Sr. Research and Development Advisor; R5-R7

Sr. Research And Development Advisor

At Lilly, the work is demanding because patients are waiting. We unite caring with discovery to help make life better for people around the world, knowing that every decision, every detail, and every day matters. Headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, our over 50,000 employees around the globe take on complex challenges to discover and deliver life-changing medicines, strengthen how health is understood and managed, and support the communities we serve.

This is hard, urgent, selfless work—but it's work worth doing. If you're driven by purpose and ready to bring your best to work that truly matters for patients, we invite you to join us.

Eli Lilly and Company seeks a Sr. Research and Development Advisor (R5-R7) to define the use of analytical control strategies and the use of analytical, bioanalytical and characterization methods to design an integrated control strategy enabling process and product development. Develop the portfolio strategy and application of technical capabilities to the portfolio. Introduce new methodologies for optimization of existing modalities. Develop portions of analytical control strategies including reference materials.

Comply with corporate, divisional, and departmental procedures, including GMP, safety, and other regulations. Verify, qualify, and validate active pharmaceutical ingredients and drug products. Ensure work and team activities are aligned with all relevant developmental quality, regulatory, HSE, GLP, and GMP requirements.

Position requires a Ph.D. in Biochemistry, Chemistry, Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, or a related STEM field, and 3 years of academic or employment experience designing experiments, generating data, and interpreting results independently. Academic or employment experience must include a minimum of: 3 years of experience using LIMS or other informatics interfaces within the laboratory; 3 years of experience interfacing with discovery, and/or CMC functions;

3 years of experience using biophysical assays including CD, DLS and DSC; 3 years of experience developing methods to support in-process, release, characterization analysis, and stability testing of active pharmaceutical ingredients; 3 years of experience in developing advanced NMR methods (multidimensional, relaxation, and diffusion
-based techniques) to study the structure, function, and interactions of biomolecules including therapeutic peptides and proteins in complex formulation; 3 years of experience with chemo metric analysis of NMR data and familiarity with related software platforms/development environments such as MNova, MATLAB, SIMCA, R and/or Python; and 3 years of experience designing and executing biophysical studies to assess the stability of biomolecules in formulation.

Less than 5% domestic travel required.

Job location:

Indianapolis, IN.

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Africa, Middle East, Central Asia (AMECA), Black Employees at Lilly (BE@Lilly), Chinese Culture Network (CCN), EnAble, Evolve, Lilly Indian Network (LIN), Organization of Latinx at Lilly (OLA), Pride (LGBTQ+ Allies), Veterans Leadership Network (VLN) and Women's Initiative for Leading at Lilly (WILL).

Actual compensation will depend on a candidate's education, experience, skills, and geographic location. The anticipated wage for this position is $46,613.00 - $ per year.