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Senior Scientist

GSK
Upper Providence, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 4 Mar 2024

About the role

Are you looking for a collaborative analytical chemist role that allows you to contribute to scientific strategy and accelerate Pharmaceutical Research and Development? If so, this role could be an ideal opportunity to explore.

GSK is a world leading research-based pharmaceutical company that combines both individual talent and technical resources to create a platform for the delivery of strong growth in a rapidly changing healthcare market. Our mission is to improve the quality of human life by enabling people to do more, feel better, live longer, and get ahead of disease together.

Medicine Development and Supply is a highly experienced Chemistry, Manufacturing and Controls (CMC) organization accountable for delivering robust, cost effective and competitive products and manufacturing processes spanning the full life-cycle of asset development from Discovery through commercialization. These activities are delivered through state-of-the-art internal facilities as well as strategic external partners. Collectively, the team is accountable for CMC activities encompassing cell line development, cell culture/ microbial fermentation, purification development, and drug product/ device development. We also pioneer innovative technologies to improve robustness, reduce cost of goods, and improve the patient experience.

As a Senior Scientist, you will design and perform experiments that develop, validate, and implement various analytical methods using state-of-the art analytical technologies that focus on product quality and/or process-specific analytes, and support various aspects of biopharmaceutical process development and manufacturing. You will be involved in all aspects of the biopharmaceutical development, including engagement with project teams and other stakeholders for various projects in different stages of development.

This role will provide YOU the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR career.

These responsibilities include some of the following:

  • Develop and perform assays that support the development, release and stability testing of Biopharmaceutical drug substance and drug product.
  • Review of experiments, stability protocols, and other key documents.
  • Influence the direction of associated analytical control strategies across the biopharm process.
  • Contribute and support departmental cross-training activities on analytical techniques used for analysis of biopharm molecules.
  • Agile support of cross-modality (Large/Small molecule, Oligo, Vaccines) functions within the organization.
  • Contribute to sections for patents or regulatory submissions, as well as scientific papers and internal reports.

Why you?

Basic Qualifications:

We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:

  • BS with 3+ years’ experience.
  • Experience in analytical separations methods such as HPLC, uHPLC, cIEF, or CGE.
  • Experience with assay development/validation, pharmacopeia compliance, and analytical life cycle management.

Preferred Qualifications:

If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:

  • Understanding of the biopharmaceutical product lifecycle.
  • Experience with analytical support of challenging biopharmaceutical formulations and use of automation.
  • Knowledge of protein analytical & biochemical techniques such as HPLC, UPLC, capillary electrophoresis, LC-MS or 2D-HPLC.
  • Analytical Quality by Design approaches.

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Please visit  GSK US Benefits Summary to learn more about the comprehensive benefits program GSK offers US employees.

Why Us?

GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose – to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together – so we can positively impact the health of billions of people and deliver stronger, more sustainable shareholder returns – as an organization where people can thrive. Getting ahead means preventing disease as well as treating it, and we aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of 2030.

Our success absolutely depends on our people. While getting ahead of disease together is about our ambition for patients and shareholders, it’s also about making GSK a place where people can thrive. We want GSK to be a workplace where everyone can feel a sense of belonging and thrive as set out in our Equal and Inclusive Treatment of Employees policy. We’re committed to being more proactive at all levels so that our workforce reflects the communities we work and hire in, and our GSK leadership reflects our GSK workforce.

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