Job Description
<b>Job Description Summary</b>As a member of the Technical Development Cell Therapy Process Development group, this individual will support and execute current and future Cell and Gene development projects and contribute to interdisciplinary technical development work in the larger CGT organization. The candidate will act as a subject matter expert for cell therapies projects, execute cell therapy process development studies, interpret and communicate results, evaluate data, draw relevant conclusions and write protocols, reports, and other source documents for regulatory submissions. Contribute to risk analyses and/or peer review and process challenge meetings.<br> <b>Job Description</b><b><span>What you will be doing:</span></b><ul><li><span>Perform experimental design, protocol development and execution, data analysis, technical report writing and presentation.</span></li><li><span>Execution of cell therapy process development studies at large and small scale, including material thawing, cell enrichment, viral transduction, cell culturing and product formulation. </span></li><li><span>Provide scientific/technical leadership for efficient and robust processes for the manufacture and/or analysis of intermediates, drug substances and drug products as per own discipline.</span></li><li><span>Report and present of scientific/technical work at internal/external meetings/conferences and publish in peer reviewed international scientific journals including patents.</span></li><li><span>Assume scientific/technical key function in teams, projects, networks, platforms and/or department activities.</span></li><li><span>Delivery on project milestones, including technical presentations, development reports and other documents relevant to GMP operations.</span></li><li><span>Adherence to Novartis standards, in particular, quality, ethical, health, safety, and environment (HSE), and information security (ISEC) standards.</span></li><li><span>Feedback from other team leaders and advisory boards.</span></li><li><span>Refer to annual individual and team objective setting.</span></li><li><span>Outcome of risk analyses, process challenge meetings, audits and inspections.</span></li><li><span>Measurable contributions to the success, efficiency and productivity of the department and new programs/initiatives started and implemented. </span></li><li><span>Based on project needs support for executing studies outside of standard business hours needed for this role.</span></li></ul><b><span>What you will bring to the role; </span></b><ul><li><span>Bachelor's degree with 3-5 years of industry experience OR Master's degree with 2-3 years of industry experience </span></li><li><span>Degree in Biology, Microbiology, Biomedical Engineering, Biochemical/Chemical Engineering, or Relevant Field </span></li><li><span>Scientific background and understanding of CAR-T manufacturing and development process scale up and scale down</span></li><li><span>Experience with functionally closed systems/ early technological evaluations for large-scale autologous or allogenic CAR-T cell processing is highly desirable.</span></li><li><span>Experience with cell culture processing systems such as Sepax, CliniMACS Prodigy and LOVO</span></li><li><span>Demonstrated record of accomplishment in fostering innovation and creative problem-solving</span></li><li><span>Experience with primary cell isolation and maintenance.</span></li><li><span>Demonstrated history of working on team-oriented projects, managing team members</span></li><li><span>Strong <span>communication/presentation</span> skills and scientific/technical writing skills.</span></li></ul><b>Novartis Compensation and Benefit Summary:</b> The pay range for this position at commencement of employment is expected to be between: $93