Microscopy Platform Head
Microscopy Platform Head
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Job Description
At Roche you can show up as yourself embraced for the unique qualities you bring. Our culture encourages personal expression open dialogue and genuine connections where you are valued accepted and respected for who you are allowing you to thrive both personally and professionally. This is how we aim to prevent stop and cure diseases and ensure everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Join Roche where every voice matters.
The Position
A healthier future. Its what drives us to innovate. To continuously advance science and ensure everyone has access to the healthcare they need today and for generations to come. Creating a world where we all have more time with the people we love.
Thats what makes us Roche.
360 Labs Initiative at a Glance
The 360 Labs are a new capability that is currently being built up within the Pharmaceutical Research and Early Development organization (pRED. The primary mission of this effort is to provide greater access and support for the use of cuttingedge biomedical research technologies by scientists across our discovery portfolio.
The 360 Labs will deliver core scientific technologies expertise and enabling activities as well as facilitate knowledge sharing in close collaboration with our therapeutic areas and functions. Our ambition is to bring to life a thriving workplace environment where your collaborative mindset is as valued as your professional expertise. Our goal is to act as a highly integrated ecosystem supporting research and development working collaboratively and focused on fostering excellence and sustainability. Together these efforts will serve to increase the speed enhance the robustness and improve the sustainability of our exploratory research and early discovery activities.
The Opportunity
We are offering an outstanding opportunity for a highly motivated engaged and dynamic leader to shape the strategy of a new Microscopy Technology Platform. You will serve as a key member of the 360 Labs leadership team working closely with the Global Head to develop a bold vision and strategy to operationalize a cuttingedge Microscopy Technology Platform. You will have a proven track record of engaging with senior leaders and key stakeholders and have a strong background in the life sciences with extensive experience in the application of advanced optical microscopy technologies and image analysis approaches in biomedical research. You will drive the early implementation and growth of the Microscopy Technology Platform and its support of exploratory research and early drug discovery within the pRED organization.
Your Role and Responsibilities
Act as a strategic visionary providing key guidance and oversight in the deployment and application of advanced optical microscopy technologies across pRED;
Evolve and lead a matrix team with purpose collaborating closely with our therapeutic areas and functions to prioritize and implement innovative scientific strategies to explore diseaserelevant hypotheses leveraging quantitative optical microscopy techniques;
Drive the continued evolution of the Microscopy Platform by innovating new approaches leveraging automation to streamline workflows staying up to date with the scientific literature actively engaging with internal and external optical microscopy communities and continuously evaluating new technologies in the microscopy field.
Who you are
A PhD degree in biology chemistry biomedical engineering or a related field with at least 8 years of professional experience in an academic setting and / or pharmaceutical industry / biotech sector with proven effective leadership of an optical microscopyfocused team;
An experienced scientist with both an in depth theoretical and handson knowledge of optical microscopy techniques and commercial as well as opensource image analysis approaches along with their application to exploratory research and early drug discovery. Preference will be given to candidates with an established track record of scientific accomplishments and successful collaborations documented for example by either publications or poster/presentations at conferences or professional society meetings;
Awareness of and the ability to implement novel cuttingedge approaches in quantitative optical microscopy such as widefield confocal (both fixed and livecell) highcontent imaging multiphoton labelfree lightsheet including tissue clearing superresolution (both localisation and pointspread function engineering) as well as a strong awareness of nextgeneration technologies in spatial biology.
In addition to your scientific expertise and critical technical skills we are looking for candidates who are:
Customerfocused with a drive for growth and a questioning mindset. Skilled in creative problemsolving organization and implementing innovative ideas efficiently in a fastpaced research context;
Excellent communicators with a high fluency in English a desire to continuously build a personal network and the ability to thrive in a dynamic inclusive environment which gives you full accountability for your own contributions and development.
Your Location
This position is based in Basel.
Our commitment
Roche commits to recognizing talent and aptitude. We prioritize encouraging and supporting our employees on their personal journeys by providing a safe creative space to help them reflect make decisions and grow in their career.
We are confident that we find the most innovative solutions by gaining different perspectives asking and answering hard questions and challenging the status quo. Roche embraces diversity and equal opportunity in a serious yet enthusiastic way; we are devoted to building a team that represents a range of backgrounds perspectives and skills. The more inclusive we are the better our work will be.
Who we are
A healthier future drives us to innovate. Together more than 100000 employees across the globe are dedicated to advance science ensuring everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Our efforts result in more than 26 million people treated with our medicines and over 30 billion tests conducted using our Diagnostics products. We empower each other to explore new possibilities foster creativity and keep our ambitions high so we can deliver lifechanging healthcare solutions that make a global impact.
Lets build a healthier future together.
Basel is the headquarters of the Roche Group and one of its most important centres of pharmaceutical research. Over 10700 employees from over 100 countries come together at our Basel/Kaiseraugst site which is one of Roches largest sites. Read more.
Besides extensive development and training opportunities we offer flexible working options 18 weeks of maternity leave and 10 weeks of gender independent partnership leave. Our employees also benefit from multiple services on site such as childcare facilities medical services restaurants and cafeterias as well as various employee events.
Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Employment Type
Full-Time
