Process Development Senior Associate – Process Chemistry

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Job Description

Join Amgen’s Mission of Serving Patients

At Amgen, if you feel like you’re part of something bigger, it’s because you are. Our shared mission—to serve patients living with serious illnesses—drives all that we do.

Since 1980, we’ve helped pioneer the world of biotech in our fight against the world’s toughest diseases. With our focus on four therapeutic areas –Oncology, Inflammation, General Medicine, and Rare Disease– we reach millions of patients each year. Amgen is advancing a broad and deep pipeline of medicines to treat cancer, heart disease, inflammatory conditions, rare diseases, and obesity and obesity-related conditions. As a member of the Amgen team, you’ll help make a lasting impact on the lives of patients as we research, manufacture, and deliver innovative medicines to help people live longer, fuller happier lives.

Our award-winning culture is collaborative, innovative, and science based. If you have a passion for challenges and the opportunities that lay within them, you’ll thrive as part of the Amgen team. Join us and transform the lives of patients while transforming your career.

Process Development Sr Associate

What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will be responsible for the invention, development, and implementation of drug substance manufacturing processes and technologies to advance Amgen's exciting portfolio of synthetic and hybrid assets. Process chemistry senior associates in our team collaborate with chemists, process engineers, and attribute scientists to support drug substance manufacturing from early to late-stage development. The successful candidate will be a highly motivated and team-oriented individual with prior lab-based research experience in organic chemistry or biochemistry/chemical biology.

• Work within a drug substance team comprised of chemists, engineers, and attribute scientists to solve technical problems

• Contribute to the invention of synthetic routes and development of safe, robust, and cost-effective processes to manufacture synthetic and hybrid drug substances

• Support cGMP manufacturing and technology transfer to our internal manufacturing facilities and external contract manufacturers

• Support process characterization activities, including process understanding and modeling

• Contribute to drug substance development teams by providing experimental results, technical updates, documentation, data interpretation, recommendations, etc.

• Works regularly with a supervisor to advance projects within required deadlines.

• Work cross-functionally to deliver regulatory documents and support regulatory filings

• Follows good laboratory documentation practices and standard operating procedures

What we expect of you

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The professional we seek is a leader with these qualifications.

Basic Qualifications:

Master’s degree
OR
Bachelor’s degree and 2 years of Process Development experience
OR
Associate’s degree and 4 years of Process Development experience
OR 
High school diploma / GED and 6 years of Process Development experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• M.S. in organic chemistry or biochemistry/chemical biology with a specialization in synthetic methodology, total synthesis, peptide/protein chemistry, oligonucleotide chemistry, or synthetic/conjugation chemistry

• Prior research experience in the biopharmaceutical or pharmaceutical industry

• Demonstrated ability to work in a chemistry laboratory with minimal supervision

• Ability to independently collect and interpret analytical results (NMR, HPLC, MS, IR, Raman, etc)

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, ability to multitask, effectively plan and follow through on projects

• A research summary included with CV is strongly encouraged

What you can expect of us

As we work to develop treatments that take care of others, we also work to care for your professional and personal growth and well-being. From our competitive benefits to our collaborative culture, we’ll support your journey every step of the way.

The expected annual salary range for this role in the U.S. (excluding Puerto Rico) is posted. Actual salary will vary based on several factors including but not limited to, relevant skills, experience, and qualifications.

In addition to the base salary, Amgen offers a Total Rewards Plan, based on eligibility, comprising of health and welfare p