Senior Research Manager, Vaccine Product Development

The Wellcome Trust is a global charitable foundation. We improve health for everyone by funding science, leading policy and advocacy campaigns, and building partnerships.

We plan to spend £16bn over the next ten years, funding new discoveries in life, health, and wellbeing, and taking on three global health challenges: mental health, infectious disease and climate and health.

The Infectious Disease Solutions Programme (IDSP) is looking for up to 2 Senior Research Managers with a background in vaccine product development. You will help develop and deliver projects focused on early-stage vaccine development and the supporting environment required to see effective uptake of these products.

We are keen to hear from individuals who have worked in early-stage vaccine development including preclinical studies and phase 1/2 studies, and with knowledge of how to embed equitable access considerations into in early product development to enable uptake.

This is an exciting time to join Wellcome under new direction of John-Arne Rottingen – who joined as CEO in 2024. The Infectious Disease Solutions Programme (IDSP) is a relatively new team and as such an opportune time to join and help sculpt future direction for vaccines R&D.

We are looking for an individual with a passion for global health, to work collaboratively across the IDSP team and Wellcome to address key gaps in the global health field through definition, refinement and delivery of our vaccine product development portfolio for a number of infectious diseases that affect Africa and South Asia.

You will be joining a multidisciplinary, collaborative and enthusiastic team (the Vaccines team) focused on developing impactful vaccines for low-and-middle income countries, gaining a greater understanding of protective immunity and filling key knowledge gaps that inform policy makers on the best use of these vaccines.

To apply please upload your current CV and complete our short application. Interview dates: W/C 19 May. You can view the full job description on our website. You can read more about the benefits we offer our employees on our website.

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