Associate Specialist in New Approach Methodologies

☞ Nestlé

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Update day: 29-03-2024

Location: Lausanne Vaud VD

Category: R & D Quality Assurance / Quality Control Other

Industry: Food Beverage Services Beverage Manufacturing Manufacturing

Job type: Full-time

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Location: Nestlé Research, Lausanne, Switzerland

Company: Société des Produits Nestlé S.A.

Act. Rate: Full-Time Act. Rate 100%

Type of contract: Permanent contract

What We Offer At Nestlé

Flexible work policies in terms of core hours and working from home. Please talk to us during the recruitment process about what flexibility could look like for you!

Genuine opportunities for career and personal development

Modern “smart office” locations providing agile & collaborative workspaces

Dynamic international working environment

Position Summary

Attractive additional benefits

Nestlé Research is based in Lausanne, Switzerland, employs approximately 1000 people and is comprised of five Nestlé Institutes: Material Sciences; Health Sciences, Food Safety & Analytical Sciences, Packaging Sciences and Agriculture Sciences. Please have a tour of our facilities using this link or read more about Nestlé Research at our website.

As an “Associate Specialist in New Approach Methodologies”, you will develop research and testing strategies to integrate novel alternative methodologies into the safety evaluation of products and ingredients, in order to improve chemical safety-based decision making in Nestlé R&D projects from inception through all stages of development.

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 a Specialist Food Safety
  • Safety evaluations of novel products and ingredients to support the ’safety by design’ approach in R&D projects
  • Contribute to/advise on the integration of New Approach Methodologies (NAMs, e.g. ADME and PBPK modeling) and Next Generation Risk Assessment (NGRA) approaches in the safety by design process
  • Lead research on the applicability of NAMs to contribute to the safety assessment of new ingredients with limited safety information. This includes the planning, management and results interpretation of external activities with CROs, academia, industries etc.
  • Develop strategies to assess the feasibility and integration of NAMs and NGRA into food safety and risk assessment. Integration with in vitro/in silico/in vivo toxicology results
  • Develop tools and data in the domain of food risk assessment through research projects and contributions to expert groups
  • Actively participate in internal and external expert networks and projects to promote cross-fertilization between industry, academia, CROs and other relevant entities
  • Coach and guide colleagues and younger project team members in the area of expertise

What Will Make You Successful
  • Master degree or PhD in Natural Sciences or related field with a link to New Approach Methodologies
  • Knowledge in toxicology and standard risk assessment of chemicals (basics in regulatory toxicology)
  • Strong experience and exposure to NAMs, preferably hands-on experience with tools for ADME and PBPK modeling, and NGRA approaches
  • Exposure to alternatives to animal testing (in vitro/in silico approaches)
  • Strength in communication (written and oral), transversal collaboration/cooperation and networking
  • Some experience in medicinal chemistry and/or pharmaceutical product development will be a plus
  • Agility and openness to change in a fast-evolving field
  • Fluent in English
  • Strong commitment to consumer safety
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.

Be a force for good. Join Nestlé and visit us on www.nestle.com.
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Deadline: 13-05-2024

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