Investigator

Site Name: Upper Merion, UK - Hertfordshire

• Stevenage, USA - Pennsylvania

• Upper Providence

Posted Date: May 16 2024

Preferred Site Locations: Upper Merion, Stevenage, Upper Providence. 2-3 days on-site per week is required.

Are you energized by a highly collaborative scientific role in analytical chemistry platforms that allows you to accelerate scientific and R&D delivery? If so, this role could be an ideal opportunity to explore.

The Digital Analytical Platforms team within Analytical Development is responsible for innovations to assess and when warranted implement platforms that enhance analytical chemistry through digitization and efficiency gains. The primary purpose of this collaborative role is to supervise, improve, and leverage the fleet of open-access non-GMP chromatography platforms to accelerate discovery and development across a diverse and global user group. These open-access instruments are integral to our license to operate, and support most of our potential medicines.

As an Investigator in Digital Analytical Platforms, you will design and deliver near term tactical solutions and long term strategic solutions. You will use quantitative and/or qualitative data and analysis using chromatography instruments and methods, and systems engineering to develop platform technologies. In addition, you will enable a high standard of data integrity and technical efficiency applied towards scientific methodology.

This role will provide YOU the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR career. These responsibilities include some of the following:

• Independently select the design and execution of root cause analysis and experiments based on interpretation of results

• Implement and maintain a scientifically current to state-of-the-art chromatography systems

• Provide attention to data quality, integrity and archiving for own work and of others

• Initiate new research directions and innovative strategies to achieve project, platform, and department goals

• Perform complex data management and data interpretation tasks/analyses

• Identify new scientific and or engineering opportunities, which may include analytical data pipeline and visualization projects that support the discovery and development of candidate medicines.

• Identify bottlenecks, and systematically evaluate and assess root causes of errors in the laboratory, differentiating with rigor between inefficiencies arising from human, software, hardware, firmware, and/or chemical sources.

• Deliver automated and/or digital solutions to reduce or eliminate common failure modes

• Seek peer challenge and review of scientific ideas and experimental design

• Influence project and team's direction by interpreting results outside area of expertise

• Maintain and grow our support network with partner departments

• Sustain a collaboration with Agilent to deliver improvements as required

• Develop networking skills with external key opinion leaders and experts in specific scientific disciplines

• Ensure that design and interpretation of complex experiments and data management activities impact Research and Development decision making

• Make effective decisions to achieve desired outcomes of project team through technical or scientific interpretation of results

• Take a leadership role for safety, regulatory and compliance within the department

• Cooperate as a technical resource by acting as mentor and training new users

• Peer-review of others' work

• Prepare detailed oral or written reports of results in the context of strategic fit, feasibility and rationale for projects

• Author, review, and approve key documentation to support deployment and maintenance of the chromatography operating software

• As situationally warranted, independently author scientific papers

• Present at internal Research and Development forums and external meetings subject to budget availability

• Independently prepares and communicate conclusions and recommendations for next steps

• Demonstrate networking skills through interactions across departments and divisions

• Lead small projects/project sub teams to achieve technical or business outcomes

• Active and influential scientific participant in at least one project/program

• Update supervisor and matrix leaders to inform progress and activities

• Anticipate problems and proactively seek input from other teams/divisions within Research and Development

• Use scientific and or engineering technical expertise to solve project related problems of colleagues and of other projects

Why you?

Basic Qualifications:

We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:

Ph.D. or comparable industrial experience in one or more of the following areas:

Preferred: chemistry (analytical, organic, biochemistry), engineering (chemistry, systems, data, computer, software, industrial, materials), data science or engineering, computer science

Considered: chemistry (inorganic, forensic, physical, environmental), engineering (mechanical, biomedical, environmental)

• Proven track record of solving complex problems

• Experience analyzing data

• Clear concise communication

• Learning agility

• Non-GMP systems

Preferred Qualifications:

If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:

• Knowledge of regulatory requirements and drug development process

• Scientific expertise

• Chromatography expertise (HPLC, GC, LC/MS)

• Data visualization expertise (Spotfire or other)

• Project management and matrix leadership experience

• Ability to influence others

• Coding (Python, C#, R, VBA or demonstrated learning agility to develop these skills, and/or experience working in GitHub)

• GMP systems

• Software development and testing, and familiarity with Kanban and Agile frameworks

• Risk assessment and or management

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