R&D Manager, Denmark
Location: On-site in Copenhagen, Denmark

Language: Fluent in English
Timeframe: Role has full sign-off and budget
Salary/Package: Competitive salary and benefits on offer
Interviews: to be held within 1-2 weeks

Recruitment Partner: Airswift Account Manager: Felicia Brown and Jannet Yankova

Key Words: Research & Development; Microbiology; Molecular Biology; Biotech; CO?; Team management; Project Management

Company Summary:
We are glad to be retained by Europe's first carbon-negative chemical manufacturer that takes carbon outputs from industrial emitters and turn them into valuable, emission-free green chemicals, and uses them as input for chemical manufacturing. They are searching for an R&D Manager (on-site in Copenhagen, Denmark) to join their ambitious team and make an impact in the world. They have raised over $50M to date from top venture capital investors as well as in grant funding.

Job Summary:
As the R&D Manager, you will lead a team of scientists, and be responsible for driving the R&D efforts across our existing and new products, working closely with our strain developers and computational biologists, as well as the broader engineering and fermentation teams.

Responsibilities:

• You will be responsible for leading our innovation efforts across our multidisciplinary team with a focus on both our existing products and how to optimise production, as well as developing new products via biological and chemical processes.
• You will work closely with management and the scientific team to define strategic objectives and own project management for key priorities.

Requirements:

• You have at least 5+ years of R&D experience in a biotech start-up or industry (academia excluded)
• Strong academic background (Masters or PhD) in Microbiology, Molecular Biology, or a similar field.
• Most importantly, you are a creative problem solver, always full of new ideas, hate taking "no" for an answer, prefer to challenge the status quo and never postpone until tomorrow what can be done today.

What we promise you?

• You get to work with a group of passionate scientists, working on challenging and meaningful projects.
• This will be the journey of a lifetime - we are serious about our mission to reduce over 1 gigaton of CO? and you can play a pivotal role in making that happen.
• An inclusive, empowering, and engaging work environment
• We understand that relocating can be a hassle, so if you don't live in Denmark, we will help to give you a smooth transition.

What we promise you?

• All full-time employees receive employee stock options.
• Everyone has an equal amount of vacation - 30 days of vacation per year.
• We offer a pension top-up to all full-time employees.
• Assistance on both relocation costs as well as visa processes
• Social activities and company off-sites

The next steps
We have an exceptional team in place, and we are pleased to be able to appoint a further person to our growing business. We are aware that you may not 'tick all the boxes', but if you believe you can genuinely offer some valuable skills and experience to our business, please in the first instance then please contact our recruitment partner Airswift, and the account manager Felicia Brown, felicia.brown@airswift.com