Job Description

Overview

The Mass Detection portfolio group provides globally recognized scientific leadership in the area of mass detection measurement in the life, food, and materials sciences. We use that understanding to direct the development of innovative, workflow-based products and solutions, enabling our customers to solve critical analytical challenges and advance scientific understanding.

A Senior Scientist in the Routine Mass Detection group is responsible for proactively providing expert scientific contribution which impacts product development and business outcomes, and positions Waters as the leading specialty measurement company. This includes providing technical and scientific input in the development of new science, technologies, methods, practices, and ways of working, as well as generation and presentation of scientific content using Waters\xe2\x80\x99 mass detection product portfolio to support business activities and new product development.

There is an opportunity to travel with up to 20% of your time spent overseas for pre and post-sales support, attending relevant scientific meetings and marketing events.

Responsibilities

Accountability:

• Applies multi-disciplinary advanced knowledge across scientific disciplines
• Works in a highly independent manner with little guidance from higher level scientist/manager
• Applies deep understanding of market and competition to achieve objectives.

Decision Making/Problem Solving:

• Manages complex problems and drives solutions from beginning to end
• Independently analyses and interprets data and results
• Maintain state-of-art knowledge on techniques and theory
• Offer guidance and solutions to scientific challenges

Interpersonal Skills/Collaboration:

• Builds relationships across the company and with customers; contribute as scientific expert to strategies with marketing and across global products
• Interface across the organisation to influence and shape technology roadmaps

Creativity & Innovation /Initiative:

• Develop design of experiments independently and guide others
• Assimilate knowledge and contribute novel ideas for IP filing
• Develop and validate creative and unconventional solutions

Customer Focus /Quality:

• Support customers as partners and advise with deep understanding of needs
• Provide scientific leadership to support the Routine Mass Detection business segment and drive revenue growth
• Become a credible source for training and customer support, and utilise this effectively with internal and external customers
• Proactively engage and collaborate with KOL\xe2\x80\x99s

Productivity /Managing for Results:

• Provides high level direction (identify high level problems)
• Manages multiple projects/problems
• Identify, develop, and champion new ideas or fields of research
• Routinely produces collateral and publishes papers.

Qualifications

• Degree in relevant scientific discipline, higher degree preferred
• Industrial experience such as pharmaceutical industry, QA/QC, life science, food & environmental, contract testing laboratories
• Advance scientific knowledge of field/drivers/trends/technology with a focus on single quadrupole mass spectrometry (ex: LC-MS, GC-MS, ICP-MS)
• Knowledge likely to extend across multiple related disciplines.

In addition to salary, we work flexibly and provide 25 days holidays, excellent family friendly benefits such as attractive employer pension contribution, life assurance, income protection and private medical. With Waters, there are plenty of opportunities for you to grow, develop and contribute.

We\'re actively building diverse teams and welcome applications from everyone. But simply having a diverse workforce is not enough. We aim to build an inclusive environment, where everyone can contribute their best work and develop to their full potential. We celebrate our differences and recognise the importance of teams reflecting the communities they serve.

We can make reasonable adjustments to our interview process according to your needs. We are proud to offer our employees the opportunity, where we can, to work flexibly. Please don\xe2\x80\x99t hesitate to ask during the recruitment process around hybrid working and flexibility; we\xe2\x80\x99ll do our best to support you.

Company Description

Waters Corporation (NYSE: WAT), the world\'s leading specialty measurement company, has pioneered chromatography, mass spectrometry and thermal analysis innovations serving the life, materials, and food sciences for more than 60 years. With more than 7,000 employees worldwide, Waters operates directly in 35 countries, including 15 manufacturing facilities, with products available in more than 100 countries. Our team focuses on creating business advantages for laboratory-dependent organizations to enable significant advancement in healthcare delivery, environmental management, food safety, and water quality.

Working at Waters enables our employees to unlock the potential of their careers. Our global team is driven by purpose. We strive to be better, learn and improve every day in everything we do. We\xe2\x80\x99re the problem solvers and innovators that aren\xe2\x80\x99t afraid to take risks to transform the world of human health and well-being. We\xe2\x80\x99re all in it together delivering benefit as one to provide the insights needed today in order to solve the challenges of tomorrow.

Diversity and inclusion are fundamental to our core values at Waters Corporation. It is our responsibility to actively implement programs and practices to drive inclusive behavior and increase diversity across the organization. We are united by diversity and thrive on it for the benefit of our employees, our products, our customers and our community. Waters is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender identity or protected Veteran status.

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