Why Patients Need You  

Pfizer’s purpose is to deliver breakthroughs that change patients’ lives. Research and Development is at the heart of fulfilling Pfizer’s purpose as we work to translate advanced science and technologies into the therapies and vaccines that matter most. Whether you are in the discovery sciences, ensuring drug safety and efficacy or supporting clinical trials, you will apply cutting edge design and process development capabilities to accelerate and bring the best-in-class medicines to patients around the world.  

What You Will Achieve  

As a Senior Associate Scientist, you will be at the center of our operations and you’ll find that everything we do, every day, is in line with an unwavering commitment to quality. You will assist with development and qualification of bioanalytical methods in support of characterization, toxicology and stability studies for bioprocess and formulation development of early phase vaccines.

Your significant experience of applying knowledge of principles, concepts, and practices of the discipline will make you a critical member of the team. You are proactive in contributing to all team discussions and creating an environment of collaboration.

It is your innovative scientific temperament that will help in making Pfizer ready to achieve new milestones and help patients across the globe

It is your hard work and dedication that will make Pfizer ready to achieve new milestones and help patients across the globe.  

How You Will Achieve It  

• Apply technical skills to complete assigned work within own work group/project team. 

• Conduct scientific studies to support quantitative bioanalsyis and provide solutions to technical problems. 

• Be a collaborative member of your team by collaborating with other colleagues to support bioanalytical sample analysis consistent with drug development timelines.

• Work closely with scientists, analysts, and other colleagues to meet study objectives

• Support the authorship of development reports, and regulatory submission documents. 

• Support initiatives to develop best practices, test methods, and work processes to drive efficiencies.

• Effectively communicate experimental observations and results. 

• Follow instructions to complete time sensitive assignments and contribute to the completion of project experiments and milestones.  

• Record experimental details and data into an electronic (digital) laboratory notebook. 

• Review the laboratory experiments and other written records of fellow scientists. 

• Ensure safe working practices are followed and maintained both in their own and others’ work.   

Qualifications  

Must-Have  

• Bachelor's Degree (BA/BS) with 3+ years of experience OR Master's Degree with 0+ years of experience. 

• Excellent organizational and communication (oral and written) skills. 

• Comfort in using computational models.  

• Knowledge and hands-on experience developing ligand-binding assays, utilizing various platforms and demonstrated analytical problem solving skills

• Broad understanding and skill in areas of bioanalytical laboratory techniques for biotherapeutics

• Ability to use appropriate software to perform analysis of data

• Experience with experimental design and the interpretation of results

• Effective verbal and written communication skills

• Proficiency with personal computers, including word processing, Excel, PowerPoint and relevant scientific software

Nice-to-Have