Company Description

The job that helps you get ahead in life. Moving mountains together.

 

Welcome to AbbVie! As part of an international company with 50,000 employees worldwide and around 3,000 employees in Germany, you will have the opportunity of addressing some of tomorrows unmet medical needs in close collaboration with your colleagues. Are you passionate about improving global health care? Do you want to contribute to improving patients' quality of life through your expertise? In a challenging work environment that offers opportunities of developing and increasing your own skills? You’ve come to the right place!

In our Pharmaceutical development department within Research and Development at the Ludwigshafen site, you will be working in a team of talented people and experienced experts toward developing tomorrow's products. In cutting-edge laboratories, you will be setting highest standards in the competitive field.

Job Description

Moving mountains together – as Principal Research Scientist II (all genders) - permanent / fulltime)

As a discipline expert and contact, you drive functional performance by designing and implementing studies aimed at new or improved products. You provide technical leadership for a group of scientists and engineers to meet program and department objectives.

 

Your responsibilities:

• Develops and achieves discipline strategy in alignment with functional goals and key scientific objectives.

• Collaborates with experts within function to integrate scientific objectives into activities associated with development of new/improved products or technology.

• Advances scientific expertise within function. Proactively advises and shares knowledge and expert opinions with subordinates, peers, and senior management. Mentors and trains functional colleagues and assesses current and emerging business challenges enabling functional goal achievement.

• Ensures quality and effectiveness of key results of major project plans within function through sound design, early risk assessments, and implementation of fallback strategies.

• Sources and identifies emerging scientific trends from multiple internal and external sources and assess relevance. Integrates trends into functional short-term objectives. Advances technology and direction within area of discipline.

• Applies imagination and innovation by creating, inventing, and implementing new or better approaches, alternatives and breakthrough ideas that are valued by customers within the function.

• Presents scientific concepts and results for functional scientific and non-scientific leaders as well as potential and existing partners. Maximizes impact and value of expertise.

Qualifications

How you can move mountains:

Bachelor's degree in Science with 16 years of related work; Master´s Degree Science or PharmD with 14 years of related work; PhD in Science or related field with 8 years of related work experienceExperience Oral Solid Dosage preferredProven ability to innovate with a history of new or improved product releasesEnglish business fluent and German fluent of strong advantageStrong in interacting and maintaining strong working relationships with internal and external collaborators

 

Here's how we can move mountains together:

with a diverse work environment where you can have a real impactwith an open corporate culturewith an attractive salarywith an intensive onboarding process with a mentor at your sidewith flexible work models for a healthy work-life balancewith a corporate health management that offers comprehensive health and exercise programswith company social benefitswith a wide range of career opportunities in an international organizationwith top-tier, attractive development opportunitieswith a strong international network

 

Multiple times, we have been globally recognized as a "Great Place to Work" and we are proud to provide our employees with the flexibility to maintain a healthy work-life balance. We take our impact on the environment and our communities seriously and therefore focus on giving something back on a regular basis. We are committed to equality, equity, diversity and inclusion (EED&I) – a commitment that is fundamental to us. This includes appreciating different perspectives, creating an inclusive culture and treating all employees with dignity and respect.

At AbbVie, your individual contributions count – help us move mountains together. Be a part of our success, grow with us and accomplish more than you could have imagined. Sounds like the perfect career opportunity for you? We look forward to receiving your application! All you need is a complete CV – we will discuss everything else with you in person.

Any questions? Feel free to email at TalentAcquisition.de@abbvie.com – we look forward to hearing from you!

Additional Information

AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives, serving our community and embracing diversity and inclusion.  It is AbbVie’s policy to employ qualified persons of the greatest ability without discrimination against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy), physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected group status.

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