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HOW MIGHT YOU DEFY IMAGINATION?

You’ve worked hard to become the professional you are today and are now ready to take the next step in your career. How will you put your skills, experience and passion to work toward your goals? At Amgen, our shared mission—to serve patients—drives all that we do. It is key to our becoming one of the world’s leading biotechnology companies, reaching over 10 million patients worldwide. Come do your best work alongside other innovative, driven professionals in this meaningful role.

Process Development Senior Scientist

Live

What you will do

Let’s do this! Let’s change the world! In this vital role you will be responsible for development, characterization, scale-up and support of drug substance processes to enable commercial advancement of programs from Ph II/III clinical trials to marketing application.

• Apply established platform approaches and problem-solving skills to rapidly tackle drug substance challenges and build robust processes with efficient experimentation
• Drive innovation and utilize out-of-the-box thinking to contribute to technology development
• Expand and develop skills in cell culture and purification, thereby further contributing to the integrated group
• Participate in drug substance teams and collaborate cross functionally with analytical and drug product representatives to deliver drug substance manufacturing processes in a phase appropriate manner.
• Deliver process amenable to cGMP operation and carry out results of drug substance in a cGMP manufacturing environment
• Author, or provide direction for the authorship of, technical report or CMC regulatory submissions which may require minimal additional editing

Win

What we expect of you

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The dynamic professional we seek is a Scientist with these qualifications.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree and 5 years of life sciences experience OR
• Master’s degree and 3 years of life sciences experience OR
• Doctorate degree PhD OR PharmD OR MD

Preferred Qualifications:

• Doctorate in Chemical Engineering, Biochemical Engineering, or other relevant sciences
• Consistent track record of decision-making and trouble-shooting protein drug substance purification processes, preferably in a process development environment
• Strong understanding and extensive hands-on experience in protein chromatography, including affinity, ion exchange, and hydrophobic interaction chromatography
• Experience in filtration operations, including ultrafiltration/diafiltration
• Understanding of protein characteristics and critical attributes to direct product/process control strategies
• Proven ability to independently identify, develop and implement scientific solutions to practical problems.
• Motivated self-starter with excellent interpersonal and organizational skills
• Leadership experience of progressively increased scope and ability to encourage and lead a group of scientists
• community through a sustained record of peer reviewed publications
• Demonstrated success working with diverse team members in a dynamic, cross-functional environment
• Familiarity with design of experiments and statistical analysis of data
• Knowledge of license applications and the drug development process
• Exposure to cGMP manufacturing and CMC components of regulatory submissions

Thrive

What you can expect of us

As we work to develop treatments that take care of others, we also work to care for our teammates’ professional and personal growth and well-being.

Amgen offers a Total Rewards Plan comprising health and welfare plans for staff and eligible dependents, financial plans with opportunities to save towards retirement or other goals, work/life balance, and career development opportunities including:

• Comprehensive employee benefits package, including a Retirement and Savings Plan with generous company contributions, group medical, dental and vision coverage, life and disability insurance, and flexible spending accounts.
• A discretionary annual bonus program, or for field sales representatives, a sales-based incentive plan
• Stock-based long-term incentives
• Award-winning time-off plans and bi-annual company-wide shutdowns
• Flexible work models, including remote work arrangements, where possible

Apply now for a career that defies imagination

Objects in your future are closer than they appear. Join us.

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Amgen is an Equal Opportunity employer and will consider you without regard to your race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

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