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Scientist Product & Method Development (m/f/d)

Welcome at CENTOGENE!

CENTOGENE’s mission is to provide data-driven, life-changing answers to patients, physicians, and pharma companies for rare and neurodegenerative diseases. We integrate multiomic technologies with the CENTOGENE Biodatabank – providing dimensional analysis to guide the next generation of precision medicine. Our unique approach enables rapid and reliable diagnosis for patients, supports a more precise physician understanding of disease states, and accelerates and de-risks targeted pharma drug discovery, development, and commercialization.

How do we do this? By bringing together more than 400 individuals from 50 different countries at our HQ in Rostock, Germany, as well as our offices in Berlin, Belgrade, and laboratory facilities in Cambridge, MA. Our employees are medical experts, scientists, IT professionals, bioinformaticians, technicians, researchers, project managers, and many more – and are all passionate about supporting our company vision: A world healed of all rare and neurodegenerative diseases.

Does this sound like you? If it does, we’d love to hear from you!

Your tasks and responsibilities:

Working within the Product & Method Development Department
Driving and managing the testing, validation
Releasing of new products/methods into production, with special focus on qPCR-related assays and Sanger Sequencing
Interacting with multi-disciplinary teams; interdepartmental project coordination and lead
Driving innovation and taking responsibility in optimizing and developing (new) products in the molecular diagnostic field together with your and other teams at CENTOGENE - according to the needs of the production departments and ideally while increasing the level of automation

You have the following skills and qualifications:

Academic degree in Molecular Biology
Background in the field of human genetics desired
Scientific background in Sanger Sequencing and Deletion/Duplication Analysis
Experience in NGS and/or large data processing (e.g., via R) is a plus
First experience in process and project management, and strong desire to develop new assays and workflows with a clear implementation goal
Highly organized and able to deliver projects within agreed timeframes
Time management skills as well as experience in scientific writing
Strive for improving processes, embracing change and doing better next time
Communication in English is required, German is desirable

Those advantages are waiting for you at CENTOGENE:

Talents are individually supported by internal and external trainings
An international career in a multicultural environment
Regular company events form us as one team
In house yoga classes, back exercises and a fitness area are available for free
Bike leasing or job tickets allow an environmentally friendly and reasonable travel to work
In case of language barriers we offer German and English classes as well as relocation support to help you get going
Precaution and financial protection guaranteed by company pension scheme

Applications from severely disabled people with appropriate suitability are explicitly welcome. Severely disabled applicants and equivalent status are given preferential consideration in the event of equal qualification.

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Make CENTOGENE your next career move

For those who embark on a career with CENTOGENE, they’ll enjoy an exciting, dynamic, entrepreneurial and extremely fast-paced environment. Working alongside dedicated colleagues, CENTOGENE employees enjoy other benefits including upskilling from a dedicated training department, yoga classes, company-sponsored bicycle leasing, German language classes, and new state-of-the-art premises conveniently located featuring roof terraces and an in-house fitness center. For employees new to Rostock we’ll also support on finding local housing.

Who we are

CENTOGENE is a rare disease company focused on transforming clinical, genetic, and biochemical data into medical solutions for patients. We are focused on bringing rationality to treatment decisions and accelerating the development of new orphan drugs by using our knowledge of the global rare disease market, including its epidemiological and clinical heterogeneity and our innovative biomarkers.

As one of the largest rare disease companies worldwide, CENTOGENE is dedicated to transforming the science of genetic information into solutions and hope for patients with rare diseases and their families.