AbbVie

Company Description

AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas – immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care – and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn.

Job Description

We are seeking a highly motivated Senior Scientist I to join our Manufacturing Science and Technology (MSAT) group in the S&T Biologics at AbbVie Bioresearch Center based in Worcester, MA. As part of the S&T Biologics organization, our group leads the process technology transfer, optimization, validation, implementation, and continuous improvement for late-stage and commercial manufacturing of therapeutic proteins for AbbVie . We also provide technical support for manufacturing, GMP compliance, and regulatory filing. The candidate should have extensive experience and comprehensive knowledge in process development, characterization, validation and purification strategies to solve complex challenges across the AbbVie pipeline. The candidate is expected to mentor and to supervise junior level scientists and productively manage several projects simultaneously in a dynamic and rapidly evolving project landscape. 

Responsibilities:

• Lead team on the design, execution, and data-analysis for process development, characterization, optimization, validation, and continuous process verifications.
• Identify, evaluate, and develop innovative technologies within the field of purification. processes to improve product quality, and process efficiency and robustness.
• Lead team on technology and process transfer to pilot scale and GMP plants of therapeutic proteins.
• Solve technical issues and support GMP manufacturing of therapeutic proteins.
• Participate in cross-functional teams to support CMC sections of regulatory filings.
• Author technical reports and validation documents.
• Interact with cross-functional groups (e.g. discovery, process development, protein analytics, manufacturing, quality, and regulatory).
• Author peer-reviewed articles and patents and present original work in conferences.

Qualifications

• Degree in Chemical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, or Biochemical Engineering or related discipline and industry with 10+ years (BS), 8+ years (MS), or 0+ years (PhD) of relevant pharmaceutical industry experience for Senior Scientist I.
• Outstanding record of accomplishment in areas of bioprocess development, improvement, and validation. 
• Experience in managing technical professionals is required
• Strong written and oral communication skills and the ability to contribute in a multi-disciplinary environment are essential.
• Interacts well with diverse groups within function and maintains strong working relationships with internal, global, and external collaborators.
• Demonstrated problem-solving skills and capability to overcome complexed issues.
• Demonstrated success in coordinating and executing important projects to achieve business unit goals.
• Must have a “results-oriented” work ethic and a positive, “can-do” attitude with a strong sense of urgency and self-motivated desire to achieve.

Additional Information

Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law:

• The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, and we may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future.
• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.
• This job is eligible to participate in our short-term incentive programs.

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole and absolute discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, consistent with applicable law.

AbbVie is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives, serving our community and embracing diversity and inclusion. It is AbbVie’s policy to employ qualified persons of the greatest ability without discrimination against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy), physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected group status.