Senior Scientist, II Full-time

Job Title

The Development Sciences Biologics Drug Product Development organization within AbbVie develops and characterizes drug product formulations and manufacturing processes to provide clinical dosage forms to enable the development of AbbVie's pipeline.

AbbVie is seeking a highly motivated person to join the Biologics CMC Developability Team. Our team utilizes state-of-the-art biophysical and analytical instrumentation to support the early-stage assessment of candidates coming out of the Discovery pipeline with the opportunity to influence the design and development of stable drug product formulation and manufacturing processes for biologics used in clinical trials. Key to our success is implementing data capture tools and laboratory automation. To leverage our data for modeling, we are seeking to add a data scientist to our team. The successful candidate will leverage deep experience in data science and familiarity with protein analysis to operationalize predictive modeling. In addition, the candidate will be expected to drive key scientific initiatives and lead innovative approaches to improve current workflows. In this role, the candidate will be a member of a global team and will work closely with scientists from multiple functional areas, including Discovery, Development Science Digital Transformation, and Information Research.

Responsibilities

• Lead overall BCD team strategy for digital systems automation, enabling seamless integration of digital capture workflows into emerging paradigms of predictive modeling, laboratory automation, and active learning cycles.
• Coordinate efforts with internal and external partners for digital systems design, improvement and training.
• Empower BCD Team through enabling access to databased information.
• May develop fit for purpose tools for workflow automation, data interpretation and analysis. If tools are desired for enterprise support, this individual would be responsible for overseeing transfer to enterprise support teams.
• Identifies emerging scientific and technological trends from multiple internal and external sources, assesses relevance and integrates applicable trends into BCD plans and strategies as appropriate. Present data at internal and external professional conferences and prepare manuscripts for publication in peer reviewed journals or patent applications.
• Lead developability assessment activities for 1-2 Discovery Projects at a time.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent education and typically 12 years of experience OR Master's Degree or equivalent education and typically 10 years of experience OR PhD and typically 4 years of experience.
• Extensive experience with scientific workflows and key data associated with these workflows is required.
• The ideal candidate brings a blend of scientific experience in a scientific discipline in CMC Development of biologics and strong IT /data analytics skills
• Skilled at querying and cleaning data from both relational and graph databases
• Experience with standard programming languages
• Works with diverse groups with a range of functional and IT systems experience; maintains strong working relationships with internal and external collaborators.

Key Competencies

• Builds strong relationships with peers and cross functionally with partners outside of the team to enable higher performance.
• Excellent oral communication skills in a scientific setting as well as sound technical writing and documentation competencies are required.
• The candidate must be able to work independently, respond to changing priorities and short lead times for multiple tasks; able to identify problems and work toward solutions.
• 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

• 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.

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Pay Range: $106500 – 202500 USD