Job Description

Scientist

Date: Apr 18, 2023



Location: West Chester, Pennsylvania, United States, 19380



Company: Teva Pharmaceuticals



Job Id: 47523

Who are we?

Teva is a global pharmaceutical leader and the world\'s largest generic medicines producer, committed to improving health and increasing access to quality health solutions worldwide. Our employees are at the core of our success, with colleagues in over 80 countries delivering the world\'s largest medicine cabinet to 200 million people every day. We offer a uniquely diverse portfolio of products and solutions for patients and we\'ve built a promising pipeline centered around our core therapeutic areas. We are continually developing patient-centric solutions and significantly growing both our generic and specialty medicines business through investment in research and development, marketing, business development and innovation. This is how we improve health and enable people to live better, healthier lives. Join us on our journey of growth!
Teva\xe2\x80\x99s Global Research & Development (R&D) organization is devoted to the development of new medicines, devices and combination products that provide meaningful therapeutic benefit to patients worldwide. Combining creativity, scientific rigor and our extensive knowledge on a broad range of technologies, our scientists, engineers, medical doctors and project leaders across the globe use their expertise to innovate novel biologics, biosimilars, small molecule specialty medicines, generics and over-the-counter therapies.

The Scientist will be working in the Process Development department of Biologics CMC located in West Chester, Pennsylvania as an upstream (cell culture) process development lead for delivering robust cell culture processes for novel biologics and biosimilar molecules. They will be acting as an SME (Subject Matter Expert) of cell culture process development for refining and delivering platform solutions to advance Teva\xe2\x80\x99s pipeline of biopharmaceutical products.
Responsibilities will include, but will not limited to, execution of fed-batch cell culture process development, design of experiments to drive process understanding, process characterization, and developing process control strategies from early-stage development through commercial launch.
Other duties include:

• Lead a compliant laboratory operation in accordance with SOPs, internal procedures and policies
• Lead or support technology transfers to internal or external manufacturing sites
• Author regulatory filing documents (IND, BLA, MAA)
• Contribute to product commercialization efforts by participating in cross-functional project commercialization team.
• Author technical reports for documentation of process development and tech transfer activities to internal or external manufacturing sites

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• PhD in Biochemical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Biotechnology, Biochemistry, or other related science/ engineering field (with a minimum of 2 years of experience in design and execution of studies for cell culture.)
  • or Master\xe2\x80\x99s degree with minimum 10 years of experience in the biopharmaceutical/biotech industry. (including a minimum of 2 years of experience in design and execution of studies for cell culture.
  • or Bachelor\xe2\x80\x99s degree with minimum 12 years of experience in the biopharmaceutical/biotech industry. (including a minimum of 2 years of experience in design and execution of studies for cell culture.)
    

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in cell culture process development, process characterization, and Process Performance Qualification (PPQ).
• In depth understanding of monoclonal antibody manufacturing processes
• Hands-on experience in laboratory and/or pilot scale cell culture and harvest systems
• Proficiency in process data analysis using statistical models and statistical software JMP
• Experience in authoring technical documentation and regulatory filing documents
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Function

Research & Development

Sub Function

Drug Analysis and Formulation

Reports To

In process of validation

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