Senior Associate Scientist, Compound Management

Why Patients Need You

Pfizer’s purpose is to deliver breakthroughs that change patients’ lives. Research and Development is at the heart of fulfilling Pfizer’s purpose as we work to translate advanced science and technologies into the therapies and vaccines that matter most. Whether you are in the discovery sciences, ensuring drug safety and efficacy or supporting clinical trials, you will apply cutting edge design and process development capabilities to accelerate and bring the best-in-class medicines to patients around the world.

What You Will Achieve

As a Senior Associate Scientist, you will be at the center of our operations and you’ll find that everything we do, every day, is in line with an unwavering commitment to quality. 

A Senior Associate Scientist, Compound Management (CM) within the Liquid Store plays an important role specializing in working with automation, troubleshooting, data handling and material logistics to facilitate the transfer of compounds in our corporate collection in the proper format for screening both across the Pfizer enterprise and externally. This is a lab-based role which requires hands-on interactions with automated, liquid handling systems and an expert knowledge of our workflows and systems with the expectation that they can provide immediate assistance, education, and training for colleagues, contractors, and visitors on an as needed basis. 

To accomplish this, the individual will operate unattended as well on teams to drive daily problem solving and process enhancements decisions by contributing impactful, innovative ideas against defined goals while partnering with our screening stakeholders, Digital (IT), Global Operations, and external vendors in line with our business goals.

Your ability to apply your knowledge of principles, concepts, and practices of the discipline will make you a critical member of the team. You are proactive in contributing to all team discussions and creating an environment of inclusion and collaboration.

It is your hard work and focus that will help in making Pfizer ready to achieve new milestones and help patients across the globe.

How You Will Achieve It

• Contribute to achievement of immediate work group goals, collaborate with other team members and reach out to external resources as needed.

• Satisfactorily completes safety training in conformance with requirements.

• Develop customized solutions to address analysis, storage, and curation of data generated by various compound management systems.

• Develop expert level knowledge in the operation and troubleshooting of lab automation to support screening campaigns by providing near and assay ready plates.

• Develop expert level knowledge of all relative Liquid Store LIMS and associated software which directly impacts daily production needs and short and long-term project-specific goals based on detailed knowledge of our operational capabilities.

• Collaborate with team members and partners to design and continuously improve workflows to increase capacity and throughput to ensure on-time delivery of requests.

• Maintain the Pfizer compound collection and develop innovative solutions which contribute towards good compound stewardship.

• Develop custom applications to address ad-hoc compound management workflows enabling end-to-end integration from compound stock to screening data publication.  

• Collaborate with the Pfizer Digital line to develop enterprise level solutions that address data analysis, storage, and curation, including the ability to mine data for insights that support decision making. 

• Execute qualifications/validations of new instruments and custom methods.

• Organize assigned work according to established departmental priorities.

• Interact with external vendors to obtain quotes and submit purchases where applicable.

Qualifications

Must-Have

• Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Biochemistry, Biology, Pharmacology, Chemistry or a related field with 3-5 years of experience in a related field either working in a lab with a LIMS or working with large scientific or related data sets. OR master’s degree in engineering, Computer Science, Biochemistry, Biology, Pharmacology, Chemistry or a related field, with some relevant work experience

• Demonstration of excellent computer, verbal and written communication skills

• Proficiency with personal computers, including a working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications and relevant scientific software.

• Experience with experimental design and the interpret