Senior Scientist, Analytical Chemistry I/II

at  AbbVie

Company Description
AbbVie’s mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people’s lives across several key therapeutic areas – immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care – and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn.
Job Description
Analytical chemist responsible for commercial and pipeline small molecule development within Science and Technology, Pharmaceutical Product Group.

• Lead analytical development, especially in LC-MS, GC-MS and ICP-MS area, to support drug substance and drug product development and manufacturing, including compound structural elucidation, impurity separation, isolation and structural identification, and control strategy development.
• Participate in analytical team activities. Mentor other team members for technical capability development. Provide project proposals and reviews, resource estimation and tracking, and periodical updates to management.
• Independently design experiments, review data and complete results interpretation and reporting. Prepare and review regulatory submission documents.
• Leading the analytical aspects of a project while collaborating with other CMC development functions and other areas in AbbVie to advance drug development.
• Responsible for method development, testing procedures, and implementation of analytical controls to support late-stage analytical development.
• Applying analytical separation and detection modes, such as LC-MS, GC-MS, or ICP-MS for complex impurity identification/quantitation or low level metal quantitation.
• Support commercial manufacturing by participating as an analytical expert in investigations, trouble shoot analytical method issues, and improve method execution.
• Implement a wide range of current analytical techniques to conduct research and development studies related to drug product development.
• Introduce technologies to analytical chemistry labs, such as new separation technology, new techniques in mass spectrometry, data science, and data trending.
• Perform routine and non-routine testing of development, release, and stability samples.
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