COMPLETE Principal Scientist, Global Pathogen Safety - Americas, US-IL, Kankakee, CSL Behring

Are you an experienced biopharmaceutical professional looking for a chance to make a positive impact on human health in a dynamic and growing environment?  If so, CSL is looking for you! 

We are seeking a Principal Scientist to represent the Global Pathogen Safety Support team for our Illinois manufacturing site.

In this role you will work as part of a team responsible for providing pathogen safety support to the North American (NA) CSL Behring manufacturing and development site (Bradley, IL) and providing global support on pathogen safety across the CSL organization.

You will be responsible for becoming familiar and knowledgeable with Pathogen Safety (PS) studies supporting developmental and licensed products manufactured at the CSL Behring Illinois manufacturing site. You will also become familiar with routine PS activities required to support the broader CSL organization including assembling data and supportive documentation, preparing spreadsheets, and analyzing data, conducting scientific literature searches, writing deviation and change risk assessments, and performing facility risk assessments.  

You will work with partners across the CSL Behring organization (with interface functions such as Process Development, MS&T, Quality Assurance, Clinical, Regulatory, Pharmacovigilance, Commercial, Corporate Communications) and will draft risk assessments, position papers, presentations, training materials, talking points, and decision tree matrices in support of the business needs.

 Due to the global aspects of the position, you may periodically be required to participate in global telcon meetings outside of local business hours.

Responsibilities:

• Be an effective contributor to the Global PS Support Team. Actively participate in meetings and seek innovative solutions to provide excellent customer support and create efficiencies across the global PS organization.
• Organize and assemble data, supporting documentation, and conduct scientific literature searches.  Create tables, spreadsheets, decision tree matrices, and analyze data.
• Prepare and update PS documentation and regulatory submission documents for plasma, recombinant, and gene therapy products.  Draft risk assessments (both local and global), position papers, decision tree matrices, presentations, training materials, talking points, data analyses in support of the business needs.
• Actively participate and represent GPS on cross-functional project teams and global project teams. Deliver GPS strategy by creating a respectful and open communication environment. Requires working periodically outside of local business hours.

• Lead local and global Pathogen Safety driven initiatives. Influence peers and leaders to implement state of art pathogen safety strategies across different therapeutic platforms.

Qualifications:

• Minimum of Masters (or BS/equivalent with appropriate experience) in Virology, Biochemistry, Biology, or related field

• Minimum 5 years of experience in biologicals R&D or Quality Management

• Demonstrated ability to work across sites and across international teams is desired.

• Basic knowledge of biochemistry and/or virology:  Strong scientific training and analytic processing skills.

Our Benefits

CSL employees that work at least 30 hours per week are eligible for benefits effective day 1. We are committed to the wellbeing of our employees and their loved ones. CSL offers resources and benefits, from health care to financial protection, so you can focus on doing work that matters. Our benefits are designed to support the needs of our employees at every stage of their life. Whether you are considering starting a family, need help paying for emergency back up care or summer camp, looking for mental health resources, planning for your financial future, or supporting your favorite charity with a matching contribution, CSL has many benefits to help achieve your goals.

Please take the time to review our benefits site to see what’s available to you as a CSL employee.

About CSL Behring

CSL Behring is a global leader in developing and delivering high-quality medicines that treat people with rare and serious diseases. Our treatments offer promise for people in more than 100 countries living with conditions in the immunology, hematology, cardiovascular and metabolic, respiratory, and transplant therapeutic areas. Learn more about CSL Behring.

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