NIPD Genetics consists of a talented and multidisciplinary team of world-class experts and
scientists
with knowledge and experience in the fields of business, molecular biology, human genetics, genomics,
transcriptomics, methylomics, statistics and bioinformatics. We are led by an executive team with
extensive experience in managing health-care related organizations.
VALUES:
Responsibility, Excellence, Care, Innovation, Professionalism, Entrepreneurship
VISION:
"To become a leader in the field of genetic diagnostics, offering excellence in technology, performance
and value"
MISSION:
"To develop and provide the most accurate, safe and reliable genetic tests"
NIPD Genetics Public Company Ltd is one of the leaders in the field of cell-free DNA and non-invasive genetic testing with international operations. NIPD Genetics consists of a world-class dynamic team of experts with extensive experience in biotechnology, business, human genetics, molecular biology, and bioinformatics offering advanced research and providing state-of-the-art internationally accredited diagnostic services worldwide. Through Research & Development, we are committed to developing improved solutions for the diagnosis and management of genetic diseases, while at the same time we provide state-of-the-art internationally accredited diagnostic services worldwide. NIPD Genetics offers advanced genetic services in over 30 countries in Europe, Asia, and Africa. NIPD Genetics is part of Medicover, a pioneering international medical and diagnostic services company founded in 1995.
THE POSITION
We seek to recruit an enthusiastic and driven individual with a background in Machine Learning, Bioinformatics, Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science or similar, to join our dynamic team of scientists.
The successful candidate will work in an interdisciplinary environment and will help in data analysis, workflow automation and the development and implementation of suitable models in the field of diagnostics.
JOB DESCRIPTION
Responsible for analytical aspects of diagnostic tests as well as the development and implementation of statistical analysis and machine learning methods for diagnostic operations
Responsible for the computational analysis and the bioinformatics support for all research operations
Contributing to the verification/validation of the test procedures and provide counselling on statistical matters and procedures to the management
Assisting in the development of software and custom scripts to automate data retrieval and analysis and ensure compliance with accreditation requirements
Big data management
Install and configure solutions (DevOps engineer)
Assisting in the development of software and custom scripts to automate data storage, data retrieval and ensure compliance with accreditation requirements
REQUIREMENTS
University degree in Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Mathematics, Statistics, Machine Learning, Computer Science, or closely related fields
Candidates must have strong analytical skills, and be proficient with Unix/Linux command line environments, as well as experienced in programming in one or more of the following programming languages: Python, R or C++
The following will be considered an advantage:
Masters or PhD degree in relevant field
Experience in molecular biology and genetics
Experience with next generation sequencing data analysis
Familiar with High Performance Computing
Experience in parallel programming
Experience with relational databases (e.g. MySQL)
Good communication skills
APPLICATIONS:
To apply please forward your application with subject: 2022/24 – Data Analyst at the following e-mail address: hr@nipd.com. Your application should include a detailed curriculum vitae and the names of two referees.
For further information, please contact the Human Resources Department at Tel. 22266888 or visit nipd.com.
NIPD Genetics is an Equal Opportunities Employer. All applications will be handled as strictly confidential.
NIPD Genetics Public Company Ltd is one of the leaders in the field of cell-free DNA and non-invasive genetic testing with international operations. NIPD Genetics consists of a world-class dynamic team of experts with extensive experience in biotechnology, business, human genetics, molecular biology, and bioinformatics offering advanced research and providing state-of-the-art internationally accredited diagnostic services worldwide. Through Research & Development, we are committed to developing improved solutions for the diagnosis and management of genetic diseases, while at the same time we provide state-of-the-art internationally accredited diagnostic services worldwide. NIPD Genetics offers advanced genetic services in over 30 countries in Europe, Asia, and Africa. NIPD Genetics is part of Medicover, a pioneering international medical and diagnostic services company founded in 1995.
THE POSITION
We seek to recruit an experienced Medical Sales Specialist located in Cyprus. They will be responsible for international sales activities, from lead generation through to closing deals and maintaining customer satisfaction.
JOB DESCRIPTION
Achieve growth and hit sales targets
Maintain and enhance existing client relationships
Conduct market research to identify selling possibilities and evaluate customer needs
Travel to assigned areas to promote and educate about products offered by NIPD Genetics
Actively seek out new sales opportunities through cold calling networking and travelling
Set up meetings with potential clients and listen to their needs and concerns
Prepare and deliver appropriate presentations on products/services
Build and promote strong, long-lasting customer relationships by partnering with them and understanding their needs
Participate on behalf of the company in conferences in Cyprus and abroad
REQUIREMENTS
University Degree in Biological Sciences or a related field is a must.
Fluency in English and Arabic is a must
Previous experience in sales is preferred.
Demonstrated ability to communicate, present and influence credibly and effectively.
Work flexibly with considerable international travel and time commitment outside of normal working hours.
Fluent proficiency in English is required. Additional languages are an advantage.
Based in Cyprus.
APPLICATIONS:
To apply please forward your CV with subject: Vacancy for Medical Sales Specialist – Arabic Speaking to NIPD Genetics Public Company Ltd at the following e-mail address: hr@nipd.com, including a brief description of your specific qualifications related to this role. For further information, please contact the Human Resources Department at Tel. 22266888 or visit nipd.com.
NIPD Genetics is an Equal Opportunities Employer. All applications will be handled as strictly confidential.
NIPD Genetics is a leading, innovative biotechnology company that designs, develops, and provides a
broad spectrum of healthcare services to its customers through its expansive portfolio of molecular
and clinical laboratory tests in all disciplines.
At NIPD Genetics we are committed to protecting and respecting our customer’s privacy and personal
information. Personal information or personal data means any information that identifies, relates to,
describes, is capable of being associated with, or could be reasonably linked, directly or indirectly, with
a particular individual, such as name, identification number, location data, an online identifier or to
one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social
identity of that individual.
NIPD Genetics collects and processes your personal information according to the General Data
Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 and the Cypriot law providing for the protection of natural
persons with regards to the processing of personal data and for the free movement of such data (L.
125(I)/2018). The following principles lie at the heart of our approach to handling personal data:
Lawfulness, fairness and transparency – We collect and process personal data in a lawful
and
transparent manner and clearly communicate to our customers how their personal data will be
used.
Purpose limitation – We only use personal data for the purpose for which they have been
collected.
Data minimization – We only collect the data that is absolutely necessary in relation to
the
purposes for which they are processed.
Accuracy – We take every reasonable step to ensure that personal data collected are
accurate
and up to date.
Storage limitation – We do not keep personal data for longer than it is needed. Personal
data are
periodically reviewed and erased if they are not needed or anonymized and stored for scientific
research purposes.
Integrity and confidentiality (security) – Appropriate technical and organizational
measures are
in place to ensure that personal data are adequately protected from any unauthorised or illegal
processing and accidental loss, destruction or damage.
Accountability – We, at NIPD Genetics, are committed to compliance with all legal
requirements
and promote internal practices to achieve the highest standards for personal data privacy.
NIPD Genetics has appointed a Data Protection Officer (DPO) who is responsible for overseeing and
ensuring that personal information is collected and processed in line with these principles. The contact
details of the Data Protection Officer (DPO) can be found below:
Postal address: 31 Neas Engomis street, 2409 Engomi, Nicosia, Cyprus
Telephone number: + 357 22266888
By accessing or using our products or services, or by transmitting information to us by email or other
electronic means, you accept our policies, procedures and practices described in this Privacy Policy. If
you do not agree with our policies, procedures and practices as described, you can choose not to
access or use our products or services or not to transmit personal information to us.
We collect and process several types of personal information from and about users of our websites
and of our products and services, including:
Personal and sensitive information: some of our products and services may involve testing
of
biological samples that we or our customers use to create test reports, genotyping or sequencing
services for research or clinical purposes and the receipt, creation, or analysis of genomic or other
data derived from samples, including through our customer’s use of our software as a service
product. In receiving samples and providing our products and services, we may obtain your name
and surname, date of birth, email address, home address, telephone number, gender, ethnicity
and other health related information.
Computer, device and browsing information: as you interact with our products and services
online, including this website, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain
information about your computer or device, as well as browsing actions and usage patterns. This
data may include your IP address, browser type or version.
The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include cookies. You can control
cookies by adjusting your cookies settings.
Information about children
If you are under 18 years of age, do not register on our website or provide any information about
yourself to us. We do not provide our products or services directly to children or proactively collect
their personal information. Despite this prohibition, it is possible that we may sometimes be given
information about children while handling samples from our customers in our clinical labs, or through
use of our products and services by our customers and partners. If we become aware that we have
inadvertently collected personal information from children under the age of 18, without parental
consent, we will take the necessary steps to delete it as soon as possible in compliance with applicable
laws.
LEGAL BASIS FOR PROCESSING OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
Your personal information is collected by NIPD Genetics for the following purposes:
To provide you with our products and services, respond to your inquiries or fulfill your requests
and otherwise manage your relationship with us. The legal basis for processing is to meet the
requirements of a contract, to comply with our legal obligations and/or because we have a
legitimate interest in responding to requests for information about our products and services.
To communicate with you about content and product offerings, newsletters and event invitations
which are relevant to your interests and in line with your preferences. The legal basis for processing
is the individual’s explicit consent prior to sending the information and managing individuals
preferences.
To process and respond to complaints. The legal basis for processing is to meet a legal obligation.
To monitor and record information relating to the use of our products and services, including our
website. The legal basis for processing is our legitimate interest in order to improve our products
and services and our website for individuals.
To provide our products and services, NIPD Genetics may collect, receive and process biological
samples to isolate and sequence DNA. NIPD Genetics may then store resulting genetic information
and use genetic information to provide our products and services. In some cases, NIPD Genetics may
provide interpretations of genetic information on behalf of its customers, including healthcare
providers. This is only done pursuant to a written contract or a Sample Information Form with a
patient’s informed consent and is subject to applicable legal and ethical safeguards.
This sensitive information described above is collected by NIPD Genetics for the following purposes:
To provide support and maintenance services to customers who use our products and services –
The legal basis for processing is to meet the requirements of a contract.
To provide genotyping and sequencing services and analysis for our customers, including
healthcare providers. The legal basis of this processing is to meet the requirements of a contract
or as allowed in the Sample Information Form with a patient’s informed consent.
To conduct genotyping and sequencing services and analysis for quality control, process and
product development and improvements, and optimization in our labs to reflect quality
improvements and advances in our technology. The legal basis for processing is the patient’s
informed consent given through the Sample Information Form.
Transfer of Data
Your information, including personal data, may be transferred to - and maintained on - computers
located outside your province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection
laws may differ than those from your jurisdiction.
If you are located outside Cyprus and choose to provide information to us, please note that we transfer
the data, including personal data, to Cyprus and process it there.
Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your
agreement to that transfer.
NIPD Genetics will take all reasonable steps necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and
in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of your personal information will take place to
an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of your
data and other personal information.
Disclosure of Data
NIPD Genetics complies with the General Data Protection Regulation and will not sell or trade your
personal information.
NIPD Genetics may disclose your personal information in the good faith that such action is necessary:
To comply with a legal obligation
To protect and defend the rights or property of NIPD Genetics
To prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with our products and services
To protect against legal liability
COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES
Cookies are files with small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifiers.
Cookies are sent to your browser when you visit a website and stored on your device. Tracking
technologies used on the website are beacons, tags and scripts, to collect and track information and
to improve and analyze our websites.
We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our websites and collect
certain information. This includes information about the computer or device you are using, such as
Internet protocol (IP) address, information about the browser type or version, the pages of our
website that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device
identifiers and other diagnostic data.
You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However,
if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our websites.
Examples of Cookies we may use:
Session Cookies. We use Session Cookies to operate our websites.
Preference Cookies. We use Preference Cookies to remember your preferences and various settings.
Security Cookies. We use Security Cookies for security purposes.
Visitor behavior cookies. To understand how visitors use and navigate the websites
Keyword cookies. To understand how visitors discover the websites.
ANALYTICS
We may use third-party Service Providers to monitor and analyze the use of our websites.
Google Analytics
Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic.
Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our service. This data is shared with
other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads of
its own advertising network.
You can opt-out of having made your activity on the Service available to Google Analytics by installing
the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. The add-on prevents the Google Analytics JavaScript
(ga.js, analytics.js, and dc.js) from sharing information with Google Analytics about visits activity.
For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web
page
SECURITY OF DATA
We are committed to protecting the security of the information we collect, and we take reasonable
physical, technical, and administrative safeguards such as data anonymization and encryption to help
protect personal information from unauthorized or inappropriate access or use. It is your
responsibility to protect the confidentiality of your passwords, and any other access features
associated with your access or use of the website or our products and services, as well as to adhere
to any applicable Terms of Use or other contract between us and you or your organization.
PERSONAL DATA RETENTION
We may retain collected information even after you remove it from the website, our Services, or our
Products, to comply with applicable law, to resolve disputes, to enforce any rights in connection with
the website, our Services, or our Products, and to use as provided in this Privacy Policy, the Terms of
Use, or an applicable contract between us and you or your organization. How long we retain specific
personal information varies depending on the purpose for its use and we may delete or retain your
personal information in accordance with applicable law.
SERVICE PROVIDERS
We may employ third party companies and individuals to facilitate, maintain or operate our websites
(“Service Providers”), to provide the websites on our behalf, to perform service-related services or to
assist us in analyzing how our websites are used.
These third parties have access to your Personal Data only to perform these tasks on our behalf and
are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.
LINKS TO OTHER SITES
Our websites may contain links to other sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third-party
link, you will be directed to that third party's site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy
of every site you visit.
We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of
any third-party sites or services.
CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
This Privacy Policy may be updated from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting
the new Privacy Policy on this page.
We will let you know via email and/or a prominent notice on our website, prior to the change
becoming effective and update the “effective date” at the bottom of this Privacy Policy.
You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy
are effective when they are posted on this page.
YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS
NIPD Genetics ensures that it can respond immediately to requests that you make for the exercise of
your legal rights in accordance with data protection laws. These rights are as follows:
The right to withdraw consent at any time – in cases where processing is based on your
consent
The right of access – at any given time you have the right to know what information about you
we hold and receive information about the processing activities we perform
The right to rectify – you have the right to correct, amend and complete personal data that is
incomplete
The right to erasure (“right to be forgotten”) – you can request that your personal information
is deleted
The right to object – you can object at any time to our processing of your personal information
The right to restriction of processing – this applies in the event:
You dispute the accuracy of your personal information and until it is verified
You oppose to the deletion of personal data and ask instead to delete the use of it
The personal information is no longer necessary for us
You object to the processing and we are considering whether our legitimate grounds
for processing prevail over the reasons you oppose to the processing
The right to data portability – at any given time you have the right to receive the personal
information we hold about you in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format
(pdf, word etc.). You also have the right to request that these data are transferred to another
service in a safe and secure way
You also have the right to lodge a complaint at any time to the Office of the Commissioner for Personal
Data Protection.
We encourage you to contact us, should you wish to practice any of your legal rights or you have any
questions about this Privacy Policy, by sending an email to NIPD Genetics’ Data Protection Officer at
dpo@nipd.com.