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Help us improve access to life-changing therapies that can transform human health

We are Cytiva, a global provider of technologies and services that advance and accelerate the development and manufacture of therapeutics. Formerly part of GE Healthcare, we have a rich heritage tracing back hundreds of years, and a fresh beginning since 2020.

Our customers undertake life-saving activities. These range from fundamental biological research to developing innovative vaccines, biologic drugs, and novel cell and gene therapies. Our job is to supply the tools and services - the pots, pans, soups and sauces - they need to work better, faster and safer, leading to better patient outcomes.

What you’ll do

The Process Science Leader will build technical credibility for the Cytiva Cell Culture business by providing scientific and strategic support of upstream customers for cell culture products and new services offerings. This position will work closely with the commercial sales team within a designated territory. This role is designed to have direct customer facing responsibility for an assigned region.

The successful candidate will need to balance work time across all of the required activities. With a primary objective of achieving annual Design-In and financial targets, the focus must be on activities within the selling territory. It is imperative that the Process Science Leader is able to establish technical credibility and establish positive relationships with upstream cell culture/process development customers.

Duties include the following essential functions/responsibilities

• Work with the commercial team through a specific territory plan to find Cytiva Cell Culture media business opportunities and provide innovative solutions to meet/exceed financial sales targets.
• Establish technical credibility in product, applications and most importantly in the upstream biotherapeutic process development workflow to realize commercial business unit’s vision and mission.
• Develop personal technical credibility with the customer to develop a consultative relationship and advance the technical dialog with the overall objective of furthering a perceived contribution to the customer’s end goals.
• Interface and optimally influence external customers at all levels especially technical leaders.
• Identify upstream cell culture pain points, solutions and potential media development projects with commercial potential.
• Work with Global Cell Culture Services Leader and internal partners to develop suitable strategies and proposals
• Write the project proposal by working with internal operations technical leads and product managers
• Close technical elements of the sales process
• Participate in execution of media development collaborations/services
• Guide internal teams (e.g. product management, marketing, R&D)
• Represent Cytiva Cell Culture and Cell Culture Service business at scientific forums
• Work cross functionally with appropriate internal teams to collate internal data and develop scientific, thought leadership presentations/posters
• Respond to customer technical concerns via telephone and email. Document complaints and work within organization to troubleshoot and resolve the issues.
• Provide high level pre- and post-sales process development support of cell culture media product/services. Handle customer expectations of scientific outcomes. Triage or transfer technical questions for products to relevant internal partners.

Who you are

Qualifications/Requirements

• A MS or PhD degree in Life Sciences or Biomedical Engineering or related field.
• Must have 10+ years of proven experience in cell line development, cell culture process development and/or manufacturing within a pharmaceutical/biotechnology company
• Must have experience in commercial media development and/or experience performing media/process optimization within a pharmaceutical/biotechnology company
• Laboratory and team management experience required
• Proven technical leadership in biopharma and/or biotechnology industry
• Track record of working with CHO cell lines
• Ability to develop presentations and posters with available applications datasets
• Diverse hands-on experience in multiple cell lines and bioreactor systems highly desirable
• Actual experience in bringing a successful biotherapeutic product to market highly desirable
• Senior level contacts with cell line development, process development individuals with emerging, mid and established biotech/biopharma companies
• Must be willing to travel (estimated 50-60%)

Desired

• Experience working with various mammalian cell culture processes and/or micro-carriers
• Strong time management and organizational skills
• Excellent communication skills (writing, articulating, listening, questioning) and ability to collaborate with management, sales and service teams and customers
• Proven track record to contribute in a multi-disciplinary team environment
• Self-starter, energizing, results oriented, and able to multi-task
• Demonstrated problem solving ability and results orientation
• Demonstrated ability to work in a collaborative, matrixed, and customer focused environment
• Experience in working for a contract services business
• Proficiency in Korean

Who we are

Whatever your role, we bring purpose and challenge into our everyday work. If you are driven to make the world a better place thanks to science and medicine, you’ll feel right at home here. If you’re flexible, curious and relentless, you’ll belong. If you are excited about a global culture, this can be the place to further your career.

Cytiva is a global life sciences leader with over 7000 associates across 40 countries who are dedicated to our mission to advance and accelerate therapeutics. As a trusted partner to customers that range in scale and scope, Cytiva brings efficiencies to research and manufacturing workflows, ensuring the development, manufacture and delivery of transformative medicines to patients.

Cytiva is part of the Danaher family of life sciences companies, a global science and technology innovator committed to helping customers solve complex challenges and improving quality of life around the world. As part of a greater Life Sciences platform, you’ll redefine what it means to innovate every day. Pioneering the future of science, research, and medicine gives you unlimited opportunities to find the next breakthrough that will best serve scientists and medical professionals in the fight to save lives. 

Danaher Corporation and all Danaher Companies are equal opportunity employers that evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, marital status, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or other characteristics protected by law. The “EEO is the Law” poster is available here.