Scientist - VIE Contract 

• Location: Canada, Toronto 
• Target start date: 01/05/2025

iMove, the Sanofi VIE Program, is available to citizens of the European Economic Area (EU + Norway, Liechtenstein and Iceland) aged between 18 and 28. 

PLEASE NOTE that since this program is primarily an international development program, candidates cannot apply to a VIE assignment in their own country of citizenship. 

PLEASE NOTE that applications that are only submitted in French cannot be considered by our non-French speaking partners at Sanofi worldwide. Therefore, only applications that are submitted in English will be considered. Please make sure to apply with your personal email address. 

About the job

Are you ready to shape the future of medicine? The race is on to speed up drug discovery and development to find answers for patients and their families. Your skills could be critical in helping our teams accelerate progress. Join our Microbiology and Virology team as Scientist VIE and you’ll Test Method Development, Test Method Validation, Test Method Transfer, and support projects.

We are an innovative global healthcare company that helps the world stay ahead of infectious diseases by delivering more than 500 million vaccine doses a year. Across different countries, our talented teams are exploring new technologies to protect people and promote healthy communities. We chase the miracles of science every single day, pursuing progress to make a real impact on millions of patients around the world.

Main responsibilities:

• Support development of new or improved test methods for new and licensed vaccine entity characterization, stability testing and release, understand requirements for test methods and project milestones by interacting with analytical working groups and Platform directors, maintain GxP (good manufacturing practice) compliance, where required, in all testing programs, and review and approve test method technical reports.
• Validate analytical test methods in support of release and stability testing. Write, review, approve and execute validation protocols and approve validation reports, and present results to working groups and platform director. 
• Support the transfer of analytical test methods in support of release and stability testing into receiving departments and the training of analysts.
• Participate and contribute to analytical working groups as required to support project milestones. 
• Review scientific literature for application to vaccine development and characterization and make recommendations, contribute to development of new platform technologies, support communication of research findings to the scientific community and to Senior Management.

About you

Experience:

• Relevant experience in Virology and/or Microbiology for minimum 1 year is preferred.
• Specific experience in the development of new virological, microbiological, biochemical and immunochemical characterization methods for biomolecules/vaccines.
• Experience in maintaining laboratories and equipment in cGMP (Good Manufacturing Practice) and/or GLP (Good Laboratory Practice) compliance.

Soft and technical skills:

• Proven verbal and written communication, organizational and team skills.
• Knowledge of basic Microbiological and Virological techniques, Cell Culture, growth of bacteria and viruses.
• Familiar with a broad range of analytical instrumentation.
• Familiarity with testing in compliance with current regulations is preferred.

Education:

• Master’s Degree in Microbiology, Virology or similar.

Languages:

• Knowledge of English & French language.

Why choose us? 

iMove is a unique program tailored for European youth interested in challenging themselves with meaningful assignments across the globe. At Sanofi we have a strong ambition to invest in young talents who will drive the success of Sanofi tomorrow. 

Sanofi’s Work Abroad Program, iMove, offers jobs-assignments with actual responsibilities and a perspective to grow. We provide those opportunities in various functions such as: marketing, finance, regulatory, supply chain, clinical trials, production, etc. and in more than 40 countries. Sanofi unites people who are passionate about solving healthcare needs across the world. Joining our iMove Work Abroad Program is a unique opportunity to make a difference through your work. 

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Better is out there. Better medications, better outcomes, better science. But progress doesn’t happen without people – people from different backgrounds, in different locations, doing different roles, all united by one thing: a desire to make miracles happen. So, let’s be those people.

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