Senior Scientist, Pharmacy I

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

Purpose: Support the AbbVie Technical Operation functions and the AbbVie Technical Centers worldwide. Identify and resolve manufacturing issues for commercial and Research and Development products. Provides technical support to cross-functional teams during development, commercial launch or problem solving for a given drug product. Accountable to suggest and direct product improvements or alternate manufacturing strategies that meet the highest standards in quality, customer service and regulatory compliance. Errors in process changes could lead to audit citations and regulatory action or affect programs & projects.

Responsibilities: 

• Provide guidance (scientific and administrative) for junior pharmaceutical scientists.
• Liaison between functional groups as well as sister divisions (ie Operations, Quality, Regulatory, Validation, Materials Management, R&D, Analytical Test Labs, Stability and API)
• Capable of working totally independently and providing technical support to a project team.
• Provide individual technical support of all scale-up activities and maintain timelines for on-going projects.
• Write/co-author process memos and scientific reports in support of Regulatory Submissions, Regulatory Field Alerts and supportive quality control and manufacturing documents.
• Responsibility of writing and/or reviewing deviations, NCMRs and investigations in terms of the technical content.
• Anticipate, recognize and resolve problems.
• Provides guidance/mentoring for summer interns in the department.
• Provides technical support for introduction of new products and for process improvements to existing products.