Senior Scientist I/II, Analytical Chemistry

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.

Analytical chemist responsible for commercial and pipeline small molecule development within Science and Technology, Pharmaceutical Product Group.

Key Responsibilities Include:

• Lead analytical teams in drug development activities. Mentor other team members for technical capability development. Provide project proposals and reviews, resource estimation and tracking, and periodical updates to management.
• Independently design experiments, review data and complete results interpretation and reporting. Prepare and review regulatory submission documents.
• Leading the analytical aspects of a project while collaborating with other CMC development functions and other areas in AbbVie to advance drug development.
• Responsible for method development, testing procedures, and implementation of analytical controls to support late stage analytical development.
• Initiate new areas of investigation that are scientifically meaningful, reliable, and can be incorporated directly into a development program.
• Applying analytical separation and detection modes, such as LC-MS, GC-MS, or ICP-MS for complex impurity identification/quantitation or low level metal quantitation.
• Support commercial manufacturing by participating as an analytical expert in investigations, trouble shoot analytical method issues, and improve method execution.
• Implement a wide range of current analytical techniques to conduct research and development studies related to drug product development.
• Introduce technologies to analytical chemistry labs, such as new separation technology, new techniques in mass spectrometry, data science, and data trending.
• Perform routine and non-routine testing of development, release, and stability samples.