Senior Scientist

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

We are excited to invite applications for a Senior Scientist to join our Technical Operations (Pharmaceutical) team in Abbvie, North Dublin on a permanent basis.

This is an exciting and challenging role where you will have technical ownership of commercially launched products and new product introductions to the site (spanning developmental studies and clinical manufacturing up to validation and post-commercialization changes) with a particular focus on the manufacturing process, scale-up, equipment understanding, and statistical evaluations. Thorough hands-on support of bulk manufacturing, driving production performance KPIs, proactively championing new technologies, and leading troubleshooting investigations - all with a high sense of urgency and high level of technical confidence with full GMP compliance.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Continuous oversight with a hands-on mentality on product performance, periodic reviews with senior leadership, and timely authorship of product baseline reports
• Leading investigations of process deviations with a high sense of urgency to quantify the potential impact on product quality
• Authoring and issuing Batch manufacturing records and technical protocols
• Technical support for new product introductions until validation
• Applying sound and critical reasoning to troubleshoot complex process challenges
• Tracking and trending of product and process data, statistical evaluation of data
• Creating and delivering effective and persuasive presentations on complex topics to upper management.
• Actively drive plant performance, with a special focus on cost improvement programs