8 Research And Development jobs in Oxfordshire
Research And Development Scientist
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Are you an experienced Research Scientist who’s equally comfortable in the lab and in front of a client?
We’re working with a small but globally connected business that’s doing fascinating work at the cutting edge of food ingredient innovation. They’re looking for a Senior Research Scientist to join the team, someone who’s equally comfortable in the lab and in front of a client.
This is a hands-on R&D role with a commercial twist. Alongside the technical work, you’ll be supporting the Head of R&D in customer meetings, conferences, presentations and representing the science behind the product to senior stakeholders at some of the biggest names in the food industry.
You’ll also play a big part in driving forward exciting, meaningful projects. This isn’t a place where work gets done for the sake of it. Everything is focused, collaborative, and part of a bigger mission.
What you’ll be doing:
- Developing novel ingredient solutions tailored to real industry challenges
- Using analytical techniques (HPLC, GC-MS, UV-vis, etc.) to test, improve, and report on new applications
- Working closely with internal colleagues and external partners to share knowledge and move things forward
- Representing the R&D function in customer-facing settings, from boardrooms to trade shows
- Coaching and supporting colleagues, without managing a team
- Contributing to IP and patent activity, and staying sharp on the science that underpins the commercial offer
What you’ll bring:
- A Master’s degree or PhD in Food Science, Chemistry, Biotechnology, or something similar
- Experience working in a commercial or academic lab (5+ years)
- Strong understanding of specialist food ingredients and their applications in food
- Analytical expertise with methods such as HPLC, GC-MS, UV-vis
- A mix of scientific rigour and commercial curiosity, you're as happy discussing data as you are explaining its value to a CEO
- A collaborative mindset, with a proactive, solutions-focused approach
Why this role?
The business is small and flat-structured, which means you won’t get lost in hierarchy or red tape. You’ll get to shape your own role (within reason), be trusted to make a difference, and work on some genuinely exciting technical challenges.
If you’re someone who’s excited by science and by the idea of seeing your work in action, influencing products, customers, and innovation, this is a rare opportunity to do both.
Next Steps
Sounds like your kind of role? Send your CV quoting PR/013141 and let’s have a chat about your future.
Applicants must be based in the UK with full working rights.
Due to high application volumes, if you don’t hear from us within a week, unfortunately, your application hasn’t been successful this time.
Product Development Technologist
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Are you a passionate Product Developer with a background in the food manufacturing industry?
Are you keen to learn and develop great tasting products?
If you answered yes to both of those questions. What are you waiting for! Apply for this role.
Essential Duties:
- Running product factory trials
- Supporting development chefs
- Presenting recipe samples to Commercial and Marketing teams
- Bringing creativity and ideas to development sessions
The Business:
- Champions for natural food on a mission to revolutionise the way people eat.
- Forward thinking advocates for sustainability
- "on the pulse" attitude to food innovation
Required qualifications and expereience:
- Full valid UK driving licence
- A fantastic attitude to learning and development
Want to know more? Apply now!
For an informal chat about the role in more detail give me a call on (phone number removed) or email me - (url removed)
Product Development Technologist
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Are you a passionate Product Developer with a background in the food manufacturing industry?
Are you keen to learn and develop great tasting products?
If you answered yes to both of those questions. What are you waiting for! Apply for this role.
Essential Duties:
- Running product factory trials
- Supporting development chefs
- Presenting recipe samples to Commercial and Marketing teams
- Bringing creativity and ideas to development sessions
The Business:
- Champions for natural food on a mission to revolutionise the way people eat.
- Forward thinking advocates for sustainability
- "on the pulse" attitude to food innovation
Required qualifications and expereience:
- Full valid UK driving licence
- A fantastic attitude to learning and development
Want to know more? Apply now!
For an informal chat about the role in more detail give me a call on (phone number removed) or email me - (url removed)
New Product Development Engineer
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The Job
The Company :
- p>A leading innovator in heating and renewable HVAC solutions, known for developing products that combine efficiency, quality, and ease of installation.
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Almost 40 years of expertise in creating award-winning heating systems, including oil-fired condensing boilers, heat pumps and cutting-edge renewable products.
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Focused on developing solutions that address rising fuel costs while supporting environmental sustainability.
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Reputation for designing robust, high-performance products that are simple to maintain and install.
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Strong commitment to ongoing product innovation, with a track record of industry awards for technology and service excellence.
Benefits of the New Product Development Engineer:
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Competitive package including laptop and mobile
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23 Days holiday plus bank holidays
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Contributory pension scheme
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Exciting opportunity to shape and expand a newly created technical role
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Career progression with potential to lead and grow a technical team over time
£60k Basic Salary
The Role of the New Product Development Engineer:
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Based in the office, with the option of remote working 1 day a week, focusing on new product development for heating systems.
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Identifying and sourcing market-ready components or “bolt-on” solutions to enhance existing heating, heat pump systems.
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Evaluating products against criteria such as efficiency, noise levels, cost, and ease of installation.
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Collaborating closely with technical sales, procurement, buyers, and technical authors to deliver effective solutions.
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Engaging with new suppliers to identify innovative products and technologies.
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Supporting R&D initiatives, such as integrating waste heat into heat pump cycles, to enhance performance.
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Potential to manage and grow a technical team in the future.
The Ideal Person for the New Product Development Engineer:
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Strong mechanical engineering bias with proven experience in product development, R&D, product management, or category management.
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Background in HVAC or heating systems, with knowledge of heat pumps and cylinders highly advantageous.
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Analytical mindset with the ability to research and identify market solutions that meet technical specifications.
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Effective communicator, confident in liaising with cross-functional teams and external suppliers.
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Innovative thinker who is passionate about improving and optimising HVAC technologies.
If you think the role of New Product Development Engineer is for you, apply now!
Consultant: Justin Webb
Email: (url removed)
Tel: (phone number removed)
Candidates must be eligible to work and live in the UK.
About On Target:
At On Target, we specialise in sales, technical and commercial jobs in the Engineering, Construction, Building Services, Medical & Scientific, and Commercial & Industrial Solutions sectors, enabling our consultants to become experts in their market sector. We place all levels of personnel, up to Director across the UK and internationally.
Product Development Technician (FOOD)
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The Company
This is a fantastic opportunity to join a fast-paced and exciting food business, where innovation and passion come together to create outstanding products. With an experienced team and an ambitious growth trajectory, the company is set to make a significant impact in a rapidly growing market.
They are now looking to appoint a Product Development Technician to support the development and delivery of high-quality and nutritious products.
This role requires a full UK Driving Licence.
The Role
Reporting to the NPD controller, you will play a key role in helping with exciting NPD projections. You’re role will focus on:
- Supporting the development chefs in the kitchen with recipe testing and sampling
- Assisting with product trials in the factory and tracking progress
- Presenting samples to internal teams and fine-tuning recipes based on feedback
- Costing recipes, logging nutritionals, and keeping everything on track
- Ordering samples, keeping the kitchen stocked, and handling sample requests
- Sharing creative ideas, spotting trends, and helping stay ahead of the curve
- Keeping detailed records and supporting technical checklists/specs
- Leading taste tests and helping us benchmark the latest market launches
The Person
We are looking for an enthusiastic and driven individual with a passion for food and an eagerness to learn. You will have previous experience in a similar role, within chilled manufacturing and looking for that next challenge in an exciting branded business.
Additionally, we’re looking for a keen team player, with excellent communication and organisation skills. You’ll have a creative approach to problem-solving, an excellent eye for detail, and the ability to work efficiently across multiple tasks.
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Principal Scientist - Biocompatibility & Product Development
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**Location:** Witney, Oxfordshire
**ABOUT OUR DIABETES CARE DIVISION:**
Abbott is about the power of health. For more than 135 years, Abbott has been helping people reach their potential - because better health allows people and communities to achieve more. With a diverse, global network serving customers in more than 160 countries, we create new solutions - across the spectrum of health, around the world, for all stages of life. Whether it's next-generation diagnostics, life-changing devices, science-based nutrition, or novel reformulations, we are advancing some of the most innovative and revolutionary technologies in healthcare, helping people live their best lives through better health.
World Leader in Glucose Monitoring, Abbott Diabetes Care designs, develops and manufactures glucose monitoring systems for use in both home and hospital settings. We have a Centre of Excellence in Witney for the development and manufacture of electrodes and biosensors used by patients and healthcare professionals for the day-to-day management of diabetes. The site has been instrumental in the research, development and manufacture of the FreeStyle Libre Flash Glucose Monitoring System as well as exciting developments in the Libre family including FreeStyle Libre 2, FreeStyle Libre 3 and the Libre Sense system. We are passionate about doing work that improves the quality of people's lives.
**THE OPPORTUNITY:**
We currently have an exciting opportunity for a Biocompatibility specialist to join our R&D team to provide expertise across the ADC product range, supporting regulatory submissions for new products, on-market changes for existing products, as well and ensuring compliance with regulations and awareness of emerging regulations. Role will be Witney site based working cross functionally including Regulatory, Quality, Clinical Affairs & Research & Development organisations worldwide.
**ABOUT YOU:**
The ideal candidate will be a proactive individual, comfortable working in a fast-paced, changing environment with the ability to make decisions. You will bring excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with prior experience of a role working to maintain compliance with biocompatibility standards. You will be degree qualified, and bring experience in biocompatibility, additional knowledge of materials science, analytical chemistry or toxicology would be beneficial. Experience of working within medical devices is beneficial.
Responsibilities include:
+ Assist with strategic decision making with respect to biocompatibility - being an Subject Matter Expert in this area.
+ Ensuring compliance for both in-development products and on-market products to existing standards and ADCs design control process.
+ Oversight of any testing/data collection required, including working with and maintaining effective (technical) relationships with third party suppliers
+ Ensuring future compliance - maintaining awareness of upcoming changes to standards and associated test methodologies and being future thinking.
**WHAT WE OFFER:**
At Abbott, you will be part of a dynamic team that is making a real difference in diabetes care. You will have the opportunity to work on cutting-edge technology and contribute to innovative solutions that improve lives. We offer a collaborative work environment, opportunities for professional growth, and the chance to be part of a company that values scientific excellence and innovation.
In addition to a competitive salary, Abbott offers a highly attractive benefits package which includes a defined-contribution pension scheme, a share ownership scheme, private healthcare, life assurance, and a flexible benefits scheme which you can tailor to your own requirements. We like to help our employees live life to the fullest, and therefore we offer a range of optional initiatives for you to get involved in, including onsite allotments, couch to 5k campaigns, bee keeping, yoga and more!
**APPLY NOW:**
If you are passionate about electrochemistry and eager to contribute to ground-breaking research and development, we invite you to apply for this exciting opportunity. Join us in advancing diabetes care and making a positive impact on the world.
An Equal Opportunity Employer
Abbot welcomes and encourages diversity in our workforce.
We provide reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities.
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Senior Research Associate
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AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas - immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care - and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at Follow @abbvie on X, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn and Tik Tok ( .
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+ Based at DJS Antibodies in Headington, Oxford
+ Reporting to Senior Scientist II
At DJS Antibodies, we aspire to create the next generation of antibody therapeutics and in doing so improving the prognosis for patients with life-changing immunological diseases and cancers. As a biotech company within AbbVie, we combine the agility, team spirit and scientific focus of a biotech with the reach and vision of a global pharmaceutical company. We have developed a number of drug candidates to date and are looking forward to growing our portfolio to have the biggest impact on patients' lives.
A critical part of achieving our vision is working with fantastic people, and as such we are looking for an enthusiastic and talented Research Assistant/Senior Research Assistant to join the team. For this role, candidates should be excited about working in a small, dynamic team; always keen to get involved with all aspects of research at DJS; be a team player; have a high level of skill and passion for in vivo work. This position represents an excellent opportunity for someone looking to begin or solidify their career within an industry laboratory research environment working on innovative projects whilst developing a variety of new skills.
Job Overview
The successful candidate will work closely with the PPL holder to plan experiments such as immunisation to generate antibody responses and testing the biological effects of lead antibodies that we have discovered. They will be responsible for preparing biological materials for these experiments, performing the required in vivo techniques and analysing the results. They will also have the opportunity to carry out laboratory experiments utilising molecular biology, cell culture, antibody production and various assay techniques to support the DJS discovery activities as a key member of the team. In addition to on-site laboratory work they will be required to work with live rodent models and animal derived tissues in the off-site facility for up to 50% of time.
At DJS, we want to foster innovative scientists performing cutting-edge science. A successful applicant will be a practical person who is organised, pays attention to detail, and efficiently gets the job done. Previous experience in a range of analytical techniques is preferred but is not essential as training will be provided.
They will have many opportunities for scientific career development and improvement of their knowledge of a world leading R&D/drug development pipeline and the broader business both at DJS and within AbbVie.
Successful applicant's key responsibilities
+ Bringing energy, enthusiasm and positivity to the company
+ Animal model husbandry
+ Performing experiments with live animals
+ Collection of animal derived tissues
+ Maintenance of cell cultures
+ Transient protein expression with mammalian cell lines
+ Work as a key member of the DJS discovery team
+ Performing critical laboratory experiments and analysing the data to contribute to strategic decision making within DJS discovery
+ Keeping up to date with developments in the literature in relation to technical aspects of drug discovery technologies
+ Day-to-day laboratory management as part of the team e.g. maintaining a safe and clean working laboratory environment, re-ordering laboratory consumables
+ Establishing and maintaining quality sample archives
+ Gathering, analysing and presenting data from a variety of sources to the wider team and organization
+ Critical and impartial review of self and peer generated laboratory data
+ Maintenance of laboratory experimental records
+ Follow established procedures, protocols and study plans and recommend changes for refinement. Adhere to regulatory requirements.
Qualifications
+ A BSc of 2:1 level or higher with intercalated year in industrial/academic research and/or an MSc/MRes or higher degree with significant lab experience in a relevant discipline (such as Biology, Biochemistry, pathology, cell biology or Natural Sciences)
+ A current UK PIL AB licence (or equivalent) with 5 years experience in working with animal models.
+ Proven competencies in in vivo procedures in experimental rodents
+ For example: intravenous, intramuscular, intrapertitoneal, sub-cutaneous injections, blood sampling, schedule 1 methods, use of anesthetics.
+ It will be a requirement to pass a 6-month probationary period at DJS that the candidate is declared competent in all relevant techniques by the vivarium staff.
+ Enthusiasm for and commitment to drug discovery and drug development research
+ Proven recent experience in
+ Performing in vivo experiments in experimental rodents
+ Mammalian cell culture
+ Molecular and biochemical techniques (such as; bacterial cell culture; flow cytometry; PCR; ELISA; protein expression and purification)
+ Evidence of excellent organizational and interpersonal skills including
+ Ability to work both independently and as part of a team
+ Ability to work efficiently with strong attention to detail
+ Ability to build effective working relationships
+ Laboratory method development
+ Ability to work flexible hours when required
+ Proven written and oral communicative ability
+ Problem-solving skills
+ Strong IT skills
+ Desirable skills
+ + Experience with running experimental models of inflammation in rodents
+ PIL C licence and experience with surgical techniques. Good knowledge of statistics
Additional Information
About DJS Antibodies
At DJS Antibodies as part of AbbVie our ambition is to contribute world class novel antibody therapeutics for the treatment of severe diseases into AbbVies clinical pipeline. Our proprietary antibody discovery technology enables us to discover first in class antibodies to the key drivers of disease that have, until now, been intractable to drug discovery such as GPCR's and other complex membrane and soluble targets.
Working at DJS will involve coming into a stimulating and entrepreneurial work environment with excellent exposure to industry-leading experts. Being part of a small team means that you will be exposed to all aspects of R&D and the broader business. You will benefit from working with a great team, a competitive remuneration package and significant opportunities for career development.
AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives and serving our community? Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled.
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Remote Clinical Research Associate (CRA) - Oncology
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Key Responsibilities:
- Conduct site selection, initiation, monitoring, and close-out visits in accordance with study plans and SOPs.
- Ensure compliance with all study-specific protocols, GCP, FDA regulations, and ICH guidelines.
- Verify the accuracy, completeness, and integrity of clinical trial data through source data verification (SDV).
- Manage communication and relationships with study sites, investigators, and study coordinators.
- Identify and report adverse events and protocol deviations promptly.
- Train site staff on study procedures and ensure they have the necessary study materials.
- Monitor site performance and implement action plans to address any identified issues.
- Prepare monitoring visit reports and track site progress.
- Ensure timely data entry and query resolution from clinical sites.
- Maintain essential study documents and regulatory files.
- Participate in study team meetings and contribute to problem-solving discussions.
- Bachelor's degree in a life science, nursing, or related field.
- Significant experience (3+ years) as a Clinical Research Associate, with a strong focus on oncology clinical trials.
- Thorough understanding of GCP, ICH guidelines, and relevant regulatory requirements.
- Proven experience in conducting site monitoring visits and performing source data verification.
- Excellent clinical trial site management skills.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and organisational abilities.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
- Proficiency with clinical trial management systems (CTMS) and electronic data capture (EDC) systems.
- Ability to work independently and manage a remote workload effectively.
- A valid UK driving licence is required for site visits.
- Willingness to travel up to 60% of the time to study sites across the UK, starting from your home base, often near Oxford, Oxfordshire for local coverage.