Director, Large-Scale Cell Therapy Process Development

Scorpion Therapeutics; New Jersey; On-site; USD 195,000 - 218,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) match

PTO 20 days

Job summary

Scorpion Therapeutics is seeking a Director of Large Scale Process Development in Branchburg, NJ, on-site five days a week. You will lead scale-up for cell processes for clinical and commercial manufacturing, providing strategic and technical leadership to a PD/engineering team.

The role requires 10+ years in biopharmaceutical process development, scale-up, tech transfer, and GMP manufacturing, with BS/MS/PhD in a related field.

Qualifications

• Experience in process scale-up (cell therapy) and GMP manufacturing.
• Ability to lead scientific teams and mentor researchers.
• Strong reading/writing of GMP documents (batch records, SOPs, CAPAs).

Responsibilities

• Lead all scale-up efforts for cell processes for clinical and commercial manufacturing.
• Provide strategic and technical leadership to a PD/engineering team.
• Oversee scale-up/scale-down experiments for cell expansion, differentiation, and filling.
• Serve as PD lead in mid-to-late stage programs.
• Build scale-up capabilities with state-of-the-art tech and engineering principles.
• Collaborate with process development, MSAT and Manufacturing for tech transfer.
• Act as SME during GMP manufacturing and side-by-side activities.
• Lead authoring of regulatory submissions and engage with authorities for IND/CTA/IMPD/CTN.
• Communicate findings via presentations, protocols, and reports.
• Manage resources, scheduling, budgeting; mentor team.

Skills

Scale-up experience

Process development

Tech transfer

GMP manufacturing

Leadership

Mentoring

Scientific reasoning

Education

BS/MS/PhD in related field

Job description

Scorpion Therapeutics is seeking a Director of Large Scale Process Development in Branchburg, NJ, on-site five days a week. You will lead scale-up for cell processes for clinical and commercial manufacturing, providing strategic and technical leadership to a PD/engineering team.

The role requires 10+ years in biopharmaceutical process development, scale-up, tech transfer, and GMP manufacturing, with BS/MS/PhD in a related field.