PROJECT MANAGER - ALTEN LIFE SCIENCE

We are now looking for a project manager on behalf of one of our customers working within innovative discovery services in the areas of chronic pain, neuropsychiatry and neurodegeneration. The position is for a project manager having experience from managing projects within the pharmaceutical and/or biotech industry. Ideally, the candidate should have a background within neuroscience or neurobiology. The employment offers an exciting opportunity to provide leadership in the company´s ongoing customer projects within neurodegeneration and chronic pain.

The role
This is a leadership position, where responsibility will be to plan and manage projects based on client requests, and ensure that projects are executed in time according to the planning. The company is a matrix organization meaning that the applicant will work with various members of the operations team depending on the type of project. Furthermore, the applicant will manage all client communication during the course of the project, excellent collaborative and communicative skills are therefore required.

What we offer you at ALTEN
Every employee is equally valuable in the success of ALTEN! We are driven by making people grow and develop, which is why we offer you the opportunity to work with what you are truly passionate about. At ALTEN, we have a broad range of assignments at most of the leading companies in Sweden in several different sectors, to make it possible for your wishes to come true. We offer both national and international opportunities and together with your coaching manager, you build your career path so you constantly are able to develop and achieve your goals and dreams!

As a consultant at ALTEN, you will get the genuine team feeling at your assignment but also a wonderful togetherness at ALTEN. Through our different internal networks, such as ALTEN Sports, Women@ALTEN and ALTEN Innovation you will get the opportunity to drive topics and activities that are close to your heart, together with your colleagues. All activities are of course optional. Work life balance is our top priority. We also have a collective agreement and other benefits like Pension, Insurances and Wellness grants.

We believe in growing together

Requirements
•  A PhD or MSc in neuroscience, pharmacology, biomedicine, biology or equivalent discipline

•  Pharmaceutical or biotechnology industry project management experience working in matrixed drug discovery project teams

• Comfortable with working on and prioritizing multiple projects

 

Preferred experience/requirements
• Prior working experience with neurodegenerative or neuroinflammatory diseases

• Experience from using high-content cellular imaging techniques as well as genetic modifiers (e.g., CRISPR, shRNA) and/or genomic-scale gene expression and data analysis technologies.

• Experience from assay development, screening and/or pharmacology using cell-based systems, preferably primary- or stem-cell based systems

• Fluency in both spoken and written Swedish and English

 

About ALTEN
ALTEN is a consulting company that develops and delivers expertise for world-leading companies with consultants in technology, IT and biochemistry. We are located in over 25 countries, have our headquarter in Paris and have more than 33,000 employees, of which 88 percent are engineers. In Sweden, we have over 1,700 employees and work from offices in twelve locations. Our clients are found in industries such as Automotive, Energy, Telecom, Industry, Aerospace & Defence and Life Science, where our consultants operate throughout the product development chain.

Welcome to read more about us at alten.se.