Senior Scientist II, Analytical Chemistry- Predictive Stability and Structure Elucidation

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Abb Vie Analytical Research & Development (Analytical R&D) is a global analytical scientific organization responsible for all CMC analytical activities related to the development of Abb Vie's pharmaceutical products. Our scope includes Abb Vie's diverse pipeline of innovative small molecule medicines and spans from the selection of Discovery candidate molecules to Late Stage Clinical. We are building a world‑class team of scientists and leaders who will drive the advancement of industry‑leading analytical capabilities and make meaningful contributions to advance Abb Vie's pipeline of innovative medicines.

Careers in Abb Vie Analytical R&D provide unique opportunities to work with global and cross‑functional teams to drive exceptional science and innovative product development strategies. We are looking for diverse candidates with strong scientific experience to join the Abb Vie Analytical R&D team and can offer exciting and rewarding career opportunities for these candidates.

For the Senior Scientist II position, we are seeking a highly motivated candidate who can conceive, implement and execute novel scientific research and development. Generate new scientific proposals and lead these efforts. Act as a lead scientist in his/her area of expertise and critically evaluate relevant scientific and regulatory advances and integrate this knowledge into research and development programs. As part of the Predictive Stability and Structure Elucidation team, they will collaborate with analytical and cross‑functional teams to build the understanding of stability attributes and degradation pathways for synthetic molecule APIs.

He/she should possess an understanding of core discipline and support early phase development of New Chemical Entities (NCEs) drug substance and drug product in both preclinical and clinical programs. Collaborate within the global Analytical R&D organization and with R&D cross‑functional partners such as Pre‑Clinical Safety (PCS), Process Chemistry, Process Engineering, Drug Product Development (DPD), and Quality Assurance (QA) and CMC‑Regulatory.

• Apply analytical separation and detection modes for complex impurity profiling of pharmaceutical products to further the understanding of emerging cGMP manufacturing processes.
• Responsible for leading the predictive stability aspects of a project while working with other functional areas to advance projects through the development pipeline.
• Utilize understanding of a range of analytical techniques to conduct research and development studies related to small‑molecule drug products, active pharmaceutical ingredients, intermediates, starting materials, impurities and impurity profiling.
• Support new product development with advanced methods development and validations, technical transfer packages, and generation of technical data in support regulatory requirements.
• Highly autonomous and productive in performing laboratory research or method development, requiring only minimal direction from or interaction with supervisor.
• Formulate conclusions and design follow‑on experiments based on multidisciplinary data.
• May initiate new areas of investigation that are scientifically meaningful, reliable, and can be incorporated directly into a research or development program.
• Process, interpret, and visualize data to facilitate project team decisions.
• Communicate and collaborate with cross‑functional groups and departments.
• Routinely demonstrate scientific initiative and creativity in research or development activities and maintain a high level of productivity in the lab.
• Responsible for method development, testing procedures, and implementation of…