Senior Scientist I, Biologics Drug Product Development

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 Twitter , Facebook , Instagram , YouTube and LinkedIn .

Job Description

The Biologics Drug Product Development (Bio DPD) is a global organization within AbbVie that is responsible for developing and characterizing drug product formulations and manufacturing processes for biologics and small molecule injectables from early development through commercialization and life cycle management support.

AbbVie is seeking a highly motivated scientist with experience in biologics drug product development to serve as a Senior Scientist I in the Bio DPD group in Lake County. This position will be an integral part of the product development and CMC teams and will have strong collaborations with the formulation and process development, and engineering teams, the Drug Product Pilot Plants, third party manufacturers and AbbVie's Operations and Commercial Manufacturing functions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Serve as subject matter expert for biologics formulation development and characterization.
• Lead the design and execution of drug product formulation development and robustness studies.
• Keep abreast of the latest advances in biologics formulation technologies.
• Initiate and/or support scientific initiatives to drive innovation, continuously enhance capabilities, and improve business processes.
• Effectively and timely communicate development plans, risks, and mitigation plans to stakeholders and line management.

Qualifications

• Bachelors, Masters, or PhD in pharmaceutics, pharmaceutical sciences, chemistry, chemical engineering, or related disciplines with 8+ (Bachelors), 6+ (Masters), or 0+ (PhD) years of relevant industry experience.
• Deep scientific knowledge and significant hands-on experience in biologics formulation and process development.
• Strong experience with protein formulation development for liquid, solid and suspension dosage forms.
• Proficiency in advanced biophysical and solid-state characterization methods.
• Experience with lyophilization process development, characterization, and modeling.
• Hands-on experience with Design of Experiments (DoE), multivariate statistical analyses and data visualization tools.
• Experience with sterile manufacturing unit operations (freeze-thaw, mixing, filtration, filling, and freeze-drying) development and scale-down models is a plus.

Key Competencies:

• Proven ability to solve critical scientific problems.
• Effectively communicates to influence without authority, drives technical excellence, and inspires continuous improvement.
• Builds strong relationships with peers and cross-functional partners to enable higher performance.
• Connects ideas from disparate fields, integrates data and information quickly, and takes risks to achieve the highest performance.
• Raises the bar and is never satisfied with the status quo.
• Creates a learning environment, open to suggestions and experimentation for improvement.
• Embraces the ideas of others, nurtures innovation and manages innovation to reality

Additional Information

Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law:

• The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, and we may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future.
• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.
• This job is eligible to participate in our short-term incentive programs.

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole and absolute discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company's sole and absolute discretion, consistent with applicable law.

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