Job Title: Sr. Scientist, Purification Process Development

Location: Toulouse
Department: Purification Process Development
Reports To: Manager, Purification Process Development

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What You’ll Do:

·       Driving all aspects of purification process development, characterization, and technology transfer to cGMP manufacturing for hybrid and continuous processes. 

·       Serving as an internal technical resource for cGMP manufacturing and Process Design as well as a resource and subject matter expert for external clients and partners for cell culture and bioreactor processes (small scale models, process transfer, and scale up) and authoring CMC regulatory sections. 

·       Clearly and effectively communicating scientific information, experimental plans, and data to internal project teams, senior management, external clients, vendors, and technology development collaborators.  

·       Independently designing, executing, and analyzing statistically designed experiments (DOE). 

·       Authoring work instructions, reports, and slides which summarize, organize, and interpret experiment results with review by appropriate team members.  

·       Training, staff and interns. 

·       Driving technology development for process intensification and continuous manufacturing to reduce manufacturing costs and footprint through improvements in culture productivity, control of product quality, and data management. 

Your profile:

·       Master’s degree in engineering, Biochemistry, Biotechnology or related field with 8 + years of experience or PhD with 5+ years of experience.

·       Proficiency in both verbal and written English is essential.

·       Expertise in purification technology and process development, transfer to cGMP manufacturing plants, and authoring CMC sections of regulatory filings. 

·       Experience with commercial process development, process characterization, and validation. 

·       Expertise in design of experiments (DOE) and statistical analysis. 

·       Experience in training, mentoring, supervising team members, leading development teams for external client projects and collaborations and internal technology development initiatives in a matrix-based system.   

Pluses 

·       Experience with high throughput process development systems is a plus 

·       Experience analyzing data in tools such as JMP, R, or Python. 

·       General understanding of cell biology, fluid dynamics, and protein chemistry as well as knowledge in other functional areas (upstream and analytical sciences). 

·       Experience working in a cGMP or clean room setting (this job is non-GMP but knowledge of GMP is helpful for process/tech transfer activities).