Principal Scientist, Sterile Drug Product Commercialization

Job Description

As part of our Company’s Manufacturing Division, the Sterile Drug Product Commercialization (SDPC) group provides the technical process leadership and laboratory capabilities for late stage and commercial drug product processes for vaccines, biologics, and sterile pharmaceutical products. The SDPC team is based out of West Point PA, USA with a presence in Carlow, Ireland supporting Irish and European Sterile Drug Product manufacturing sites.

The SDPC group is the division’s leader in sterile product and process development, responsible for commercialization activities including process scale up, technology transfer to internal and external sites, process validation, authoring of regulatory submissions and support of significant manufacturing investigations. The group is responsible for establishing the science, engineering and knowledge required for today’s innovative and accelerated commercialization of novel vaccines, biologics, pharmaceutical products and combination products. The SDPC group supports the growing pipeline of diverse products and evolving technologies.

We are seeking an experienced Principal Scientist to advance and commercialize our pipeline products. As a member of the drug product team, the Principal Scientist will have a key focus on driving excellence in process scale up, transfer and process validation activities at a start-up manufacturing site.

What you will do:

• Execute and provides oversight to process design, development, characterization, technology transfer, and robust commercial validation.

• Serve on cross functional drug product (DP) working group and supports DP activities through filing and Process Performance Qualification (PPQ), site characterization plan and execution, tech transfer control strategy, process development, PPQ readiness, PAI (Pre‐Approval Inspection) readiness, approval, launch and post‐launch support.

• Ensure commercialization program meet requirements related to science, quality, reliability, schedule, and cost.

• Provide mentorship, technical oversight, and strategic guidance with respect to intravitreal process optimization. Uses advanced experience gained on scientific/technical issues to guide others to address complex technical challenges. 

• Develop a process and product development plan. Influences decisions related to primary packaging.

• Innovate and drive best practices for commercial site tech transfer, facility fit and development of the DP control strategy.

• Define the classification of process parameters, performance parameters, operating ranges, in-process controls. Drive and influence process demonstration and qualification (PPQ) and shelf-life strategies.

• Influence CMC regulatory strategy and author DP CMC sections of filing. Review regulatory strategy and filing readiness and support preparation for agency meetings. Author and review regulatory submissions.

• Create the best and next practices in-process scale down, parameter finding, site characterization and transfer.

• Establish and foster a culture of high performance, …