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Senior Project Manager – Cellular Therapies
This post is a 3 Years Fixed Term / Secondment position
About the Organisation:
National Services Scotland (NSS) is a national NHS Board operating right at the heart of NHSScotland providing invaluable support and advice at a strategic and operational level. NSS supports customers to deliver their services more efficiently and effectively and we offer shared services on a national scale using best-in-class systems and standards. Our priority is always the same – to improve the health and well-being of the people of Scotland. We do this by working in partnership with colleagues across Health and Social Care to deliver fit for purpose solutions and systems, delivering high quality services that help our stakeholders to free up resources so they can be re-invested into essential services.
The Post:
As a vital part of NHS Scotland, NHS National Services Scotland’s purpose is to support Scotland’s Health. We do this by providing a range of specialised support services that enable NHS Boards to focus their efforts on health improvement and delivering world class patient care.
The Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service (SNBTS) Tissues, Cells & Advanced Therapeutics Directorate undertakes cutting edge research and development of new cell and gene therapies. TCAT also manufacture a range of tissues (eg. bone, heart valves), cells (eg. haematopoietic stem/progenitor cells) and advanced therapies (eg. regenerative macrophages, cytotoxic T-cells) for clinical use. These products are all manufactured in our state-of-the-art clean room facilities according to Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP).
The Candidate:
In support of TCAT’s research, development and manufacturing activities, we offer an exciting opportunity to join TCAT as a Senior Project Manager. The successful candidate will specifically be expected to work with the Head of Operations to manage and develop and deliver a portfolio of projects. The initial focus will be on providing project management support into the Centre for Precision Medicine (see: https://www.ed.ac.uk/regeneration-repair/research/cell-therapy-liver). The post-holder will have opportunities to support additional project translating advanced therapies (including stem cell-based) with external funding and collaborations spanning academic, health service and commercial partners.
Educated to postgraduate level with a background in bio/biomedical sciences, you will have extensive and demonstrable experience of project management, ideally gained within the life sciences sector. You should be used to working with diverse stakeholders and competing priorities whilst delivering multiple projects on time and on budget. Excellent communication skills are required to ensure transparency of resource requirements; progress towards delivery of milestones; and arising issue/risk management among partners. Previous experience of working in a GMP environment and/or with quality management systems will be an advantage.
Location and Working Pattern:
The post will be located within the TCAT Directorate at the Jack Copland Centre on the Heriot Watt Research Park, Edinburgh.
Work pattern - Monday to Friday, 37.5 hours per week.
It is a condition of this employment that you must live and remain a resident within the UK for the post in which you will be employed with NSS.
Benefits:
Our benefits package includes pension scheme, comprehensive range of work life balance policies, occupational health services, learning resource centres and discounted leisure, financial and shopping benefits
Further information:
For an informal discussion on the post, please contact Dr Claire Brady on Claire.Brady@nhs.scot
Closing date for completed applications is 23 May 2023.
Further information on NSS is available from: www.nhsnss.org
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NHS National Services Scotland is an equal opportunities employer and as committed participant in the disability confident scheme, guarantees to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for our vacancies