Senior Scientist

3 weeks ago


Collegeville, Pennsylvania, United States GlaxoSmithKline Full time
Site Name: Upper Merion, UK - Hertfordshire - Stevenage, USA - Pennsylvania - Upper Providence
Posted Date: May

Preferred site locations: Upper Merion, Stevenage, or Upper Providence. On-site presence of 2-3 days per week 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 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 a Senior Scientist in Digital Analytical Platforms, you will propose and deliver near term tactical solutions and contribute to long term strategic solutions. You will use quantitative and/or qualitative data and analysis using chromatagraphy instruments and methods, and systems engineering to advance 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:
  • Contribute to the design and independent execution of root cause analysis and experiments based on interpretation of results
  • Maintain a scientifically current to state-of-the-art chromatography systems
  • Provide attention to data quality, integrity and archiving for own work
  • Propose, and with support implement, new research directions and innovative strategies to achieve project, platform, and department goals
  • Perform complex data management and data interpretation tasks/analyses
  • 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
  • Design and interpret complex experiments and data management activities, and make recommendations on how these could be best leveraged
  • Make effective decisions to achieve desired outcomes of project team through technical or scientific interpretation of results
  • Maintain and grow our support network with partner departments
  • Contribute to a collaboration with Agilent to deliver improvements as required
  • Develop networking skills with internal and external stakeholders and experts in specific scientific disciplines
  • 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.
  • Adhere to safety, regulatory and compliance standards within the department
  • Contribute to peer-review of others' work
  • As situationally warranted, contribute as co-author to scientific papers
  • Seek peer challenge and review of scientific ideas and experimental design
  • Prepare detailed oral or written reports of results in the context of strategic fit, feasibility and rationale for projects
  • Present at internal Research and Development forums and external meetings subject to budget availability
  • After doing so jointly with peers, begin to independently prepare 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:

M.S. degree 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
  • Strong communication
  • Learning agility


Preferred Qualifications:

If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:
  • Basic knowledge of regulatory requirements and drug development process
  • Scientific laboratory experience
  • Chromatography experience (HPLC, GC, LC/MS)
  • Data visualization expertise (Spotfire or other)
  • Project matrix-environment experience
  • Ability to influence others
  • Coding (Python, C#, R, VBA or demonstrated learning agility to develop these skills, and/or experience working in GitHub)
  • Non-GMP and or GMP systems
  • Risk assessment and or management


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Why GSK?

Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.

GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose - to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together - so we can positively impact the health of billions of people and deliver stronger, more sustainable shareholder returns - as an organisation where people can thrive. We prevent and treat disease with vaccines, specialty and general medicines. We focus on the science of the immune system and the use of new platform and data technologies, investing in four core therapeutic areas (infectious diseases, HIV, respiratory/ immunology and oncology).

Our success absolutely depends on our people. While getting ahead of disease together is about our ambition for patients and shareholders, it's also about making GSK a place where people can thrive. We want GSK to be a place where people feel inspired, encouraged and challenged to be the best they can be. A place where they can be themselves - feeling welcome, valued, and included. Where they can keep growing and look after their wellbeing. So, if you share our ambition, join us at this exciting moment in our journey to get Ahead Together.

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