Job Description

Our company, is a global health care leader with a diversified portfolio of prescription medicines, vaccines and animal health products. The difference between potential and achievement lies in the spark that fuels innovation and inventiveness; this is the space where our company has codified its legacy for over a century. Our company's success is backed by ethical integrity, forward momentum, and an inspiring mission to achieve new milestones in global healthcare. Our Manufacturing Division, is a team of dedicated, energetic individuals who are committed to being the most trusted supplier of biologics, vaccines, pharmaceuticals and health products worldwide. Our facilities, along with our external contractors, suppliers, and partners, comprise an interdependent global manufacturing network that’s committed to delivering a compliant, reliable supply to customers and patients on time, every time, across the globe.

The Global Vaccines and Biologics Commercialization (GVBC) team within our company Manufacturing Division focuses on late stage process development, technology transfer, and in-line support of large molecules including vaccine and biologic therapeutic products (live-attenuated vaccines, inactivated vaccines, subunit, recombinant proteins, polysaccharide, and conjugate vaccines). Our mission is to enable current and future compliant supply of our finest inventions to patients at a competitive cost through technical excellence. We serve manufacturing sites through the commercialization of our pipeline as well as by providing technical support to enable make, test, and release of our products. We partner across areas of the Manufacturing Division and cross-divisionally with our company Research Labs with the ultimate goal of delivering innovative products to patients.

We seek a motivated, detail-oriented scientist with strong scientific and technical skills to perform biochemical/immunological/cell-based assays in the Cell and Virus Potency Process Attribute Sciences team, supporting multiple large molecule programs in late-stage development. In this role, the incumbent will partner seamlessly with GVBC Drug Substance (DS) and Drug Product (DP) colleagues to provide robust, reliable, and timely in-process analytics support to enable process development and commercialization spanning the biologics and vaccines pipeline.

Job role expectations:

• Participate in day-to-day analytical lab activities to support vaccines and biologics process development and process characterization.

• Perform, optimize, and qualify biochemical/immunological/cell-based assays (including flow cytometry, high content imaging, ELISA-based assays, etc.) and provide routine analytical testing support to enable process understanding.

• Be able to solve analytical problems, independently troubleshoot technical issues, and maintain excellent written documentation (e.g. lab notebook).

• Provide data analysis/summaries, written reports, and oral presentations to internal and external teams.

• Author and/or review technical documents including development reports, analytical test protocols, laboratory procedures, method qualification reports, etc.

• Collaborate and partner across disciplines and project teams

• Demonstrate a growth mindset and culture of safety & compliance

​Education Guideline:

• M.S. Biological Science/Biochemistry/Biological Engineering or related field or B.S. with 2+ years of experience in related biotechnology field.

Required Experience and Skills:

• Hands-on/applied experience with biochemical and immunological techniques including but not limited to, the following: Cell culture, Flow Cytometry, ELISA, Fluorescence/Confocal imaging, Western Blots, qPCR.

• Experience in cell-based functional/potency assays for vaccines and/or biologics.

• Demonstrated ability to plan, execute, optimize, and troubleshoot analytical assays.

• Outstanding communication (oral and written), organization and time management skills; ability to work independently and collaboratively.

• Motivation to learn new skills, willingness to take on new challenges, and scientific curiosity.

Preferred Experience and Skills:

• Experience with statistical data analysis/software (JMP, spotfire, or R will be a plus) and presentation of results/conclusions. Experience with authoring technical documentation

• Experience with high throughput automated analytical platforms and liquid handers (Hamilton, Tecan).

• Experience with assay validation, qualification, and transfer to a regulated laboratory environment.

• Knowledge of Drug Substance and/or Drug Product, end-to-end process development, including microbial, live virus vaccine, gene therapy, or oncolytic virus processes, therapeutic proteins.

• Demonstrate ability and/or aptitude in data processing and advance data analysis.

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Required Skills:

Accountability, Accountability, Adaptability, Analytical Development, Analytical Method Development, Animal Vaccination, Assay, Biochemical Assays, Cell-Based Assays, Cell Cultures, Cell Physiology, Communication, Cytometry, Data Analysis, Gene Therapy, Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP), Immunoassays, Immunofluorescence Microscopy, Interpersonal Relationships, Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS), Laboratory Techniques, Mammalian Cell Culture, Pharmaceutical Biology, Primary Cell Culture, Real Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (qPCR) {+ 5 more}

Preferred Skills:

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Effective September 5, 2023, employees in office-based positions in the U.S. will be working a Hybrid work consisting of three total days on-site per week, Monday - Thursday, although the specific days may vary by site or organization, with Friday designated as a remote-working day, unless business critical tasks require an on-site presence.This Hybrid work model does not apply to, and daily in-person attendance is required for, field-based positions; facility-based, manufacturing-based, or research-based positions where the work to be performed is located at a Company site; positions covered by a collective-bargaining agreement (unless the agreement provides for hybrid work); or any other position for which the Company has determined the job requirements cannot be reasonably met working remotely. Please note, this Hybrid work model guidance also does not apply to roles that have been designated as “remote”.

The salary range for this role is

$85,600.00 - $134,800.00

This is the lowest to highest salary we in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. An employee’s position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, government requirements, and business or organizational needs.

The successful candidate will be eligible for annual bonus and long-term incentive, if applicable.

We offer a comprehensive package of benefits. Available benefits include medical, dental, vision healthcare and other insurance benefits (for employee and family), retirement benefits, including 401(k), paid holidays, vacation, and compassionate and sick days. More information about benefits is available at https://jobs.merck.com/us/en/compensation-and-benefits.

You can apply for this role through https://jobs.merck.com/us/en (or via the Workday Jobs Hub if you are a current employee). The application deadline for this position is stated on this posting.

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Employee Status:

Regular

Relocation:

Domestic

VISA Sponsorship:

No

Travel Requirements:

10%

Flexible Work Arrangements:

Not Applicable

Shift:

1st - Day

Valid Driving License:

No

Hazardous Material(s):

n/a

Job Posting End Date:

11/12/2025

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