Senior Scientist Pharma

Responsibilities

• Acts as a senior technical authority, leading complex scientific workstreams across multiple initiatives with minimal guidance.
• Defines experimental strategy and independently designs, executes, and interprets advanced LCMS studies.
• Ensures scientific rigor, robustness, and reproducibility of data generated across the program.
• Evaluates emerging technologies, new modalities, and regulatory developments to guide workflow innovation and technical direction.
• Identifies scientific gaps and proposes novel methodologies that enable differentiated product and workflow positioning.
• Serves as a key scientific partner to Product Management, R&D, and Marketing in defining pharma-relevant product requirements.
• Represents the scientific perspective in cross-functional planning, ensuring customer workflows are accurately translated into development priorities.
• Helps mentor and coach scientists at earlier career stages, contributing to capability development and scientific standards across the team.
• Builds strong relationships across the organization to enable effective collaboration and program success.
• Authors and leads the development of high-quality scientific content including application notes, workflow documents, white papers, and technical presentations.
• Engages directly with key customers, collaborators, and thought leaders through technical discussions, workshops, and joint evaluations.
• Represents Waters at conferences, webinars, and technical forums, communicating scientific value, innovation, and emerging insights.
• Contributes to Waters’ external scientific reputation through visible, credible technical leadership.
• Manages scientific activities across multiple concurrent projects, balancing priorities and ensuring timely, high-quality delivery.
• Provides data-driven recommendations that influence program strategy, product decisions, and investment priorities.
• Ensures alignment of scientific work with relevant regulatory expectations for pharmaceutical bioanalysis.
• Supports evaluation, verification, and validation of new product features against real-world pharma laboratory requirements.

Qualifications

• PhD in life sciences, chemical sciences, physical sciences, or a related discipline strongly preferred; or BSc or MSc with significant relevant experience considered.
• Experience typically 3+ years of applied LCMS experience in the pharmaceutical industry or a closely related field.
• Demonstrated expertise in both small and large molecule bioanalysis across discovery, development, and/or regulated environments.
• Strong understanding of pharma market drivers, regulatory expectations, and emerging modalities (e.g., Protacs, peptides, oligonucleotides, ADCs).
• Proven track record of scientific authorship, workflow development, and customer-facing technical contributions.
• Experience with complementary bioanalytical techniques (e.g., flow cytometry) is desirable.