Senior Scientist, Chemistry II

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 Process Chemistry department is responsible for the scale-up of active pharmaceutical ingredients (API) for the use in preclinical and early clinical studies.  The Separations group is a part of Process Chemistry and is responsible for preparative scale purification of APIs in a GMP environment using reverse phase, normal phase, chiral phase and other types of chromatography.  The separations team also works collaboratively to identify trace impurities and deliver other chromatography driven results with our project teams.  Training in both separation science as well as organic synthesis is required.

The Senior Scientist II Chemistry position has these key responsibilities: 

• Direct workflow around chromatographic separations to facilitate project goals across different projects, modalities and phases of development.
• Keep accurate and current records of research and/or project-related documents according to AbbVie policies.
• Staying current with advances in the separations field.  Act as advocate to integrate this knowledge into the group’s research efforts.  Generate new research or development strategies to effectively address project and divisional goals/needs.  Collaborate with functional and technical experts to facilitate scientific achievement. 
• Show flexibility in providing support in Process Chemistry as project demands require.

Qualifications

Qualifications

• A PhD in organic or analytical chemistry and 2-4 years of experience; MS in organic or analytical chemistry and xx years of experience; BS in organic or analytical chemistry and xx years of experience
• Experience leading direct reports
• Experience with chromatography