• Job Description

  Req#: 372871

  We are seeking a Senior Scientist to join our team that actively drives how automation is applied to accelerate the medicine pipeline, ultimately delivering quality, life-saving medicine to patients, faster. As such, the purpose of the role is to successfully utilize the automation assets for rapid screening and/or development to reduce design selection risks and enhance product design across all phases of development.

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

  • Working in a matrix team, develop appropriate automation protocols to meet the needs of the scientists, analysts, chemists, engineers and formulators across the R&D organization.
  • Optimize workflow design by successfully utilizing a range of specialized robots to run key pharmaceutical screening such as drug solubility, stability and crystallization; enhancing drug product design across all phases of development.
  • Gain a deep understanding of early pharmaceutical testing and applying automation to accelerate drug candidates from discovery to clinical trials.
  • Explore a wide range of experimental procedures and projects by working on new pharmaceutical assets on a weekly basis.
  • Apply appropriate analytical techniques such as Liquid Chromatography, Gas Chromatography, FT-Raman, Microscopy and X-Ray Powder Diffraction to explore the physical properties of materials, excipients of pharmaceutical relevance, and chemical reactions of synthetic intermediates.
  • Participate on multidisciplinary project teams, and collaborate with colleagues to define and implement development strategies according to project timelines.
  • Organize, evaluate, and present data in an effective and scientific manner using advanced software visualization tools.
  • Contribute to the development of new automation approaches and knowledge within the global automation organization.

  Why you?

  Basic Qualifications:

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

  • Bachelors degree in chemistry, engineering, or life sciences degree
  • 2+ years Chromatography experience and tools (i.e. HPLC)

  Preferred Qualifications:

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

  • Masters degree in chemistry, engineering, or life sciences applications
  • Ability to interface with multiple internal and external groups to successfully deliver projects.
  • High learning agility with the ability and willingness to deal effectively with first-time situations or changing conditions.
  • Knowledge and experience with statistical design of experiments and analysis of results.
  • Knowledge of solid-state analytical methods such as microscopy, FT-Raman, and XRPD.
  • Ability to integrate, test, and troubleshoot analytical instrumentation such as HPLC & UPLC.
  • Ability to translate scientific processes to new platforms and to identify new application areas.

  Why GSK?

  We’re combining the power of genetic and genomic insights into what causes disease, with the speed and scale of artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) to make better predictions about who a treatment might work for, and why. We believe this powerful combination of data and technology holds the key to fundamentally transforming medical discovery for the better, improving R&D success rates and shaping how even the most challenging diseases, like neurological conditions and cancer, can be both prevented and treated.

  In 2021 we delivered four major product approvals: Cabenuva for HIV, Jemperli for endometrial cancer, Xevudy for COVID-19 and Apretude, our new long-acting medicine for HIV prevention.

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