Associate Scientist, Process Development II

About AbbVie
AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines 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, eye care, virology, women's health and gastroenterology, in addition to products and services across its Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com . Follow @abbvie on Twitter , Facebook , Instagram , YouTube and LinkedIn .

Key responsibilities:

• Develop recovery and purification process that utilizes clarification, chromatography, and membrane filtration technologies for recombinant proteins
• Design and execute innovative process development and characterization activities, impurity and viral clearance studies
• Is responsible for technology transfer to scale-up labs and manufacturing facilities, troubleshooting and investigation activities
• Act as lead purification scientist in a project CMC team and collaborate with cross-functional team members to drive the project progress toward milestones
• Address and solve technical problems independently, conceive and implement innovative process research ideas, evaluate and integrate state-of-the-art technology to improve manufacturing platform, pursue deep understanding of the process and product, and demonstrate a high level of scientific initiative
• Author technical report, support and contribute to regulatory filings
• Provide project update and analysis to cross-functional team and management
• Present original work internally across departments and at internal and external conferences
• May author or co-author peer-reviewed scientific papers or patents

Qualifications

Qualifications:

• BS, MS, or PhD degree in chemical engineering or biochemical engineering or related disciplines
• 10-12+ (BS), 8-10+ (MS), or 0-3+ (PhD) years of experiences in protein purification process development and/or manufacturing support
• Sound scientific understanding of protein separation technologies and ability to explore and develop new approaches to further advance innovative purification technologies desirable
• Experiences in protein chromatography, membrane filtration, mechanistic and process modeling, a plus
• Basic knowledge in related functional areas, such as cell culture, protein chemistry and analytics or formulation, a plus
• Demonstrated record of independent thinking, creativity and scientific accomplishment (e.g. peer reviewed journal publications, patents)
• Candidate must be a goal oriented team player with excellent verbal and written communication skills

Key Leadership Competencies:

• Builds strong relationships with peers and cross functionally with partners outside of team to enable higher performance
• Learns fast, grasps the "essence" and can change course quickly where indicated
• 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

Significant Work Activities
N/A
Travel
Yes, 5 % of the Time
Job Type
Experienced
Schedule
Full-time
Job Level Code
IC
Equal Employment Opportunity
At AbbVie, we value bringing together individuals from diverse backgrounds to develop new and innovative solutions for patients. As an equal opportunity employer we do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy), physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, protected veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristic.