Position Snapshot 
 
Location: Vevey, Switzerland
Company: NPTC Nutrition
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
Attractive additional benefits
 
Position Summary  

As a “Senior Clinical Research Scientist”, you will work with internal research and scientific teams to identify new pediatric and maternal nutrition science-based concepts and transfer these ideas into new product and/or new communication opportunities. 

We offer a dynamic, inclusive, and international working environment with many opportunities across different businesses, 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 Senior Clinical Research Scientist

• Actively contribute to ensure the relevance of early-stage research and increase its utilization.
• Build working groups with relevant internal expertise and competencies.
• Develop mid-to-long term clinical strategic plan for at least two brand categories.
• Design the scientific content of study protocols of moderate-to-high complexity and other key study documents in collaboration with statistician.
• Create scientific presentation materials and provide protocol, medical and safety training at study investigator meeting and site initiation visit.
• Perform clinical data review, interpretation and topline data rollout to R&D and broader multidisciplinary teams.
• Develop publication strategic plan for the responsible brand categories.
• Ensure best practice in executing and delivering clinical trials on time, on budget, and with high quality results.

What will make you successful

• PhD or Master’s degree with 4-6 years of postdoctoral and/or academic / industry job-related experience in study design, protocol development, research methodology, clinical data interpretation and publication is required.
• Specialty training or extensive experience in human nutrition science and clinical development in the field of pediatrics, gastroenterology (GI function), gut microbiota, and immune health outcomes is highly desirable.
• Proven ability providing in-depth scientific input in the development of clinical research portfolio strategy.
• Aptitude to interpret and synthesize clinical data / statistical results in study reports, writing scientific abstracts and manuscripts, and presenting study results to internal R&D & business teams, and to external scientific community.
• Proven ability to work in matrix organization and successful work experience representing clinical research on cross-functional category and project teams.
• Knowledge in designing and delivering clinical studies leading to compelling claims/messaging.
• Experience planning, executing, and managing global clinical trials.
• Skills in project prioritization, business alignment, and task allocation.
• Demonstrated strategic thinking and solution finding in projects and/or complex studies.

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.