working to revolutionise healthcare. We're all about helping individuals and those who look after them to make better decisions that improve health, particularly for those common diseases that affect most people and take up most of our precious healthcare resources.

Our secret weapon is genomics - and the unique insight DNA gives us into how our bodies work and sometimes go wrong. We use genomic data to power our tools and platforms, improving every step of the patient pathway. From preventing diseases to improving screening, diagnosing, treatment;, and even developing new medicines.

Our vision is a world where everyone benefits from genomics, helping people to live longer, healthier lives. If that all sounds exciting, join us!

A Day in the Life

This role is part of the Life Sciences team, a dynamic group tackling various challenges throughout the therapeutic development cycle-from facilitating therapeutic target discovery to leveraging genetic risk prediction for optimizing clinical trial design.

An Associate Director serves as a group leader and contributes by:

• Developing innovative and rigorous scientific strategies to address key challenges.
• Leading their team and personally contributing to the successful delivery of high-quality scientific outputs, ensuring alignment with project timelines and budget.
• Effectively communicating findings to internal and external stakeholders across different seniority levels and functions (e.g., Medical, Commercial, Technology).
• Fostering a culture of positivity and excellence, with line management responsibilities for their team.

In this role, you'll bring broad experience in statistical genetics to contribute to multiple areas within our company (e.g., genomic risk prediction approaches such as PRS, and core approaches like GWAS/colocalization for pharmaceutical objectives such as target discovery).

The Associate Director role combines innovative scientific thinking with a pragmatic, delivery-focused mindset. It requires a strong sense of ownership for objectives, a proactive approach, and the ability to thrive in a collaborative team environment.

You will need

• Expertise in statistical genetics and/or functional genomics, with experience in applications relevant to the life sciences (e.g., target discovery)
• Experience in taking ownership of independently developing, executing, and prioritizing scientific research plans for large size, long-term projects.
• The ability to lead for Genomics in interactions with 3rd parties, and being able to reach desired end goals.
• Experience of managing teams of scientists

So what's in it for you?

1. Salaries: Our salariesare externally benchmarked annually to ensure you receive compensation that aligns with the market.
2. Stock options- every team member gets stock options ensuring that everyone reaps the rewards of our collective growth.
3. Generous Holiday Allowance: 25 days of annual leave, an additional 3-day company shutdown at the end of the year, plus bank holidays. More time for you to unwind and enjoy.
4. Progression - We've got a straightforward and open progression framework that lets you easily see your strengths and areas where you can improve. With this knowledge, you can set personal goals to help you move up the career ladder.
5. Invest in Your Future: Take advantage of our training and development opportunities. From regular training courses, to access to a wide range of L&D materials. We're committed to helping you grow and succeed!
6. Hybrid Working, Tailored to You: Choose between working in the office and from home. You can be based anywhere in the UK as long as you can get to any one of our offices regularly. As a guide, we expect people to come to the office 2-3 times a week.
7. Wellbeing: Join a company that values you not just at work but also outside work. We offer a range of benefits, including comprehensive health insurance for you and your family, critical illness coverage, and life insurance. We also offer enhanced paid family leave.
8. Diversity and Inclusion - At Genomics, we wholeheartedly embrace and champion Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) initiatives. We foster an inclusive environment through various means, such as our 'All in Club,' a platform where we come together to celebrate and engage in meaningful discussions about cultural diversity. Additionally, we offer our 'Bank Your Bank Holiday' program, allowing you to exchange public holidays for dates that hold personal or cultural significance to you. It's our way of ensuring that every member of our community feels valued and included.
9. Giving Made Easy: Make a difference with our payroll giving scheme. Donate to your favourite charities tax-free and help make the world a better place!
10. Green Commute: Join our cycle-to-work scheme and enjoy a healthier, eco-friendly commute. We are also conveniently located by major transport hubs so public transport is a snip. It's good for you and the planet!
11. Keeping it social: There are a variety of company socials to enjoy throughout the year, from regular company town halls, team picnics, outdoor summer activities, sports events, and other events organised by our social committee.

Would you like to learn more? Great, we'd love to chat. Please reach out for more information and to see if this opportunity is right for you!

Genomics plc is dedicated to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.

Genomics plc politely requests no contact from recruitment agencies. We do not accept speculative CVs from recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them.