Senior Bioinformatician, Digital Medicine – Orion Corporation Turku, Southwest Finland, Finland Hybrid
24.9.2022https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/3251358412
About the job
Do you have experience in bioinformatics and have a keen interest in data driven research and development? If you also possess an entrepreneurial mindset and are ready for new challenges in bioinformatics, Orion’s Digital Medicine department is looking forward to hearing from you.
Description Of Position
As the Senior Bioinformatician in the Digital Medicine department you will identify and explore multiple diverse clinical and omics databases and datasets to identify new target candidates for novel treatments in the fields of pain and oncology. You will also help with the on-going discovery and research projects in their everyday objectives and challenges. As part of our computational biology team, you will develop your own methods and pipelines, participating in the overall transformation to a more data driven research and development. You will collaborate heavily with both internal and external functions and partners, and you will routinely work together with our research biologists and projects.
The primary location of the role is in Turku, however, there is some room for alternative working arrangements.
Description Of Unit
We are an agile, entrepreneurial, and international department. Our R&D mission salutes the power of data, science, and new technologies, and aims to help the patients with life threatening illnesses. With us you’ll get to work with a diverse and flexible job description all the way from the initial discovery through to the beginning of clinical trials.
We offer
We offer you highly professional & experienced colleagues and the opportunity to show your talent and challenge yourself with interesting work in a modern multidisciplinary environment.
Generous health and welfare benefits are available, as well as corporate development and training opportunities.
Orion’s Sustainability Agenda sets the guidelines for the future and includes Patient safety as a top priority, Active work for a better environment, Care for well-being professionals, and Ethics at the core of our business.
Requirements
Ideally you are Ph.D. from a suitable field (e.g., biology, bioinformatics, computational biology), and have at least some industry relevant experience in bioinformatics. Experience of the omics principles cancer and/or pain (a common complex genetic disorder) will be a plus.
Also, extensive experience with exploratory data analysis and visualization of research data using e.g. R or Python is required.
You will need to be able to work as part of various teams, and thus good communication and interpersonal skills are needed.
Additional Information
If you are the person we are looking for, please submit your cover letter and CV via the link by 2nd October 2022.
For more information on the Senior Bioinformatician, please contact Sammeli Liikkanen, Director, Digital Medicine, tel. +358 509667466.
Approved medical examination which also includes drug testing is required prior to the employment. We will also carry out a security clearance prior to the employment for the selected person. Orion Corporation operates in more than 30 countries, where we Orionees, 3300 in total, work in all kinds of positions. Among us there are Research Scientists, Laboratory Technicians, Engineers and IT Specialists as well as people working in Production, just to mention some examples. We offer diverse and responsible jobs to our personnel in a truly multi-disciplinary work environment. We encourage people to develop their competences and offer opportunities to affect the job description and creating their own career path at Orion. We are searching for top talents who are ready to share our passion for the work that we do.