Scientist MS&T Drug Product (f/m/d) Full-time NEW

Scientist MS&T Drug Product (f/m/d)

Join Takeda's MS&T Drug Product Lab team and contribute to innovative vaccine manufacturing. Drive process development and optimization in formulation, filling, and lyophilization while collaborating with global teams to enhance processes and troubleshoot challenges—your hands-on DP process expertise makes the difference.

What you will contribute:

• Design, execute, and evaluate experiments in the Drug Product Lab, focusing on formulation, filling, lyophilization, and capping in both small-scale and pilot-scale automated setups
• Collaborate with teams across MS&T, CMC, QA, QC, and manufacturing to support process improvements, troubleshooting, and lifecycle management
• Identify limitations of experiments or issues during experiments, analyze causes, propose solutions and prepare technical reports and summaries
• Use scale-down models and standardized methods for process characterization and optimization
• Maintain accurate documentation and comply with quality standards
• Support lab operations via common lab tasks such as procurement, inventory management and introducing new technologies
• Assist in deviation investigations and continuous improvement projects

In this position you will report to the Manager MS&T Lab DP.

What you bring to Takeda:

• MSc in a scientific discipline with experience in vaccines or biologics drug product development, MS&T labs or start-ups, including conceptual design and execution of complex lab experiments
• Strong expertise in formulation, filling, freeze-drying and process optimization
• Hands-on experience in experimental design and troubleshooting
• Excellent communication skills in German and English
• Highly organized, detail-oriented, hands-on, with the ability to prioritize tasks, supportive and result oriented
• Hands-on mentality with lab activities to run experiments and support colleagues in execution of complex experiments.
• Experience in bioanalytical methods, live-virus vaccines, tech transfer, or cGMP manufacturing is a plus

About Us:

Takeda is focused on creating better health for people and a brighter future for the world. We aim to discover and deliver life-transforming treatments in our core therapeutic and business areas, including gastrointestinal and inflammation, rare diseases, plasma-derived therapies, oncology, neuroscience and vaccines.

In Singen, around 1,200 employees specialize in the production of liquid, semi-solid and freeze-dried medicines. Singen is the only production site in the global Takeda network for the manufacture of our new vaccine. Takeda Singen is a regionally significant employer and has been awarded the independent Top Employer certificate several years in a row. The site is characterized by its high level of diversity (e.g., more than 55 nationalities and over 40% of leaders are women), its long company history and its excellent development opportunities. The town of Singen (Hohentwiel) is located on the beautiful Lake Constance in Baden-Württemberg with a view of the Alps and close proximity to France, Liechtenstein, Austria, and Switzerland.

Takeda is proud of its commitment to create a diverse workforce and to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, parental status, national origin, age, disability, citizenship status, genetic information or characteristics, marital status, or any other characteristic protected by law. If you are living with disabilities, chronic illness, or neurodiversity, please feel free to let us know so that we can provide you with appropriate support during the application process.