The Company 
This organization focuses on the discovery, development, manufacture and marketing of vaccines to protect people worldwide from infectious diseases.

Role Description 
As a USP Principal Scientist you will be responsible  for early- as well as late-stage development of scalable, pharmaceutical-grade production processes for viral vaccines using mammalian cell lines as a production platform.

Responsibilities 
-Leads teams of motivated process developers
-Develops and executes USP early- and late-stage development and tech transfer strategies
-Creates and manages research plans with greater complexity in the delivery of business results
-Represents USP in multidisciplinary project team(s)
-Acts as senior author in the preparation of presentations, technical reports, documents for regulatory filing and patents

Requirements 
-Ph. D. or Post-doctorate degree biopharmaceutical sciences, biotechnology, engineering or related fields
-5+ years of late-stage biopharmaceutical experience 
-Technical knowledge on bioreactor process technology; ideally for R&D and/or commercial (GMP) purposes
-Experience with two or more of the following: life cycle process validation; regulatory submission writing; process improvements; technology transfer; manufacturing support; people management.

Other Information 
For more information please contact Ece Karakurt at e.karakurt@sire-search.com or +31 (0) 20 658 98 01.