In order to create real change in the industry, we are continually adding new talent to our already exceptional team. Below is a list of our open positions. If there is not a match for your skills, we encourage you to check back later.
In addition, we are always looking for talented computational biologists, Python developers and data analysts to join us. Drop us a line at rebase@colorifix.com.
Laboratory Technician
More info...Role description:
We are seeking a Laboratory Technician to enhance our Coloration team at Colorifix. The role will involve bacterial culture growth, fabric dyeing and testing, and R&D work. Candidates with a knowledge of microbiology and an interest in colour technology are encouraged to apply.
Responsibilities will include:
- Maintaining and ordering general lab consumables
- Cleaning and sterilising labware
- Organising and setting up experiments
- Collecting, testing, and analysing samples
- Processing dyed fabric samples including photography, barcoding and uploading data
- Preparing and dyeing materials using specialised machinery
- Participating in PowerPoint presentations, meetings, and discussions
- Taking an active role in preparing and growing bacterial cultures for dyeing
Essential skills and Experience:
Desirable skills and experience:
Title: Laboratory Technician
Reports to: Dyeing Team Lead and Head of Coloration
Location: Norwich Research Park, Colney Lane, Norwich
Remuneration: annual salary of £21,000-25,000, depending on level of experience.
Apply:
Please submit your CV and cover letter to recruitment@colorifix.com. Please include the job title in the subject line.
Deadline:
The deadline for submission is midnight BST on 31.10.2023
Colorifix is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
Business Development Lead
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Colorifix is looking for an experienced business development professional to join their team in Cambridge. The ideal candidate will have a passion for sustainability, a strong track record in sales and an existing network within the textile industry. As the Business Development Lead, you will be responsible for expanding sales operations across international markets with a proven ability to adapt and thrive in a fast-paced environment. To achieve this, experience within the fashion and or textiles industry is essential.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
● Co-develop a growth strategy with C-level and Commercialisation Manager
● Conduct research to identify new markets and customer needs
● Arrange and lead business meetings with prospective customers
● Build long-term relationships with new and existing customers
● Manage team of UK-based Business Development Associates
● Develop a deep understanding of the company’s products and services
● Strategic planning and implementation of operational changes
● Ensure alignment with other parts of the organisation
● Discuss promotional strategy and activities with the marketing department
● Promote the company’s products and services
Role Requirements:
● Demonstrable track record (10 years +) of success in sales and business development
● Experience in sales, margins, and P&L (Profit and Loss) analyses for a wide range of products, demonstrating the ability to discern market trends and patterns effectively
● Understanding of both technology trends and traditional business approaches
● Robust professional network with key industry players internationally including Asia
● Experience working within all levels of the supply chain including Tier 1, 2 and 3
● Flexibility to travel between our Cambridge, London and Norwich sites on a regular basis
● Ability to think strategically and analyse data to inform decision-making
● Excellent organisational skills and attention to detail
● Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams
● A collaborative, sleeves-rolled-up, results-based kind of approach
Title: Business Development Lead
Reports to: CCO
Location: Cambridge
Remuneration: Competitive
Holidays: 25 + BH + Birthday
Benefits: Pension scheme, EMI share options, mental health support and employee wellbeing budget, company social events and annual retreat
Apply: Please submit your CV and cover letter to recruitment@colorifix.com stating the role that you are applying for in the subject line.
Colorifix is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
ApplyAdministrative Assistant - Portugal
More info...Role description:
Colorifix is made up of people who firmly believe that sustainable practices are key to creating a balance between mankind and the earth. We are looking for a full-time Administrative Assistant who believes in our core values for our facility in Vila Nova de Famalicão, Portugal to help with administrative support to the growing team there and act as point of contact for visitors, deliveries etc. and interact with all departments companywide in Portugal, UK and globally. We have a unique product and process, and whilst we grow so will your role and knowledge base. Your role will be busy but diverse, including (but not limited to) reception duties, ordering and recording supplies, meeting room management, liaising with service suppliers, keeping the site within any current Covid guidelines, assisting the CCO with any day-to-day tasks as required and being the site point of contact for the UK Admin Lead, well as helping out the wider team in Portugal and in the United Kingdom.
Responsibilities:
● Administration including stocktaking, purchase requisitions, filing, data entry.
● Reception duties including welcoming visitors, handling deliveries, answering calls.
● Meeting room coordination including diary management, room preparation and refreshments.
Essential skills:
● Previous, recent, experience in a similar role
● Good computer skills, we use G-Suite, Slack, Adobe, and other company and role specific software
● Ability to speak English
Who are you?
● Completed upper secondary education as a minimum
● Adaptable and dependable
● An Excellent communicator with good interpersonal skills
● You have common sense and the ability to take initiative
● You have an interest in and awareness of environmental sustainability
● You have an Interest in textiles and fashion
● Able to provide own transportation to and from the office
Title: Administrative Assistant
Reports to: Director
Location: Vila Nova de Famalicão
Remuneration: 14,000 EUR – 17,000 EUR depending on experience
Holidays : 22 days + Birthday
Apply: Please submit your CV and cover letter to recruitment@colorifix.com stating the role that you are applying
for in the subject line.
Colorifix is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive
Junior Implementation Specialist - Portugal
More info...Role description:
As part of Implementation team, the junior implementation specialist will work together with
our customers, bringing solutions to them and helping them to establish Colorifix technology
on each site. They would be involved in the fermenter commissioning, demonstration tests
(fermentation plus dye) at customers’ sites and client’s training onboarding on both
laboratory and full-scale fermentation plus dye processes. They would also be responsible
for knowledge capturing at the full-scale production in each site, to bring back the important
inputs for the new strain development scientists and dye development at Colorifix’s R&D
level.
The future junior implementation specialist will be expected to travel to client’s sites and to
have good communication, practical troubleshooting experience and recording skills to be
able to build the bridge between Colorifix development and the customers application.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
● Work close to customers, building strong and trustful relationships with them.
● Share information between the Colorifix development team and the customers.
● Assist on trials for new products and new customers onboarding, on both laboratory
and industrial procedures.
● Report to Colorifix team the trials, travel outcomes and challenges faced.
● Assist on the troubleshooting initiatives on solving any challenges brought by the
customers on the technology application.
● Assist on training new onboarding customers on the Colorifix technology.
● Work with the technical transfer documentation and industrial project
implementation.
● We expect you to be a team player eager to connect to fellow professionals in the
various scientific competence areas within Colorifix as well as to those from external
parties.
Role Requirements:
● You are a Microbial Physiologist, Biotechnologist, Chemical or Biochemical Engineer
by training, preferably at Master level or Bachelor’s degree with 2 years of
experience.
● You have experience with fermenter operation, maintenance, and troubleshooting at
any scale.
● Willingness to travel internationally on a regular basis
● You have experience in working together with customers and/or people outside your
organization.
● You have experience with running fermentation (E.coli, Yeast & Fungi) process,
preferably in an industrial context.
● You have knowledge of bio-process principles such as different modes of operation,
up- and down-scaling (through to pilot plant and full production), and/or bioprocess
data processing.
● Ability to work across multiple projects.
● You have high quality standards.
● You have a customer focus and are open to share knowledge with your colleagues.
● You combine solid problem analysis with practical judgment and creativity.
● Your personality can be described as collaborative, entrepreneurial, proactive,
responsible, result-driven and flexible.
● Good communication skills in English are required.
● Full driving license and own transportation required.
● Role open to EU citizens only.
Title: Junior Implementation Specialist
Reports to: Head of Implementation
Location: Vila Nova De Famalicao, Portugal
Remuneration: €30-32,000
Holidays: 22 + BH + Birthday
Apply: Please submit your CV and cover letter to recruitment@colorifix.com stating the role
that you are applying for in the subject line.
The closing date for applications is: 16th September 2023
Colorifix is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to
creating an inclusive environment for all employees
Data Scientist
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At Colorifix, data is our most valuable asset. Our scientists produce tons of it and the progress of our research depends on organising the data neatly for further analysis. We are looking for a data scientist to join our team and help us with establishing best practices in data collection, organisation and analysis. We also have many scientific questions we would like the successful candidate to help us answer with the power of statistics.
Your role will bridge between the software development team and the rest of the company. Therefore, you might expect to work in close collaboration with scientists, technicians, bioinformaticians, developers and other wonderful people.
Informatics is a small but rapidly growing division at Colorifix. Apart from providing support on the data management front, we are working on bringing the best digital tools into the company to help it run more efficiently. Each member of the team is an expert in their own field and we make our best to create a collaborative environment where everyone can work flexibly, grow into the role and learn from each other. We value initiative, a desire to learn and a drive for exploration.
Although the whole company is growing fast, it still has a start-up vibe. The role will be data-science-heavy but there will be plenty of opportunities to engage with other activities of the team and contribute to how the company functions as a whole.
Key duties and responsibilities
The exact duties of the role are flexible and will depend on the skills and interests of the individual. The duties will include some or all of the following:
- Support the wider company with the implementation of rigorous statistical analyses: fitting models, conducting statistical tests.
- Applying mathematical models to answer scientific questions, e.g. predicting properties of our pigments based on the existing data, optimising fermentation recipes.
- Advising on experimental design, data collection and sampling.
- Designing data models and database structures
- Data migration, cleanup and organisation
- Building automated ELT, data analysis and visualisation pipelines
- Routine number crunching and report generation
- Suggesting, testing, and building pipelines for bioinformatics tools
- Writing scripts in Python for automating data processing
- Design and implement user interfaces for viewing and interacting with data
- Manage workflows on Notion and other applications
Essential skills
Desirable skills
Title: Data scientist/Data Engineer
Reports to: Head of Informatics
Location: Cambridge/Norwich
Remuneration: £45,000 – £55,000 DOE
Apply: Please submit your CV and cover letter to recruitment@colorifix.com. The closing date for applications is the 30th of September 2023 – Note that applications without a cover letter will not be considered.
Colorifix is an equal-opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
ApplyLaboratory Technician
More info...Role description:
We are looking for a Laboratory Technician to join the Microbial Engineering Division at Colorifix to support the day-to-day running of our DNA assembly pipeline. The role will comprise routine lab-based molecular biology tasks (such as cloning, PCR and DNA extraction) as well as organisation and maintenance of a DNA part library. This role will directly support the development of DNA pathways and genetic tools that are the basis of Colorifix’s development platform of colourful microbes. The candidate will be expected to carry out tasks independently once full training has been given, and will work closely with a team of research scientists and senior lab technicians. The candidate may also be required to work flexibly to support other work within the division, such as bacterial transformation and strain screening services.
Essential skills and experience:
•BSc in biological sciences or relevant work experience in a biological sciences/molecular biology discipline
•An understanding of molecular biology techniques (e.g., cloning, PCR, DNA extraction)
•An understanding of basic microbiology techniques (e.g., aseptic technique and bacterial culture growth)
•Experience in a lab-based role
•Good organisational skills with high attention to detail
•Able to follow standard operating procedures.
•Good communicator and flexible team player that is committed to the success of the team.
Desirable skills and experience
•Experience with DNA sequencing analysis
•Experience with automated laboratory equipment
•Experience in troubleshooting and problem solving
•Experience of working in multi-disciplinary teams
•Experience in an industrial setting
Title: Lab Technician (Molecular Microbiology)
Reports to: Pipeline Lead
Location: Norwich
Remuneration: £21 – £25,000 DOE
Holidays: 25+BH+Birthday
Benefits: Pension scheme, EMI share options, mental health support and employee wellbeing budget, company social events and an annual retreat
Apply: Please submit your CV and cover letter to recruitment@colorifix.com. The closing date for applications is the 31st of August 2023 – Note that applications without a cover letter will not be considered.Note: We review applications on a rolling basis.
Colorifix is an equal-opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
ApplyExecutive Assistant - Portugal
More info...Role description:
We are looking for a committed and enthusiastic full time C-Level assistant to join our growing team to support the Chief Commercial Officer in a fast paced and ever evolving environment, acting as their gatekeeper. You will have excellent time management and communication skills and be able to act without guidance. We have a unique product and process, and whilst we grow so will your role and knowledge base. Your role will be busy but diverse, including (but not limited to)…
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
● Diary and inbox management
● Travel arrangements – direct and via agent
● Some liaison with lawyers
● Point of contact for execs, team, clients and partners
● Collation and formatting of information for internal and external presentations
● Other ad hoc administrative duties e.g. expense claims, meeting minutes, catering arrangements
Essential Skills:
● Excellent English, reading, written and spoken
● Previous, recent, experience in a similar role
● Office365, Calendar and Mail Client skills as well as adaptable to company specific software
● Flexible approach to working hours (when needed)
Desirable Skills:
● An interest in and awareness of environmental sustainability
● Previous exposure to the fashion or textiles industry
● Any other spoken languages
● Occasional travel nationally and internationally
Role open only to EU citizens.
Title: Executive Assistant
Reports to: Chief Commercial Officer
Location: Jesufrei, Vila Nova De Famalicao (Braga) Portugal
Remuneration: €30-35,000pa
Holidays: 22 + BH + Birthday
Benefits: Lunch Vouchers
Apply: Please submit your CV and cover letter to recruitment@colorifix.com stating the role that you are applying for in the subject line.
The closing date for applications is 18th of August 2023
Colorifix is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
ApplyPhD Internships (PIPS Placement)
More info...We offer three month internships for PhD students undertaking a PIPS Placement. If you’re interested in our mission to make colour more sustainable for all and want to make a real impact during your three-month project, get in touch!
Our internships occur within one of our R&D Teams. We’re looking for the following experience and interest:
Informatics: Confident in Python and with a background in bioinformatics, bioengineering, chemoinformatics, data visualisation, or computer science.
Coloration: Material science, biomaterials, or surface chemistry.
Microbial Engineering: Natural products, synthetic biology, molecular microbiology, analytics, or fermentation.
Please send a CV and cover letter to recruitment@colorifix.com
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