Senior Scientist Support

Req ID #: 225584

Madrid, Madrid, ES

Full time

For 75 years, Charles River employees have worked together to assist in the discovery, development and safe manufacture of new drug therapies. When you join our family, you will have a significant impact on the health and well-being of people across the globe. Whether your background is in life sciences, finance, IT, sales or another area, your skills will play an important role in the work we perform. In return, we’ll help you build a career that you can feel passionate about.

**Job Summary**

**Key responsibilities and accountabilities**
- Support in developing analytical methods.
- Register biological material used in Open Lab (OL) experiments.
- Review and archive protocol assays in internal platform.
- Arrange compound and plate requests using the corresponding platforms.
- Request approval for sharing the structures with third parties.
- Coordinate external / internal compounds shipping.
- Create Team Sites for sharing documents with third parties.
- Possibility to provide laboratory support to OL projects.
- Request compound assays in the corresponding platform.

**Job Qualifications**

**Basic Qualifications**
- BSc in Biology (Molecular Biology, Microbiology, Parasitology).
- Drug Discovery experience in High-throughput screening (HTS).
- Medium/high written and spoken English is needed.
- Experience in data analysis tools for HTS assays.

**Preferred Qualifications**
- Working experience with pathogenic biosafety level 3 microorganisms such as _M. tuberculosis and/or Plasmodium falciparum._
- Working experience with cell cultures.

**About Insourcing Solutions**
Charles River Insourcing Solutions℠ can streamline research by delivering operational and cost efficiencies through the strategic insourcing of GMP, GLP and non-GLP research services from discovery through safety assessment. Insourcing Solutions℠ provides you with the ability to maintain control of your facility and expertise while leveraging available space.

**About Charles River**
Charles River is an early-stage contract research organization (CRO). We have built upon our foundation of laboratory animal medicine and science to develop a diverse portfolio of discovery and safety assessment services, both Good Laboratory Practice (GLP) and non-GLP, to support clients from target identification through preclinical development. Charles River also provides a suite of products and services to support our clients’ clinical laboratory testing needs and manufacturing activities. Utilizing this broad portfolio of products and services enables our clients to create a more flexible drug development model, which reduces their costs, enhances their productivity and effectiveness to increase speed to market.

At Charles River, we are passionate about our role in improving the quality of people’s lives. Our mission, our excellent science and our strong sense of purpose guide us in all that we do, and we approach each day with the knowledge that our work helps to improve the health and well-being of many across the globe. We have proudly worked on 80% of the drugs approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the past five years.

We’re committed to providing benefits that elevate your quality of life. Based on your position these may include: bonus/incentives based on performance, 401K, paid time off, stock purchase program, Health and wellness coverage, employee and family wellbeing support programs, and work life balance flexibility.

**Equal Employment Opportunity**
Charles River Laboratories is an Equal Opportunity Employer - all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin, veteran or disability status.