Job ID: 352384578
Job date: 2017-07-09
End Date:
Company : Unilever Country : Role : Research Scientist
Job date: 2017-07-09
End Date:
Company : Unilever Country : Role : Research Scientist
Job Description:
The role sits within Unilever’s Safety and Environmental Assurance Centre (SEAC), which is responsible for carrying out safety assessments of all Unilever products. The role primarily involves the provision of scientific expertise across the fields of informatics, mathematical modelling, bioinformatics, chemi-informatics and systems biology in helping to derive innovative approaches in both our current and new risk assessment methods. Please our Website www.tt21c.org You will be required to work with a range of scientific experts in a number of different disciplines, including biologists, toxicologists, eco-toxicologists, computational chemists and mathematical modellers. You will need to be able to communicate effectively with stakeholders. Job Summary:
The role sits within Unilever’s Safety and Environmental Assurance Centre (SEAC), which is responsible for carrying out safety assessments of all Unilever products. The role primarily involves the provision of scientific expertise across the fields of informatics, mathematical modelling, bioinformatics, chemi-informatics and systems biology in helping to derive innovative approaches in both our current and new risk assessment methods. Please our Website www.tt21c.org You will be required to work with a range of scientific experts in a number of different disciplines, including biologists, toxicologists, eco-toxicologists, computational chemists and mathematical modellers. You will need to be able to communicate effectively with stakeholders. Job Summary:
- Delivery of accurate and high quality data analysis and computational support according to agreed project goals and timescales.
- Defining the appropriate approach and methodology for manipulation, analysis and interpretation of data and ensuring that the analysis is of high quality.
- Actively seeking novel and leading edge methodology in relevant computational fields that could enhance delivery of non-animal risk assessment approaches and integrate within project deliverables.
- Working closely with other scientists across SEAC and Unilever providing expert scientific advice on computational approaches that would be of value.
- Provide training to both expert and non-expert users to ensure novel approaches are embedded within the organisation.
- Working closely with external suppliers and experts in the informatics field.
- Lead designated SEAC projects and or science themes within projects
- Joint responsibility for the design, development and dissemination of user-friendly tools, workflows and databases to a wide group of scientists within SEAC and wider Unilever R&D.
- Joint responsibility for the delivery of scientific input into evolving SEACs strategic direction around computational toxicology.
- Joint responsibility for continued development and maintenance of Unilever network of expertise in Informatics approaches.
- Strong problem solving capability and ability to work autonomously
- Strong technical background with demonstrated programming skills in at least two of the following: Perl, Python, R, Java, PHP,SQL
- Expertise in high content data analysis
- Strong and effective influencing and communication skills
- Ability to lead and motivate others
- Ability to communicate complex concepts to a non-expert audience
- Experience with handling transcriptomics data sets
- Relevant degree in bioinformatics or computational biology or equivalent with significant professional experience in this area
- Experience and expertise with genome alignment, mapping, variant calling, differential expression, annotation, expression profiling and handling omics scale data sets.
- Experience in omics data analysis such as transcriptomics and proteomics
- Experience of applying text analytics techniques to create automated data preparation, exploration, extraction and visualisation of unstructured information
- Understanding of data mining techniques including statistical modelling methods, time series, text mining, optimization and/or information search and retrieval
- Experience in prototyping and applying text analytics algorithm solutions (including natural language processing) for enrichment of meta data
- Demonstrable experience of working with standard bioinformatics tools and databases (e.g. ChEMBL, ArrayExpress, KEGG, Taverna, Pipeline Pilot, Cytoscape etc)
- Experience in database design and handling/accessing diverse biology/chemistry datasets & databases
- Experience of high performance computing
- Experience of working in multidisciplinary teams on research problems
- Experience in creating scripts to mine and integrate data from external sources
- Familiar with machine learning approaches
- Familiar with relational and non-relational databases
- Familiar with LINUX environment and basic systems administration
- Bias for Action
- Building Talent and Teams
- Growth Mindset
- Consumer and Customer Focus
- Accountability & Responsibility
- Data Mining
- Database design
- HPC
- Lunix/Unix
- Machine Learning
- Mathematics
- Modeling
- PHP
- Programing in Python
- Programing Skills
- Programming in Java
- Programming in PERL
- Programming in R
- SQL
- Systems Biology
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Salary: Competitive with Bonus, Pension & Healthcare Location: Colworth Science Park, Sharnbrook, Beds UK Travel: Up to 5% Company Overview: Unilever is a global Fast-Moving Consumer Goods company in the UK and Ireland. We are already on target to achieve our huge ambition to double the size of our business globally whilst reducing our environmental impact. We are growing our business and also doing what is right for our consumers, community and environment. We are developing brands for people’s lives today and for the changing environment tomorrow - making sustainable living commonplace. Working at Unilever means that you get to take part in this exciting journey and work with amazing people who are really passionate about our large portfolio of famous brands. We want to improve billions of lives and you too can join us in making a sustainable difference. APPLICATION PROCESS Online Application >> Face to Face Interview >> Job Offer Please note: As part of the job application, you will be asked to complete a brief online application form. Completion of the form is required in order to be considered. Please allow yourself enough time to complete the application form as when filled out partially or not at all it may adversely affect the progress of your application. Please be aware that you will have to complete the form at once as you will be unable to return to it later. For further information about this position please call: 0800 0284390. Please do not contact this number if you are an agency/third party. This number is strictly for candidates only. Location: United Kingdom-United Kingdom (County level)-Sharnbrook-Colworth Science Park[Click Here to Access the Original Job Post]