Senior Project Manager based at CNRS-EISBM in Lyon in relation with the IMI eTRIKS Consortium on Information and Knowledge Management Services We are seeking an experienced individual to contribute to the management of community engagement and outreach activities in the newly formed eTRIKS Consortium, funded by the Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) of the European Commission 7th Framework Programme and the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations. Scientific Project: The eTRIKS Consortium is dedicated to delivering European Translational Information and Knowledge Management Services initially for all IMI projects, then for other European translational research projects. These projects encompass translational bioinformatics, clinical research informatics, health/clinical informatics and the development of new analytical tools. They use tranSMART as part of the software knowledge management platform: http://www.etriks.org; http://www.transmartproject.org Job context: She/he will be working closely with the academic and pharmaceutical partners of eTRIKS, interfacing with the community of users in IMI, FP7 and Horizon 2020. The selected candidate will be based in Lyon-Gerland within the CNRS-EISBM team led by Charles Auffray, hosted by Claude Bernard University and the Lyonbiopole competitive cluster on the Charles Mérieux campus:http://www.eisbm.org; http://workshop.eisbm.org Job description: The ideal candidate should be able to proactively lead the development of the community of users of the eTRIKS platform, engaging multiple academic and industrial partners in a pre-competitive collaborative innovation effort. The objective is to reach international harmonization of the use of analytical and modeling methods in the context of the fast evolving area of translational research and systems medicine. In particular the candidate is expected : • to establish and maintain interactions with IMI & non-IMI translational projects regarding their knowledge management and informatics needs; • to coordinate the activities of eTRIKS with the open source development community around the eTRIKS platform; • to coordinate the provision of education to IMI and non-IMI translational scientists, patient advocacy groups, commercial service providers regarding the mission and services of the eTRIKS consortium. Required Experience/Skills: • PhD or MBA/Engineering degree in biomedical/computational research • Significant experience in academic or industrial project management • Experience in Open Innovation and Agile project management • Familiarity with a UNIX/Linux HPC environment with relational databases • Knowledge of data analysis workflows and supporting software • Rigour, autonomy and excellent relational and teamwork skills • Proven distributed project management and communication skills in English Contract Duration: Available immediately for two years with possible one-year extension. Salary: Depending on qualifications and experience, based on CNRS salary grid. Application: Send CV, cover letter and names of two references to Charles Auffray Email: jobs@eisbm.org More information at: http://job.eisbm.org/senior-project-manager-etriks/ References: - Auffray C, Chen Z, Hood L. (2009) Systems medicine: the future of medical genomics and heathcare. Genome Med. 1:29. - Szalma S, Koka V, Khasanova T, Perakslis, ED. (2010) Effective knowledge management in translational medicine. Translational Med 8:68. - Szalma S, Koka V, Khasanova T, Perakslis ED. (2010) How informatics can potentiate precompetitive open-source collaboration to jump-start drug discovery and development. Clin Pharmacol Therapeutics 87:614-616. - Hood L, Balling R, Auffray C. (2012) Revolutionizing medicine in the 21st century through systems approaches. Biotechnol. J. 7:992-1001.