Be part of something altogether life-changing!

Working at Cytiva means being at the forefront of providing new solutions to transform human health. Our incredible customers undertake life-saving activities ranging from fundamental biological research to developing innovative vaccines, new medicines, and cell and gene therapies.

At Cytiva you will be able to continuously improve yourself and us – working on challenges that truly matter with people that care for each other, our customers, and their patients. With associates across 40+ countries, Cytiva is a place where every day is a learning opportunity – so you can grow your career and expand your skills in the long term.

Forming part of the Biotechnology segment at Danaher, we bring together dedicated technical expertise and talent to develop the next generation of life-changing therapeutics.

We are looking for a Fast Trak scientist to join our Fast Trak team, a global organization within Cytiva that works to support our customers in the biopharma industry.

The Fast Trak scientist is part of the Fast Trak EMEA team based out of Uppsala, Sweden. We are a dynamic and customer-facing team with great opportunities to develop and grow through a broad variety of process development services for various biomolecules as well as training courses supporting the EMEA biopharma industry. At Cytiva, our vision is, to advance future therapeutics from discovery to delivery.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to:

• As a Fast Trak scientist focusing on chromatography techniques and, if opportunity arise also upstream techniques, you will be coordinating activities and working directly with our customers in a dynamic and collaborative environment, acting as subject matter expert.
• You will take the role as an expert in discussions directly with the customer, develop and/or transfer methods and perform experiments during projects. You will work proactively to contributing to process development projects with creative ideas on how to best solve challenges using already in-place solutions or proposing the implementation of new ones.
• The work includes conducting independent scientific work on various customer process development projects with monoclonal antibodies, vaccines, recombinant proteins, plasmids etc., including both administrative and laboratory work, both for analytics and bioprocessing.
• The role can also include delivering training courses for customers, theoretical as well as practical, in the field of biomanufacturing.
• To effectively perform the job, you will develop and nurture your internal network within the local and Fast Trak global scientific teams while also securing a creative environment in the customer projects to support and identify successful and scalable solutions for their biomanufacturing processes.

The essential requirements of the job include:

• MSc in biotechnology, bioprocess/biomedical engineering or related life sciences field.
• Several years of experience working with chromatographic methods (e.g., affinity chromatography, SEC, IEX)
• Experience from basic in analytical techniques such as PCR, electrophoresis and ELISA/SPR methods.
• Experience of cultivations is meritorious.
• Experience from analytical method development and/or set up of SOPs and method validation, QC and/or release testing is meritorious.
• Strong presentation and communication skills. Since working language is English Advanced English skills is required both in oral and writing.
• A valid EU work permit is required for this role.
• Preferably you also have industrial experience in up- or downstream processing of biomolecules or viral vectors.

To be successful in this role, we believe that you are a person who thrives working in a flexible environment with demonstrated abilities to navigate in a collaborative, matrixed, and customer focused environment. You have a strong ability to spot customer needs, communicate solutions and build trust by collaborating to implement effective analytical methods.

Interview and selection will happen continuously, and the opening can be filled before last day of application. For questions regarding the role please contact hiring manager Jesper Hedberg at [email protected]. We look forward to hearing from you!

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