Principal Research Scientist I PDS&T

Company Description

AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas – immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care – and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on X, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn and Tik Tok.

Job Description

The PDS&T Parenterals/Eye Care group is seeking a motivated Senior Scientist as a CMC drug product project lead, specifically for parenteral drug product process development and commercial site scale up and tech transfer. The candidate will independently design and execute lab studies to develop robust manufacturing processes for clinical phase and commercial products. This person will generate and analyze precise, reliable, and reproducible data in a timely manner, independently or under the direction of a more senior scientific leader. This position will be an integral part of the product development and CMC teams and is highly collaborative across functions such as analytical, process engineering, internal and external manufacturing, quality assurance, CMC regulatory affairs,  supply chain and Operations Manufacturing Sites.

Responsibilities:

• Independently design and conduct critical experiments that further project goals. Implement and may innovate new experimental protocols/techniques for parenteral DP characterization studies to enable process scale up.
• Interpret results and draw conclusions from own multistage experiments, note significant deviations, then suggest, design, and pursue relevant experiments.
• Tech transfer activities for parenteral DP from development scale up to clinical/commercial scale.
• Support drug product manufacture at GMP facilities from clinical to PPQ and commercial batches.
• Understand relevant scientific literature and apply theoretical framework to solving problems within scientific discipline in a timely manner.
• Authoring of comprehensive, scientifically sound reports, e.g. development reports or risk assessments that serve as sour