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Thursday, March 7th, 2013
As reported by Fortune, the business models of large pharamceutical companies hasnt changed in decades - identify a disease that is afflicting a large percent of the population, like heart disease, find, test and patent a drug that is at least a marginal improvement on current medicines and make billions.
But the industry has changed patent protection being lost and increase competition from generic manufacturers taking large percents of market share, and despite spending huge amount on new research fewer drugs are being replaced by newer, improved versions ro replace expiring patents. This model puts pharmaceutical companies at risk of sinking billions of £’s into research only to produce nothing.
And with the Affordable Care Act preventing companies from relying upon the historic solution of small tweaks to blockbuster drugs toextending their lifetime and the patent by selling them as new treatment, a new approach needs to be adopted.
Novartis CEO Joseph Jimenez , in his interview with Fortune argues that “the definition of a blockbuster is changing” and that pharmaceutical businesses need to revinvent their business model for long term survival. His solution to this challenge is to produce more new drugs for smaller segments rather than chasing big markets taking the biological approach.
If you would like to read the full article read Fortune
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Thursday, September 6th, 2012
C
omputer Weekly has reported that in a new over survey IT professionals are squeezing the equivalent of 7.5 days into the working week.
Ranstad conducted a survey of over 2,000 UK employees and found IT employees performing the job of one and half people. The average IT professional performs the job of 1.3 people, covering 30% more work than one person should.
Also over a third of the IT professionals questioned (34.5%) said they believe they are working harder now than they did twelve months ago. Only 19.5% said their workload has eased over this period.
The survey also showed that IT professionals put these issues down to a variety of different reasons. Just over a quarter (27%) cited job cuts as one of the major contributors to an increase in their workload; another 27% said it was down to organisations keeping teams lean during a time of economic recovery; and 25% said the rise in workloads was linked to the need to do more to keep a secure job.
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Tuesday, July 31st, 2012
Jake Phillips at CK IT is recruiting for an Applications Analyst to join a leading quality and safety consultancy company based in Essex.
Responsibilities:
The successful Application Analyst will be responsible for implementing software at a managed hosting provider. This individual will implement, troubleshoot and assist in problem resolution for a variety of software ranging vendor products to internally built applications.
Further responsibilities will include:
- Implement tasks across internal and external resources.
- Provide hands-on analysis and administration for: Linux, Windows Server, JBoss, Tomcat, IIS and database technologies.
- Administrative scripting with Shell, Perl, etc.
- Assist in analysing application architecture and performance metrics, connectivity and design in the context of industry best practices.
- Implement software upgrades and patches
- Analyse application security, interfaces, connectivity and technology to ensure internal standards are met.
- Train internal and vendor staff on how to respond to software issues – application logs, web servers, database locking, etc.
- Capture, prioritise and resolve on-going issues.
Qualifications and skills:
The suitable Applications Analyst will have the following technical expertise:
- Solid experience of installing, maintaining and troubleshooting Red Hat Enterprise Linux Servers
- Strong knowledge of installing, maintaining and troubleshooting Microsoft IIS and Apache Web servers
- A broad understanding of and exposure to IT technologies, applications, best practices and processes is required.
- Software experience with Apache, JBoss, Tomcat, sendmail, IIS, LDAP, Radius, bind, clustering
- Red Hat Certification Engineering experience is preferred
- ITIL certification is a plus
- Provide support after normal work hours when necessary
- Excellent problem solving skills, analytical ability and judgement
How to apply:
Apply online:
For more information or to apply please contact Jake Phillips on 01438 743 047 or email jphilips@ck-it.co.uk. Please quote reference IT24577 in all correspondence
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Tuesday, July 10th, 2012
Jake Phillips at CK IT is recruiting for an Application Support Analyst required to join a leading pharmaceutical company based in Hertfordshire on a rolling 6 month contract.
Responsibilities:
As an Application Support Analyst you will have the following responsibilities:
- Provide a customer-focused telephone / e-mail based support service.
- Remote dial-in to install our software on customer PCs and to fix bugs.
- Logging of all calls and service requests received, into the Call Management System.
- Updating, escalating and closing of all calls and service requests
- Providing an on the telephone resolution or escalate internally if appropriate.
- Management of new software releases and version control.
Qualifications:
The successful candidate for this Application Support Analyst role will have the following qualifications and skills:
- Solid IT skills with an excellent working knowledge of Microsoft Windows and Office.
- Knowledge of Windows operating systems.
- Database skills and familiarity with Access and SQL server
- Customer service orientation with ability to manage personal workload efficiently.
- Enthusiastic, motivated team player with excellent oral communication skills.
- Good organizational skills.
How to apply:
Apply online:
For more information or to apply for this Application Support Analyst role please contact Jake Phillips on 01438 743 047 or email jphillips@ck-it.co.uk. Please quote reference IT24703 in all correspondence.
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Thursday, June 28th, 2012
Jake Phillips at CK IT is recruiting for a User Experience Designer (UX Designer) join a global solutions provider within the life sciences industry in London on a permanent basis
The job:
As a User Experience Designer (UX Designer) you will work with Product Managers and R&D teams across Europe to create new and improved patient recording solutions and enhance the user experience.
In addition to this you will provide UX consultation across a global Client Services organization that builds solutions to clinical trials of new medicines. Your work will include visits to users, discussions with patients, and usability testing. In visual design, you can rely on help from an external graphics designer. This exciting User Experience Designer (UX Designer) role extends all the way from software to designing new services for the company.
Responsibilities:
As a User Experience Designer you will have the following responsibilities:
- Understand business problems and users, define user personas and use cases
- Building concepts for user interfaces and services, sharing them with the team usíng visual tools, like sketches and storyboards
- Create prototypes, interface wireframes and user flows, ensuring iterative feedback is incorporated into the development process
- Document plans, including wireframes, site maps, logic flows, and assistance in creating of functional specifications
- Conduct usability tests, analyse results and provide recommendations
Qualifications and skills:
As a User Experience Designer you will have the following qualifications and experience:
- Extensive experience as an Interaction Designer / User Experience Designer.
- A portfolio of work that demonstrates your skills in user experience design
- Proven experience defining, developing, and documenting UX design and interaction
How to apply:
Apply online:
For more information or to apply for this Experience Designer (UX Designer) role, please contact Jake Phillips on 01438 743 047 or email jphillips@ck-it.co.uk. Please quote reference IT24629 in all correspondence.
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Tuesday, April 3rd, 2012
Jake Phillips at CK IT is recruiting for a MUMPS Programmer to join a speciality chemicals manufacturer at their site in West Bromwich
The Job:
This MUMPS programmer role offers a good package (with an excellent benefits package) and career progression opportunities at a very well established manufacturing company based in West Bromwich.
Experience required:
The successful MUMPS programmer should have hands-on experience programming experience and be able to lead developments where required. They should also have:
- Manufacturing experience is very advantageous but not mandatory however all applicants should have the ability to work on your own initiative
- Determining requirements from discussion with users and programmatically implementing solutions is essential for the role.
- Should have significant experience of Intersystems Cache RDBMS (MUMPS) and Objectscript programming language although any variant of M-technology would be considered as an equivalent alternative.
- A working knowledge of Linux, especially with reference to server operating systems is also required.
- Solid MUMPS Programming experience
- Competence with basic office productivity software
- MS Windows desktop operating systems experience.
- HTML/CSS experience.
Qualifications required:
The ideal candidate for this MUMPS programmer role will be educated to degree standard in a science discipline (e.g chemistry, physics, mathematics)
Key skills:
As a MUMPS Programmer these key skills are essential:
- Application Developer
- MUMPS, programmer
- Linux
- Intersystems Cache RDBMS
- Objectscript
How to apply:
For more information or to apply for this MUMPS Programmer role please contact Jake Phillips on 01438 870 022 or email jphillips@ck-it.co.uk . Please quote reference IT23238 in all correspondence.
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Monday, April 2nd, 2012
As reported by Computer World, Oracle has acquired ClearTrial which is a cloud-based application that helps pharmaceutical companies to run clinical trials of their new drugs more effectively.
Pharmaceutical companies such as Genetech, Gilead and AstraZeneca are already using the ClearTrials software. According to their website, the ClearTrial software “…makes the planning, forecasting and tracking of clinical project and financial performance faster and more accurate.”
The acquisition of ClearTrials ties nicely in with their acquisition of the drug safety software vendor Relsys in 2009 and of Phase Forward in 2010.
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Tuesday, March 27th, 2012
Jake Phillips at CK IT is currently recruiting for an IT Manager to join an innovative website provider operating within the education sector.
As IT Manager, you will be initially managing a team of 7 with the view of growing the technology department inline with the companies business objectives.
You will be responsible for the development of the IT team and will be required to have experience recruiting, coaching and developing other members of the IT department along with the companies IT infrastructure and systems inline with fixed budgets.
This role also involves taking responsibility for complete service level management of customer-facing web server infrastructure, including capacity planning, security, back-up, on-call management, disaster recovery, operational recovery, escalation procedures and processes.
To be considered for this IT Manager position, you will have the following skills and experience:
- Have a broad range of IT knowledge
- Strong IT management background
- Background of managing KPIs & Service Level Agreements
- Have an excellent academic record of achievement
- Front-end web technologies (HTML, CSS, javascript etc.)
- Web design tools (e.g. Photoshop)
- Microsoft networking technologies (Windows server 2008, Windows 7, Active Directory, Group Policies)
- MS Office software, Sage A
How to apply:
For more information or to apply for this IT Manager position, please contact Jake Phillips at CK IT on 01438 870 022 or email jphillips@ck-it.co.uk.
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Thursday, March 22nd, 2012
Jake Phillips at CK IT is looking for a SQL Server DBA to join a global environmental consultancy based in Oxfordshire. The salary for this SQL Server DBA is £45.000-50,000 per annum.
As SQL Server DBA you will join the Infrastructure management team and will have the following responsibilities:
- Manage and perform full system implementations
- Delivery and support of new robust database systems
- Monitor systems to make sure they run efficiently
- Develop database documentation
The SQL Server DBA should have a strong understanding of:
- SQL Server DBA (2008,2010)
- MS SQL design including clustering, reporting, analysis, integration, deployment and management
- Database design, development and ETL technologies
- Transact SQL skills
- Microsoft SQL clustering and replication management experience
- SSIS packages knowledge
- Strong server architecture appreciation
As SQL Server DBA you will have the following skills:
- Competent working with VBA and Access
- Working knowledge of C#, .NET
- Working knowledge of MySQL
- Working knowledge of MySQL clustering
- Trained and practiced in MS Windows Clustering
- Trained and practiced in MS Windows NLB
- Knowledge of iSCSI storage
- Knowledge of Data Warehouse technologies and techniques
If you are an experienced SQL Server DBA looking for an exciting new career challenge then get in contact today.
How to apply:
For more information regarding this SQL Server DBA position, please contact Jake Phillips at CK IT on 01438870022 or email jphillips@ck-it.co.uk.
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Thursday, March 8th, 2012
Jake Phillips at CK IT is currently recruiting for a Systems Support & Development Technician for a new and exciting opportunity based in Hertfordshire utilising C# / .Net / VB tools.
The job:
The Systems Support & Development Technician will be involved with the support and development of the entire team’s infrastructure including high-availability and disaster recovery facilities along with troubleshooting any issues. The role will be split and have approximately 80% development and 20% support. This is a very hand’s on role that involves continuous improvements to enhance line automation, quality, performance and availability.
Responsibilities:
The successful candidate for this Systems Support & Development Technician will be required to work closely with the engineering and maintenance teams to re-design and complete enhancements include defining, implementing, supporting and developing manufacturing applications.
The role will also include working with multiple site systems including:
- Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES)
- Manufacturing Enterprise Applications
- Historians
- Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS)
- Systems Integration with ERP
- Plant Floor Systems.
Qualifications and skills required:
This Systems Support & Development Technician job requires the following skills:
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- LIMS Experience very advantageous
- IT Support & Development expertise and experience
- Computer Science degree(or equivalent)
- Experience of working with C# / .Net / VB / SQL Server & Reporting </li>
How to apply:
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For more information or to apply for this Systems Support & Development Technician job please contact Jake Phillips on 01438 743 047 or email jphillips@ck-it.co.uk . Please quote reference IT23742 in all correspondence.
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But the industry has changed patent protection being lost and increase competition from generic manufacturers taking large percents of market share, and despite spending huge amount on new research fewer drugs are being replaced by newer, improved versions ro replace expiring patents. This model puts pharmaceutical companies at risk of sinking billions of £’s into research only to produce nothing. 
