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Job Description

Are you looking for a patient-oriented, innovation-driven company that inspires you and promotes your career? Then take your future in your hands and become part of Takeda as a

Scientist MS&T Drug Product (f/m/d)

Join Takeda’s MS&T Drug Product Lab team a nd contribute to innovative vaccine manufacturing. Drive process development and optimization in formulation, filling, and lyophilization while collaborating with global teams to enhance processes and troubleshoot challenges.

What you will contribute:

• 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 process improvements, troubleshooting, and lifecycle management
• Identify limitations of experiments or issues during experiments, analyze causes, propose solutions and prepare technical reports and summaries
• Use scale-down models and standardized methods for process characterization and optimization
• Maintain accurate documentation and comply with quality standards
• Support 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 experience in vaccines or biologics drug product development, MS&T labs or start-ups, including conceptual design and execution of complex lab experiments
• Strong expertise in formulation, filling, freeze-drying and process optimization
• Hands-on experience in experimental design and troubleshooting
• 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 bioanalytical methods, live-virus vaccines, tech transfer, or cGMP manufacturing is a plus

Locations

Singen, Germany

Worker Type

Employee

Worker Sub-Type

Regular

Time Type

Full time

Takeda is an industry-leading, global pharmaceutical company with an unwavering dedication to putting patients at the center of everything we do. We live our values of Takeda-ism – Integrity, Fairness, Honesty, and Perseverance – and are united by our mission to strive towards Better Health and a Brighter Future for people worldwide through leading innovation in medicine.

Here, everyone matters and you will be a vital contributor to our inspiring, bold mission. At Takeda, you will make an impact on people’s lives – including your own.

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