Senior Scientist Ms&t Drug Product

**What you will contribute**:

- Conceptually design, execute, and evaluate experiments in the Drug Product Lab, focusing on formulation, filling, lyophilization, and capping in both small-scale and pilot-scale automated setups
- Collaborate with teams across MS&T, CMC, QA, QC, and manufacturing to support and coordinate process improvements, troubleshooting, and lifecycle management
- Identify limitations of experiments or issues during experiments, analyze causes, propose solutions and prepare technical reports and summaries and present to stakeholders
- Use scale-down models and standardized methods for process characterization and optimization
- Maintain accurate documentation and comply with quality standards
- Support and proactively coordinate 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 DP.

**What you bring to Takeda**:

- MSc in a scientific discipline with at least 6 years of experience in vaccines or biologics drug product development, MS&T labs or start-ups, including conceptual design and execution of complex lab experiments
- In-depth, multi-year expertise in formulation, filling, freeze-drying, automated filling lines and process optimization
- Hands-on experience in experimental design and troubleshooting and creating position papers based on studies and bibliography
- Excellent communication skills in German and English
- Highly organized, detail-oriented, hands-on, with the ability to prioritize tasks, supportive and result oriented
- Hands-on mentality with lab activities to run experiments and support colleagues in execution of complex experiments.
- Experience in live-virus vaccines, tech transfer, cGMP manufacturing, or bioanalytical methods is a plus

**What we offer you**:

- Attractive and competitive salary
- 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
- 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**:
**Locations**: Singen, Germany

**Worker Type**: Employee

**Worker Sub-Type**: Regular

**Time Type**: Full time