Bioinformatics Manager

Job Description:
Bioinformatics team leader for company in Scotland. Hands-on biological data analysis & project management

Your new role:

• You will be managing a team of bioinformaticians, providing technical leadership, training and oversight; working on projects for multiple clients.
• As well as people management, you will be working closely with clients to analyse large scale complex data sets from biological / healthcare sources, taking responsibility on multiple projects across areas as varied as microbiome work, plant genomics and patient biological data.

Main responsibilities will include:

• Leading a team of 3-4 bioinformaticians;
• Providing training and development, as well as technical insight on projects;
• Discussing project scope and focus with clients;
• Data analysis, especially of NGS and wider genomic data sets, eg WGS or RNA-Seq, proteomic or metabolomics data;
• Liaising with stakeholders, collaborating partners and customers;
• Hands-on pipeline management and optimisation for genomic data analysis;
• Programming in R and/or Python;
• Data interpretation; and
• Working across multiple concurrent projects.

What you'll need to succeed:

As well as excellent communication, problem solving and team-working skills, you should have:

• A BSc / MSc (or equivalent) in statistics, mathematics, bioinformatics, computer science or life sciences, with higher degrees (eg PhD) preferred;
• Team leadership experience, ideally including direct line management of a small team of bioinformaticians / data scientists;
• Statistical analysis of data sets, ideally with pharmaceutical, healthcare or biological data, eg NGS, WGS, Exome, genome, proteome, metabolome, microbiome or transcriptome;
• Good hands-on programming skills, ideally with R, although skills with languages such as Python, Perl, Matlab, C/C++, Java, or Perl would also be useful;
• Experience with NGS or other genomic analysis work, eg Exome, RNA-Seq, ChIP-Seq or similar;
• A track record of working with databases, ideally biological, and using languages such as SQL to write queries; and
• Data visualisation and analysis.

Candidates who have excellent technical abilities, alongside project management experience and are looking to make the step up to line management are also encouraged to apply.

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Requeriments :

• Technical Bachelor

Skills :

• genomic
• Next Generation Sequencing
• Programing in C
• Programing in C++
• Programing in Python
• Programing Skills
• Programming in Java
• Programming in Matlab
• Programming in PERL
• Programming in R
• RNA-seq
• SQL
• Statistics

Areas :

• Bioinformatics

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Additional Info:
Your new company :

Is a successful and growing bioinformatics company looking to add several new bioinformaticians to their team, at both scientist and team leader/manager level. The company is based in the Central Belt area of Scotland and has grown significantly over the last couple of years.

What you'll get in return :

The chance to lead a team working on a variety of innovative bioinformatics projects for genomic, proteomic and other biological analysis, as well as interact with a wide range of clients.

You'll also have excellent development and progression opportunities, and a great corporate atmosphere.

What you need to do now:

If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call me on 0203 465 0057.

If this job isn't quite right for you but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion on your career, as there are multiple statistical, data science and bioinformatics positions available.

Your new company :

Is a successful and growing bioinformatics company looking to add several new bioinformaticians to their team, at both scientist and team leader/manager level. The company is based in the Central Belt area of Scotland and has grown significantly over the last couple of years.

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