Global Senior Scientist, Plasmids (SME)

Company: Thermo Fisher Scientific
Location: Los Angeles
Posted on: September 17, 2020

Job Description:

When you’re part of the team at Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll do important work, and you’ll be valued and recognized for your performance. With talented managers and inspiring coworkers to support you, you’ll find the resources and opportunities to make significant contributions to the world.

Location/Division Specific Information

Remote – North America

How will you make an impact?

Acts as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) within the Pharma Services Organization supporting both the technical operations of the business and Sales and Business Development Executives (BDE) with technical expertise for clinical and commercial plasmid production.

What will you do?

Provides technical expertise and direction on plasmid business and technical strategy.

Provides Subject Matter Expertise for Sales and Business Development Executives (BDE) for clinical and plasmid production.

Bullets on technical expertise for business?

Assesses customer needs, proposes scientifically sound development pathways, seeks collaborative solutions, and translates requirements to quotations group.

Ensures proposed solutions are scientifically viable and meet the business needs of both customer and Thermo Fisher Scientific.

Reviews final proposals to ensure consistency with customer requirement in Request for Proposals (RFPs).

Ensures site presentation is consistent with corporate marketing standards, updates frequently with current technical capabilities.

Leads customer site visits as required along with site SME’s.

Identifies strategic opportunities with relevance to plasmid capability enhancement to gain more proposal acceptance and business growth based on market and customer requests.

Supports BDEs as SME at customer site visits representing the capability of the sites and network.

Trains current senior staff on site presentation.

Develops and presents to external groups include trade associations and scientific organizations.

Engages customers and operations staff for problem-solving.

Collaborates with Marketing and supports publication of scientific articles, white papers and thought leadership articles to raise the visibility of Thermo Fisher’s expertise and services

How will you get here?

Masters / Ph.D.in microbiology/chemical engineering related to microbial bioproduction or a B.S. in microbiology or chemical engineering with significant experience in pharmaceutical plasmid manufacturing.

Minimum 10 years of experience in plasmid process development and GMP manufacturing or similar.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

Subject Matter Expert in process development, GMP plasmid production

Understands cost drivers for product development and manufacturing.

Knowledgeable of emerging trends in cell and gene therapy and plasmid production.

Strong interpersonal skills with ability to influence in a matrixed environment

Superlative oral and written communication skills.

Excellent presentation skills.

Able to work on multiple projects simultaneously.

Effectively translates customer requirements to quotations group and project management at project kick off.

Ability to travel monthly between 50-70% domestically and internationally.

At Thermo Fisher Scientific, each one of our 70,000 extraordinary minds has a unique story to tell. Join us and contribute to our singular mission—enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer.

Thermo Fisher Scientific is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.

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Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. is the world leader in serving science, with annual revenue exceeding $25 billion. Our Mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. Whether our customers are accelerating life sciences research, solving complex analytical challenges, improving patient diagnostics and therapies or increasing productivity in their laboratories, we are here to support them. Our global team of more than 75,000 colleagues delivers an unrivaled combination of innovative technologies, purchasing convenience and pharmaceutical services through our industry-leading brands, including Thermo Scientific, Applied Biosystems, Invitrogen, Fisher Scientific, Unity Lab Services and Patheon. For more information, please visit www.thermofisher.com .

Thermo Fisher Scientific is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, creed, religion, color, national or ethnic origin, citizenship, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, genetic information, veteran status, age or disability status.

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