Nestlé Institute of Food Safety & Analytical Sciences

Position Snapshot

Location: Nestlé Research, Lausanne, Switzerland
Institute: Nestlé Institute of Food Safety & Analytical Sciences
Company: Société des Produits Nestlé S.A.
Act. Rate: Full-Time
Type of contract: Temporary contract, 24 months

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What we offer at Nestlé

Genuine opportunities for career and personal development
Modern “smart office” locations providing agile & collaborative workspaces
Dynamic international working environment
Attractive additional benefits

Position Summary

Nestlé Research is based in Lausanne, Switzerland, employs approximately 1000 people and is comprised of five Nestlé Institutes: Food Sciences, Health Sciences, Food Safety & Analytical Sciences, Packaging Sciences, and Agricultural Sciences. For an overview of our research activities follow this link or read more about Nestlé Research at our website. Please follow us on Nestlé R&D on LinkedIn.

Learn more about the Institute of Food Safety & Analytical Sciences here.

We are looking for an Associate Specialist Bioinformatics in Microbial Genomics, to support the Food Safety Bioinformatics and Statistics groups in their research strategy. In this role, you will deliver bioinformatics and microbial genomics expertise (bacteria and yeast) to characterize products and ingredients for product development and food safety.

We offer a dynamic, inclusive, and international working environment with many opportunities across different companies, functions, and regions. Don’t miss the opportunity to join us and work with different teams in an agile and diverse context.

A Day in the Life of an Associate Specialist Bioinformatics

• Perform bioinformatics/genomics analysis for research studies applied to factory environment/product pathogen contaminations and to business strategic product development using, for example, variant calling, metagenomics and phenotypic characterization approaches
• Identify and evaluate the latest bioinformatics pipelines and participate in the design, development and improvement of specific bioinformatics analysis workflows under Linux environment
• Support/coach microbiologists in the use of genomic data through fit-for-purpose software

What will make you successful

• MSc or PhD in Life Sciences in microbial genomics, with a specialization in Bioinformatics or Computer science
• Minimum 2 years of professional experience in bioinformatics after graduation
• Strong programming/scripting capabilities (i.e. Python, R, Bash, Awk…) under Linux environment
• Work experience with next generation sequencing data is mandatory (short and long read sequencing technologies)
• Ability to collaborate in cross-disciplinary teams and multicultural environment
• Experience in database design & management is an asset
• Fluent in English

At Nestlé, we want to help shape a better and healthier world, inspire people to live healthier lives and deliver impact at a scale and pace that makes a difference. We do this by fostering a diverse, friendly, supportive, and collaborative environment, that creates positive disruption, embraces innovation, and empowers people and teams to win.
We aim to hire friendly, respectful, inspiring people who care about the people’s lives that we touch every single day.
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