Senior/Staff Scientist-Analytical chemistry Full-time

Senior/Staff Scientist (Analytical Chemistry)

At Johnson & Johnson, we believe health is everything. Our strength in healthcare innovation empowers us to build a world where complex diseases are prevented, treated, and cured, where treatments are smarter and less invasive, and solutions are personal. Through our expertise in Innovative Medicine and MedTech, we are uniquely positioned to innovate across the full spectrum of healthcare solutions today to deliver the breakthroughs of tomorrow, and profoundly impact health for humanity.

Job Function: Supply Chain Engineering

Job Sub Function: Chemical Engineering

Job Category: Scientific/Technology

All Job Posting Locations: Suzhou, Jiangsu, China

Job Description:

Key Responsibilities:

• By working with other scientists and engineers, participating in designing & developing hemostats, sealants, or other surgical products according to R&D strategic priorities.
• Develop and characterize prototypes and/or product processes to develop and optimize new product ideas.
• Develop and validate the test methods to support new product development in synthetic hemostat or sealants.
• Develop and apply statistical methodologies to analyze experimental data, interpret results, as well as prepare technical reports, present results and recommendations to project teams.
• By working with front end team and strategic marketing team, seeking opportunities to address unmet medical needs and realize the opportunities through new product development.
• Work with patent liaison and attorneys to develop and protect intellectual property of new inventions.
• Follow safety and GxP guidelines including maintaining up-to-date training, following SOPs, maintaining equipment, and proper documentation of laboratory notebooks and logbooks.

Qualifications

Education:

• PhD or master's degree in analytical chemistry, applied chemistry, polymer chemistry or related field required.

Experience and Skills:

Required:

• Experience in analytical chemical test method development, including and not limited to chromatographic methods (HPLC, GC), NMR, FT-IR, UV–visible spectrophotometry, Mass-spectrometry (LC-MS, GC-MS), and etc and test method validation are required.
• Experience in Biomaterial syntheses, and/or synthetic polymers characterization is required.
• A minimum of 5 years of professional experience in medical device or pharmaceuticals related, or material science field is required.
• Demonstrated experience working in cross-functional teams is required.
• Demonstrated ability to independently design, execute research studies and interpret results is required.
• Strong digital literacy and knowledge of various programs such as Microsoft Office, Word, Excel, Power Point as well as commonly used graphing software and team-based collaboration tools are required.

Preferred:

• Experiences in pharmaceutical or CRO company are preferred.
• In-depth understanding of Drug or Medical Devices regulations is preferred.
• Experience in developing formulations of surgical products for management of intra-operative bleeds/leaks (hemostats or sealants) are preferred.
• Familiarity with statistical analysis and design of experiments is preferred.

Other:

• Excellent verbal & written communication skills.
• Candidates must be self-starter, detail-oriented, highly organized.
• Displays passion and enthusiasm for innovation.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Superior interpersonal skills to collaborate with internal and external business partners across functional areas.