Bioinformatics Project Manager, Genevia Technologies Oy, Tampere, Finland

Genevia Technologies´ Production Team is looking for a Bioinformatics Project Manager who is a molecular biologist with a passion for providing bioinformatics services to research groups in the academic and industry sectors.

About the role

“We want to grow our team with the best talent, people who want to keep developing themselves continuously. Through our customers, our employees get to see and do things that even the university environment cannot provide. If you want to see what working at the sharpest edge of bioinformatics and life sciences looks like, come work with us,” says Genevia’s Business Development Director Klaus Breitholtz.

You are offered

• Exceptional opportunity to gain bioinformatician experience that is hard to find elsewhere
  
  
• Multicultural team and great colleagues
  
  
• Company with a small hierarchy and good work life balance
  
  
• Good promotion opportunities
  
  
• Modern office space with a sauna and big terrace
  
  

Job duties

As a Bioinformatics Project Manager, you work in close cooperation with professionals from several fields. You are responsible for the everyday management of projects, including scheduling, and planning the scientific content of the projects together with the customers and Genevia’s tech team. You also ensures that work tasks are completed on schedule and everyone has an appropriate workload for each day. Communicating with customers and developing the operational practices of the company is also an important part of your duties.

As a Bioinformatics Project Manager, your most important responsibilities are:

• Planning the required bioinformatics workflow with clients
  
  
• Specifying analysis tasks to production bioinformaticians together with bioinformatics experts
  
  
• Interpreting and reporting analysis results to the client’s team, and an assortment of other client-facing tasks
  
  

You understand the client’s scientific goals and you are able to communicate with bioinformaticians to translate those goals into detailed analysis tasks while also balancing available internal resources, budget and client expectations.

We are looking for

• Master degree in Bioinformatics, Biomedical Engineering or Molecular biology (PhD is seen as advantage)
  
  
• A solid understanding of bioinformatics, biotechnological methodology and all the different application areas ranging from biomedical research to botany, omics data types and typical analysis workflows
  
  
• Strong communication skills – you are able to talk to all kinds of researchers, both within your own team and on the customer’s side.
  
  
• Enthusiasm to learn new biology and technology, and develop your expertise and help the customer succeed in their research
  
  

Previous work experience

The position would be ideal for a molecular biologist who wants to work in science management and communication, but also to remain firmly within the research realm of life sciences.

• You are familiar with standard computational methods for omics data analysis, such as how to ascertain the quality of an experiment, statistical testing, as well as the specialized computational tools of the trade, such as genome alignment, genome assembly and annotation, SNP calling, peak calling and pathway analysis.
  
  
• Genevia’s clients are working in different fields, from microbiology, to plants and animals, to biomedical applications, such as immunology or cancer. We don’t expect that you are an expert in all areas, but you will have enough base understanding to be able to quickly grasp the essence of the clients’ research questions.
  
  
• If you have work experience in publishing molecular biology research with a bioinformatics component, or have worked in a service core laboratory, for example, you are already quite familiar with the responsibilities.
  
  

As a person you are:

• Result-oriented and detail-oriented
  
  
• Able to see the big picture and you enjoy the role as a coordinator
  
  

Other information

• Start: August or according to an agreement
  
  
• Work extent: Permanent position
  
  
• Location: Hämeenkatu 14, 33100 Tampere, Finland
  
  
• Contact information: This recruitment process is conducted by Academic Work. All questions regarding the position is handled by Academic Work
  
  

Our selection process is continuous, and the advert may close before the recruitment process is completed if we have moved forward to the screening or interview phase.

Client information

Genevia Technologies is a privately held Finnish bioinformatics company established in 2011 in Tampere, Finland. It was founded by a team of bioinformaticians with years of experience in collaborating with molecular biology groups.