Tech Transfer Scientist

Tech Transfer Scientist

Do you want to play a central role in ambitious projects? Are you motivated by cross-organizational tasks? Would you like to join a fast-moving international company with state-of-the-art technologies within vaccine production? Great!

Then you might be our new Tech Transfer Scientist supporting strategic company goals.

Boost our team
You will join the Tech Transfer & Validation Team, currently consisting of 8 scientists. The team is part of our Global Manufacturing Science & Technology (Global MSAT) Department, currently comprising 49 people.

Global MSAT is responsible for standardization and strategic alignment for implementation and life-cycle management of manufacturing processes, products and materials across our internal and external manufacturing facilities, for consistent quality and regulatory compliance of all products.

The responsibilities of the Tech Transfer & Validation Team include:

• Define and drive execution of Tech Transfer and Validation Strategies.
• Prepare CMC source documents for Clinical Trial Materials (CTM) production, TT, and PPQ.
• Implement and qualify new cell lines, and virus seeds.
• Subject Matter Expert (SME) support to Implementation projects.
• CTM/TT project coordination.

In scope of the team are transfers of manufacturing processes from one site to another (or from one company to another) at all life-cycle stages, including transfer from development to commercialization and full commercial scale transfers. Scope of projects can be both insourcing, outsourcing and site-to-site internal transfers. We cover manufacturing processes for both Cell Banks, Virus Seeds, Drug Substances and Drug Products.

As a scientist you will work closely together with your colleagues within the Global MSAT department as well as colleagues across the organization, like Regulatory Affairs, Quality Control (QC) laboratories, Quality Assurance (QA), Production Development, and Commercial Production Sites including External Manufacturing sites.

You will report to the Manager of the Tech Transfer Team in the Global MSAT department.

This is how you impact the people we are here to serve
In this position you will be responsible for the transfer of downstream manufacturing processes, like e.g. Chromatography, TFF, Enzymatic Processing and Homogenization.

Your tasks include:

• Develop and execute Tech Transfer & Validation Strategies.
• Perform product and process assessments, like criticality and comparability assessments.
• Author study protocols and reports, compiling and evaluating manufacturing and product data.
• Author and manage change requests for tech transfer activities.
• Ensure scientific rationales and CMC source documents for regulatory purposes.
• Ensure both alignment within the department, and cross-department collaboration.

Are you our next pioneer?
Our people and our ability to work as a team, are essential to delivering continuous high performance and to achieving our growth ambitions. Bavarian Nordic offers significant growth opportunities in an environment with exciting job and learning opportunities to talents who are attracted to working with vaccine production.

Succeeding with our vision of becoming one of the largest pure play vaccine companies in the world is no walk in the park, and that is why we need people who are determined to make it happen and have the following qualifications:

• Minimum 5 years of experience in downstream processing.
• Tech Transfer experience is a benefit.
• Relevant scientific background, e.g. Master in Biochemistry, Biology, Chemical Eng., Pharmacy or similar.
• Fluency in spoken and written English.
• Great stakeholder management and communication skills.

As a person you take responsibility, you are organized and can work both independently and collaboratively as a team player. You adapt quickly to changes with a positive, solution-oriented, curious, and can-do attitude.

Apply by clicking the ‘APPLY’ button. We are interviewing on an ongoing basis and look forward to receiving your motivated resume and CV.

For additional information on the position, please contact:

Senior Manager for the Tech Transfer & Validation Team Linda Skou Olsson on + 45 6131 8005.

Join us and become part of a diverse team dedicated to making a difference together.

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Founded in 1994, we have +30 years of experience developing life-saving vaccines. We are a global leader in smallpox and mpox vaccines. Our commercial product portfolio contains market-leading vaccines against rabies, tick-borne encephalitis, cholera, typhoid, and Ebola. We are headquartered in Denmark and have manufacturing, research, and sales offices across Europe and North America. Our values – our Bavarian Nordic DNA, as we like to call it – are what guide our actions every day. We act as persistent pioneers, embrace change, value being boosted by the team, and believe in protecting lives every day. If that is also a part of your DNA, we invite you to join us in Bavarian Nordic! Bavarian Nordic is an Equal Opportunity Employer. www.bavarian-nordic.com

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