Come join our growing and dynamic team! In this role, you will lead high‑impact drug discovery programs from target validation through candidate selection, translating cutting‑edge science into clinical‑ready compounds.You’ll bring a strong track record of successfully advancing compounds into clinical development, pairing deep scientific expertise with strategic vision and decisive leadership. Working across Oncology, Inflammation, Neuroscience, Metabolism, and Infectious Diseases, you will play a pivotal role in advancing a diverse and growing portfolio of client-driven programs.As a central driver of DiscoveryOne® integrated drug discovery projects, you will build and lead dynamic, cross‑functional project teams—uniting Eurofins Discovery scientists with our client partners. By harnessing the full breadth of Eurofins Discovery capabilities, you will design, plan, and execute end‑to‑end discovery strategies that deliver meaningful results for our clients—and ultimately, for patients.Applicants should have demonstrated experience delivering compounds or biologics to clinical candidate nomination, IND-enabling development, or clinical-stage progression.Essential Duties and Responsibilities:Work with the Business Development team to consult with the client as to their requirements, research, help prepare and deliver client integrated drug discovery proposals and IND-enabling proposals. This includes designing screening cascade/work flows – requiring interaction with client, BL key stakeholders and key experts from sites within Eurofins Discovery including pricing team.Drive the progress of projects and activities across the relevant sites to ensure timely delivery of data, project milestones and productive relationships with clients.Interpret integrated discovery data to enable swift decision making, identify and avoid future risks to enable achievement of timelines, budgets or milestones and support the project team in reaching satisfactory solutions to the clients.Act as the key scientific contact in regular communications with client’s project.Develop resourcing and budget plans to meet client needsDevelop and maintain an understanding of Eurofins Discovery capabilities and capacity and the wider capabilities of Eurofins Biopharma ServicesCommunicate project status and issues to the management and other stakeholders through meetings and key documents (program timelines, budget breakdowns, vendor management, resourcing etc.)Interact with clients, industry peers, suppliers as required.  Including customer visits for project meetings and client visits in support of business development.Prepare and facilitate the post-project evaluation - ensure lessons learned are shared/implemented across projects and stakeholders as needed, participate in continuous improvement activities.Desirable: Provide scientific and strategic guidance to clients during the IND-enabling stage, helping them define appropriate study packages, interpret multidisciplinary data, identify critical gaps and risks, design of integrated proposals, coordination of cross-functional activities and make evidence-based decisions required to progress compounds toward IND submission.
