Senior Scientist, II

Role Summary

The Development Sciences Biologics Drug Product Development organization supports the design and development of stable drug product formulations and manufacturing processes for biologics used in clinical trials. The role focuses on leveraging data science to operationalize predictive modeling, drive key scientific initiatives, and improve current workflows within a global, cross-functional team.

Responsibilities

• Lead overall BCD team strategy for digital systems automation, enabling seamless integration of digital capture workflows into emerging paradigms of predictive modeling, laboratory automation, and active learning cycles.
• Coordinate efforts with internal and external partners for digital systems design, improvement and training.
• Empower BCD Team through enabling access to databased information.
• May develop fit for purpose tools for workflow automation, data interpretation and analysis. If tools are desired for enterprise support, this individual would be responsible for overseeing transfer to enterprise support teams.
• Identifies emerging scientific and technological trends from multiple internal and external sources, assesses relevance and integrates applicable trends into BCD plans and strategies as appropriate. Present data at internal and external professional conferences and prepare manuscripts for publication in peer reviewed journals or patent applications.
• Lead developability assessment activities for 1-2 Discovery Projects at a time.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent education and typically 12 years of experience OR Master’s Degree or equivalent education and typically 10 years of experience OR PhD and typically 4 years of experience.
• Extensive experience with scientific workflows and key data associated with these workflows is required.
• The ideal candidate brings a blend of scientific experience in a scientific discipline in CMC Development of biologics and strong IT /data analytics skills
• Skilled at querying and cleaning data from both relational and graph databases
• Experience with standard programming languages
• Works with diverse groups with a range of functional and IT systems experience; maintains strong working relationships with internal and external collaborators.

Skills

• Builds strong relationships with peers and cross functionally with partners outside of the team to enable higher performance.
• Excellent oral communication skills in a scientific setting as well as sound technical writing and documentation competencies are required.
• The candidate must be able to work independently, respond to changing priorities and short lead times for multiple tasks; able to identify problems and work toward solutions.
• Raises the bar and is never satisfied with the status quo.
• Creates a learning environment, open to suggestions and experimentation for improvement.
• Embraces the ideas of others, nurtures innovation and manages innovation to reality.

Education

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent education and typically 12 years of experience OR Master’s Degree or equivalent education and typically 10 years of experience OR PhD and typically 4 years of experience.