MSD Senior Specialist Microbiology 

Ireland 

56420391

Job Description

Your responsibility encompasses ensuring the proper introduction and qualification of microbial methods by Dunboyne QC during the transfer process in accordance with guidelines, as well as overseeing more complex products globally and facilitating the involvement of appropriate Subject Matter Experts at the appropriate time. On an as-needed basis, the Senior Specialist provides practical and scientific support for microbiological and/or virological studies required to support the network. This means that the SME offers both technical and practical expertise during these processes and travels as required. In addition to their responsibilities, the Senior Specialist can also serve as the point of contact for commercial production sites on microbiological methods and will act as a global method or equipment package owner. The Senior Specialist will support the Micro Analytical Sciences (MAS) leads by coaching Specialists and associate specialists in the MAS team and taking up a senior role in the team.

Scientific and Technical leadership

• Technical expertise as a Microbiological SME, with deep scientific understanding of the microbial or virological techniques.
• Responsible for best scientific practices within the lab space and supports from a microbiological perspective, troubleshooting, network and life cycle management activities.
• Supports/leads the implementation of microbiological methods (compendial/alternative microbiological methods) in a harmonized way to secure efficient implementation at the receiving unit (internally and/or externally).
• Provides scientific and practical support to analytical investigation during method suitability and routine use.
• Provides scientific and practical support for microbiological tests on an as-needed basis for the transfer of commercialized products or other microbiological studies.
• Participates as a microbiological SME in the evaluation, method development, method validation of alternative microbiological technology (Rapid Microbiology Methods).
• Responsible for authoring primary and secondary source documents used for regulatory filings.
• Recruitment and supervision of MSc/BSc students

Project Member and/or lead

• Leads the implementation of microbiological methods receiving units (internally and/or externally) and across franchises/modalities.
• Participates as SME or as analytical lead in solving technical problems.
• Root Cause Analysis lead for significant investigations.
• Participates as SME or lead in multidisciplinary teams solving technical problems at global or multisite level.
• Participates in global change control processes as an SME or as change owner.
• Serves as the point of contact for microbiological methods at two or more commercial production sites and can act as a global method or equipment package owner.

Compliance

• Takes GMP requirements into account when setting up experiments and protocols.
• Ensures compliance of protocols and reports.
• Ensures safety at a lab level.
• Contributes to the regulatory (CMC) teams to ensure that the required documentation is in place for product submission (Licensing application) to authorities (e.g. FDA, EMA, China) including response to questions from agency in a timely manner.
• Participates as SME in or leads multidisciplinary teams supporting compliance topics ensuring global policies are in place for the network.

What skills you will need:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree with minimum 5 years of experience (scientific discipline in Microbiology, Virology, biotechnology or equivalent).
• Technical expertise in compendial and non-compendial Microbiological and/or virological methods
• Proven ability to work as part of a team but also on own initiative.
• Deep problem-solving expertise.
• Demonstrated experience of technical leadership.
• Effective communicator and deep technical expertise in Microbiological / virological science.
• Ability to think logically and be proactive under pressure.
• Organisation skills – Ability to manage multiple priorities and know when to escalate issues for resolution.
• Proven project management experience.
• Ability to lead and coach others to solve problems and take new perspectives on existing solutions.

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