Summary
About the Role
Major accountabilities:
- Coordinate, review and release of quality control tests on biologics drug substances (Physicochemical testing, e.g. HPLC, Capillary Electrophoresis, UV) ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements
- Maintain excellent planning and collaboration with project team members (e.g. laboratory analysts, production specialists, manufacturing science and technology, quality assurance, regulatory CMC, project leaders and colleagues)
- Participate in or create, review, approve registration documents
- Manage analytical weak points of assigned pipeline
- Perform deviations/OOX investigation
- Support troubleshooting for testing procedures and make recommendations for improvements, with a focus on HPLC and Capillary Electrophoresis, Bioburden and Endotoxin
- Lead validation and transfer activities for analytical procedures
- Lead qualification, maintenance, and calibration of instruments
- Lead LabOpex Projects
Key performance indicators:
- Timely completion of key deliverables
- Prompt reporting of missed deadlines and aim for shortest possible lead times
- Consistently follow the GMP and GSU guidelines, and SOPs, ensuring no critical irregularities continuous readiness for inspection
- Proactively identify and implement cost-reducing optimizations
Minimum Requirements:
- MSc or PhD in biotechnology, analytical chemistry or related field, +3 years industry experience
- Good IT skills (MS Office) and laboratory software like LIMS, Chromeleon, Empower are an advantage
- Reliability, flexibility, resilience, and strong teamwork skills
Skills:
- Continuous learning
- Dealing with ambiguity
- Decision making
- GMP
- Industry standards
- Laboratory equipment
- Laboratory excellence
- Quality Control (QC) testing
- Quality Control sampling
- Self awareness
- Technological expertise
Languages :
- Fluent in English and German (spoken and written)
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