Summary
About the Role
Major Accountabilities:
- Oversee and lead all activities of assigned teams /projects; meet customer needs.
- Work according to appropriate standards for quality, ethics, health, safety, environment, protection and information security; lead initiatives to ensure continuous improvement; all activities have to be aligned with organizational workflows and procedures.
- Evaluate and interpret results, draw relevant conclusions; supervise project related activities; perform complex tasks without having established procedures.
- Oversess and may also write protocols, scientific reports, lab procedures or process.
- related SOPs; write scientific documents intended for external partners or for generation of registration documents; interact with authorities -Communicate, address and solve problems within own and broader area of responsibility; communicate effectively across organizational interfaces; lead the transfer of know how to other departments or external contractors, including troubleshooting and on-site training.
- For technical development units: Develop complex methods (lab or plant); lead the optimization of project related scientific /technical activities or processes, co-ordinate local team(s); guide development and implementation of new technologies.
- For GMP units: ensure compliance to cGMP.
- For technology focused role: Provide scientific and technical guidance; actively foster knowledge exchange.
- Develop, mentor and coach other scientific associates; present scientific /technical results internally and contribute to publications, presentations and patents.
- For project-focused role: Lead assigned teams; represent own technical function in teams and fulfill all project tasks and responsibilities related to the own discipline -Broadly uses professional concepts in accordance with company objectives to solve complex problems in creative and effective ways -Contributes to many cost center goals and objectives; may contribute to service line goals.
Minimum Requirements
- Ph.D. with 4-6 years of relevant postdoctoral and/or industry experience in pharmaceutical sciences, analytical chemistry, or a related discipline; alternatively, M.Pharm./M.Sc. with at least 8-12 years of relevant industrial experience
- Strong expertise in the qualitative and quantitative analysis of oligonucleotides, peptides, and small molecules using LC-MS, HRMS, and other advanced mass spectrometry-based analytical techniques.
- Demonstrated ability to develop, optimize, and execute sensitive analytical methods for impurity profiling and trace-level quantification of genotoxic impurities (GTIs), nitrosamines, and nitrites in drug substances and drug products .
- Sound understanding of mass spectrometry workflows, data interpretation, and structural elucidation.
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Accessibility and accommodation
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