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Job description

Are you an experienced scientist with great expertise in Next Generation Sequencing and Molecular Biology? We have an opening suitable for you!

Right now, we are looking for a passionate and hard-working Molecular Biologist with NGS skills to join our NGS & Transcriptomics function within the Centre of Genomic Research Department at AstraZeneca in Gothenburg, as one of our group members is going on parental leave. You will contribute with your expertise in applying molecular biology and NGS to progress drug development pipelines and disease/biology understanding.

What you will do:

This is a hands-on laboratory-based role to effectively support and deliver various clinical and preclinical projects across multiple diseases, species and drug modalities.

Our team is a collaborative group, and you will engage in the supervision and mentorship of other scientists, ensuring that methods run expertly and accurately, developing and guiding the set-up of new techniques. Included in the role is also to nurture strong collaborative relationships with the project investigators, key partners, and data scientists to ensure the smooth running of projects.

This is a consultant assignment with Randstad Life Sciences. Randstad Life Sciences is specialized in competences within Life Science. As a consultant you get a competitive salary, benefits and collective agreements. Your consultant manager ensures that you get varying and developing assignments at different companies, within different industries. At Randstad Life Sciences, your personal development is in focus, and you are offered a large network and many social activities.

Deadline 2026-01-30 - the selection process and interviews will be ongoing, so please apply as soon as possible!

Responsibilities

In this role you will:

• Utilize prior practical laboratory experience in transcriptomics data generation with a strong emphasis on automation technologies.
• Contribute to planning and execution of projects involving new omics technologies.
• Provide experimental support to project teams.
• Ensure compliance with Safety, Health, and Environmental regulations as well as AstraZeneca’s corporate responsibility policies.
• Develop a comprehensive understanding of the pharmaceutical industry and identify opportunities for new business initiatives.
• Collaborate with a wide range of scientists from different backgrounds to ensure the highest quality of research.
• Develop and validate cutting edge protocols for the simplification of multiomic research.

Why AstraZeneca?

At AstraZeneca, we are driven by our desire to understand and reveal new insights. We are free from fear of failure, free to ask the right questions, make bold decisions, and dig deep into the biology of complex diseases. We are committed to making an impact on patients' lives by improving patient access to healthcare globally. Our values guide everything we do at AstraZeneca. They power our belief in What Science Can Do - a belief in its potential to redefine what's possible.

So, what’s next? If this sounds like your next challenge – please don’t hesitate to apply!

Qualifications

Essential for the role:

• Ph.D. degree or MSc with corresponding experience in a relevant scientific discipline.
• Hands on lab-based experience in utilizing advanced molecular biology RNA-sequencing techniques.
• Experience covering all relevant aspects from hypothesis generation, through experimental design and execution, large scale RNA and DNA extraction, sample and library preparation, sequencing, data handling, post sequencing QC and trouble shooting.

You should also have the ability to communicate, interact and collaborate with your direct team members, as well as across our global AZ functions and fields. Alongside this, our ideal candidate enjoys working in an innovative, proactive, forward-thinking, project-focused and goal-oriented way and shares our excitement about the molecular biology RNA-sequencing techniques.

Highly desirable for the role:

• Experience using laboratory automation / liquid handling systems.
• Hands-on laboratory experience running NGS platforms (Illumina, Oxford Nanopore etc).
• Sample Tracking by LIMS systems.

About the company

Randstad

At Randstad, we see the possible in people. With business all over Sweden and in all areas of expertise, we help people find work that feels good, where they get the opportunity to develop and realize their true potential.

With close to 600 000 employees in 38 countries, Randstad is the global leader in the HR services industry. Our mission is to become the world’s most valued working life partner. By combining our passion for people with the power of today’s technology, we support people and organizations in realizing their true potential. We call it Human Forward.