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Role Summary:
The Fast Trak position differentiates itself for being in a global group that oversees the global biopharma industry and provides application support in the form of process development, consulting and/or training to the industry and academia. The position is in a highly dynamic group and provides many opportunities for individual career development.
Essential Responsibilities:
Duties include (but are not limited to) :
- Developing expertise for upstream and downstream process development, operation of large scale bioprocess equipment and FDA regulations, understand marketing trends to support sales department and customers with expert advice
- Working with customers in a strong collaboration environment which may involve occasional travelling to customer locations
- Adding value to GE’s customers by identifying continuous improvement opportunities in their bio-manufacturing processes and designing and implementing innovative process enhancement
- Leadership in area of expertise to move projects forward
- Designing, developing and delivering training courses, theoretical as well as practical, in the field of biomanufacturing
- To host/train Customers (internal/external)
- To maintain accurate and complete records of all work, and report to customer and management in oral and written manner
- Conducting independent scientific application work on key projects (Monoclonal Antibodies (MAb’s), vaccines, recombinant proteins, plasma fractionation)
- Developing and maintaining relationships with the regional commercial and marketing teams, as well as the global Fast Trak and R&D organizations
Quality Specific Goals:
1. Aware of and comply with the GEHC Quality Manual, Quality Management System, Quality Management Policy, Quality Goals, and applicable laws and regulations as they apply to this job type/position
2. Complete all planned Quality & Compliance training within the defined deadlines
3. Identify and report any quality or compliance concerns and take immediate corrective action as required
4. Ensure compliance/closure of Regulatory and Quality requirements before approving Design Outputs/Program Deliverables
5. Lead continuous improvement activities by driving the implementation of process and product quality improvement initiatives
Qualifications/Requirements:
- Degree in Life Sciences or related fields
- 2-5 years experience in handling label free analysis, assay development, biocomparability and other applications, HPLC, Electrophoresis, Blotting techniques, upstream or downstream bioprocess development, scale-up, tech transfer, cell culture techniques.
Desired Characteristics:
- Master’s degree with 4-6 years’ experience/fresh PhD Degree/PhD degree with 1-2 yrs.’ experience in Life Sciences related fields
- Experience with Process analytical/characterization techniques including label free analysis
- Understanding of upstream and downstream process
- Understanding for regulatory guidelines
- Prior teaching and/or presenting scientific material experience would be highly desirable
- Demonstrated ability to work in a collaborative, matrixed, and customer focused environment
- Demonstrated ability to establish and maintain relationship with co-workers
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Able to operate in a high pace environment with frequent changes
Locations: India; Bangalore
