Principal Research Scientist I Eng

About the Company

AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas including immunology, oncology and neuroscience — and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio.

About the Role

This role will provide technical oversight for external manufacturing partners, encompassing drug substance and intermediate manufacturing. The individual will handle direct research and/or project activities and professional development of a group of scientists within their area of expertise by effectively mentoring, guiding, and/or supervising scientific personnel.

Responsibilities

• Function as a principal investigator, generating original technical ideas and research or development strategies.
• Demonstrate creative 'out of the box' thinking to solve difficult problems and champion new technologies to achieve project goals.
• Independently responsible for project science within their area of expertise on one or more project teams.
• Make significant contributions to project teams through lab-based or other work environments.
• Generate new scientific proposals and lead those efforts.
• Anticipate and critically evaluate scientific or regulatory advances or competitive threats and respond with appropriate new strategies.
• Serve as a recognized expert in their discipline within the company and possibly externally.
• Primary author of publications, presentations, regulatory documents, and/or primary inventor of patents.
• Present at leading scientific conferences.
• Mentor and supervise a team of one or more, evaluating their performance; accountable for the effective performance of the team.
• Independently conceive, execute, and communicate novel multi-disciplinary research or development strategies that achieve project and area goals.
• Serve as a lead scientist on their own project and contribute scientific insights into multiple other projects.

Qualifications

• BS or equivalent education and extensive, typically 14+ years of experience; MS or equivalent education with typically 12+ years of experience; PhD with typically 6+ years of experience in area or scientific discipline.
• Demonstrated ability to function as a principal investigator, generating original technical ideas and research or development strategies.
• Proven creative 'out of the box' thinking to solve difficult technical problems and champion new technologies to achieve project goals.
• Recognized and sought out as an expert in their discipline within the company and possibly externally.
• Experienced and demonstrated success as primary author of publications, presentations, regulatory documents, and/or primary inventor of patents.
• Demonstrated scientific communication and presentation skills by presenting at leading scientific conferences.

Benefits

• Comprehensive package including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick).
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• 401(k) retirement plan for eligible employees.
• Eligibility to participate in long-term incentive programs.

Pay

The compensation range described is the range of possible base pay that AbbVie believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of posting, based on the job grade. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors, including geographic location, and may vary. This range may be modified in the future.