Scientist MS&T Drug Substance (f/m/d)

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Job Description:

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Scientist MS&T Drug Substance (f/m/d):

Join Takeda’s MS&T Drug Substance Lab team and contribute to innovative vaccine manufacturing. Drive process development and optimization through experimental studies while collaborating with global teams to enhance processes and troubleshoot challenges.

What you will contribute:

• Design, plan, execute, and evaluate experiments in the Drug Substance Lab, including cell culture, viral infection, and downstream processing up to manufacturing scale.
• Collaborate with teams across MS&T DS/DP, CMC, QA, QC, regulatory and manufacturing to drive process improvements, troubleshooting, process life cycle management, and technology transfer activities within Takeda’s global Vaccine Drug Substance manufacturing network.
• Identify experimental limitations and deviations, analyze root causes, propose solutions, and document findings in protocols, reports, and summaries.
• Develop methods to improve and standardize existing techniques, sourced from scientific publications, network know-how and in alignment with status quo and the demands from manufacturing colleagues.
• Analyze data from studies and tech transfer activities, contributing to regulatory submissions and internal reports.
• Support lab operations via common lab tasks such as procurement, inventory management and introducing new technologies.
• Assist in deviation investigations and continuous improvement projects.

In this position, you will report to the Manager MS&T Lab DS.

What you bring to Takeda:

• MSc in a scientific discipline with at least 4 years of relevant experience in vaccine or biologics Drug Substance process development, MS&T labs or start-ups.
• Theoretical and practical expertise in mammalian cell culture, live-virus handling, and downstream processing techniques such as purification and tangential flow filtration.
• Hands-on experience in conceptual experimental design, troubleshooting, and process optimization.
• Strong organizational and communication skills in German and English.
• Ability to assess risks, identify issues, and implement solutions in process development studies.
• Capability to create position papers based on experiments and bibliography to reinforce the knowledge sharing and improvement of competencies.
• Hands-on mentality with lab activities and in support of colleagues, to ensure successful execution of complex experiments.
• Experience in bioanalytical methods and/or sustaining cGMP for drug substance processes in manufacturing of biopharmaceuticals is a plus.

What we offer you:

• Attractive and competitive salary according to collective bargaining agreement.
• Open-minded and modern working environment.
• Hybrid working model.
• 30 vacation days.
• Company pension plan.
• Further education and training.
• Commuting allowance.
• Attractive Relocation Package including brokerage fees.
• Subsidized canteen.
• Subsidized sports programs.
• Disability insurance.
• Supplementary nursing care insurance.
• Long-term account with various possible uses.
• Employee discounts.
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
• Group accident insurance.
• Employee Referral Program.
• Deferred compensation as desired.
• Future amount.
• Global Wellbeing Program.
• Interactive online courses for employees' children.
• Employee Recognition Program.

About Us:

Takeda is focused on creating better health for people and a brighter future for the world. We aim to discover and deliver life-transforming treatments in our core therapeutic and business areas, including gastrointestinal and inflammation, rare diseases, plasma-derived therapies, oncology, neuroscience and vaccines.

In Singen, around 1,200 employees specialize in the production of liquid, semi-solid and freeze-dried medicines. Singen is the only production site in the global Takeda network for the manufacture of our new vaccine. Takeda Singen is a regionally significant employer and has been awarded the independent Top Employer certificate several years in a row. The site is characterized by its high level of diversity (e.g., more than 55 nationalities and over 40% of leaders are women), its long company history and its excellent development opportunities. The town of Singen (Hohentwiel) is located on the beautiful Lake Constance in Baden-Württemberg with a view of the Alps and close proximity to France, Liechtenstein, Austria, and Switzerland.

How we will support you:

Takeda is proud of its commitment to create a diverse workforce and to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, parental status, national origin, age, disability, citizenship status, genetic information or characteristics, marital status, or any other characteristic protected by law. If you are living with disabilities, chronic illness, or neurodiversity, please feel free to let us know so that we can provide you with appropriate support during the application process.

Locations:

Singen, Germany

Worker Type:

Employee

Worker Sub-Type:

Regular

Time Type:

Full time