Scientific Proposal Writer 100%
About us
Solvias is an internationally recognized provider of integrated solutions for contract research, development and manufacturing. The company offers a broad range of services and solutions for the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device, cosmetics, cell and gene therapy industries. Headquartered near Basel, Switzerland, around 800 highly skilled employees pride themselves on putting science at the heart of customer care to bring safer and better products to market faster.
Are you ready to support our growth journey and do you want to be part of a familial and future-oriented company? We are looking for personalities who feel comfortable at the interface between commercial activities, project management and scientific services. If that sounds promising to you, then we think it's time we got to know each other - we look forward to meeting you.
Your tasks
- Grasp and define the scope of (bio)pharmaceutical projects (RFQ, RFPs) regarding the analytical needs in each phase of the drug development process of our customers
- Support Sales and Customer Project Leaders in the buying phase and ensure technical input from SMEs from the lab operations, where needed
- Evaluation and preparation of the technical aspects of the bids
- Coordinate the efficient planning and pricing of large projects using organizational, planning, financial and scientific skills
- Customer communication and the ability to understand and translate the customer’s needs into a proposal/RFP
- Proposal qualification and generation
Requirements
- Great communication skills and the ability to bring people together to make decisions, gain input and obtain operational support in qualification of the opportunity
- Commercial awareness; speed is key initially to be able to progress discussion with the customer
- Scientific experience and the eagerness to deeply understand the the work that is performed by Solvias
- Thorough understanding of analytical packages applied on different biopharmaceutical modalities throughout the development cycle
- Flexibility to adapt to varying requirements for different customers
- Flexible work models such as part-time and remote work
- Minimum 28.5 vacation days
- Monthly child allowance above the Swiss minimum
- Voluntary monthly family allowance
- Various pension fund solutions
- Daily allowance insurance and non-occupational accident fees paid by Solvias
- Reka cheques
- Commuter contribution for using public transport
- Contribution to German and English language courses
- Employee discount programs for fitness, insurance, retail and more
- Onsite canteen, free coffee and tea