Are you ready to lead analytical science that safeguards product quality and accelerates life-changing medicines to patients? Step into a senior role at the heart of our Analytical Sciences & Technology laboratories, where your methods, decisions, and leadership directly influence product robustness, regulatory success, and manufacturing reliability.
You will partner closely with colleagues across Manufacturing, Development, Quality, Regulatory, Supply and Commercial to shape analytical strategy and deliver results that matter. This is an opportunity to set the standard for scientific rigor and data integrity while enabling technology transfers, de-risking processes, and advancing a growing pipeline. How will you apply your analytical expertise to elevate method performance and solve complex, cross-functional challenges?
Accountabilities:
Analytical Method Development and Optimization: Design, refine, and stress-test methods to improve robustness, sensitivity, and throughput, ensuring fitness-for-purpose across product lifecycle stages.
Qualification, Validation and Transfer: Author and execute protocols, analyze results, and lead method transfers to internal and external labs to ensure seamless adoption and compliance with cGMP/GLP and regulatory expectations.
Study Design and Execution: Plan and run studies end-to-end, from protocol creation to data analysis and reporting, delivering clear, defensible conclusions that inform technical and regulatory decisions.
Data Trending and Capability Analysis: Perform method capability and trending to establish control strategies, identify risks early, and drive continuous improvement.
Investigations and Troubleshooting: Lead or support analytical investigations and problem-solving to unblock manufacturing issues, reduce deviations, and improve right-first-time performance; discuss outputs with peers and stakeholders.
Technical Documentation and Regulatory Support: Author analytical content for technical reports and regulatory submissions, translating complex data into concise, compliant narratives.
Technical Leadership and Training: Provide hands-on guidance to laboratory scientists, train new personnel in analytical methods, and role-model scientific rigor, safety, and accountability.
Compliance and Safety: Maintain a safe, compliant lab environment; uphold site EHS policy and cGMP; participate in risk assessments, audits, and incident investigations.
Operational Flexibility: Support critical lab studies outside standard hours when needed, ensuring continuity for time-sensitive programs.
Essential Skills/Experience:
Minimum Bachelor’s Degree in biochemistry, chemistry, microbiology or a relevant scientific discipline.
Demonstrated (5+ years) experience in an analytical role in a bio-pharmaceutical manufacturing or development area.
Previous experience with analytical method development and optimisation
Proven knowledge of cGMP/GLP requirements and implementation of standard methodologies to ensure technical excellence.
This is an on-site role, the duties of which are generally conducted in a lab environment. As is typical of a lab-based role, employees must capable with or without an accommodation to: lift/carry items in accordance with manual handling principles; work comfortably in a controlled environment with and around biological, infectious, and hazardous materials; gown/degown PPE; use a computer; engage in communications via phone, video, and electronic messaging; engage in problem solving and non-linear thought, analysis, and dialogue; collaborate with others; maintain general availability during standard business hours
Desirable Skills/Experience :
Masters / advanced analytical degree preferred
Experience in authoring content for regulatory submissions.
Digital and AI savvy
Why AstraZeneca :
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