Development Scientist II or III; Product Development

About the role

Canadian Blood Services is seeking a Regular full‑time Development Scientist II or III (based on skills and experience) to join the Network Centre for Applied Development (NetCAD) team within the Innovation and Portfolio Management group of the Innovation division. The position will be based primarily in the Vancouver development location (2150 Western Parkway) with a hybrid work arrangement, requiring an on‑site presence at least 40 % of the time.

• Provide deep scientific and technical expertise on blood products, the processes used to manufacture them, and the analytical techniques used to characterize them.
• Work to deepen the organization’s understanding of the biology of blood products and the impact of processes used to manufacture them.
• Provide scientific expertise and rigor to ensure appropriate due diligence whenever new blood products are being introduced or changes are being made to the processes used to manufacture them.
• Conduct literature reviews, synthesize available evidence, and may draw conclusions of relevance to Canadian Blood Services.
• Lead the design of complex enabling and support studies as well as complex, larger‑scope and impact, multi‑arm development studies, ensuring engagement and participation of key stakeholders.
• Work as part of a large development project team to prepare, review and/or approve study designs, ensuring study objectives are clear and study designs are based on sound experimental principles; prepare, review and/or approve study protocols, ensuring alignment with the study design; oversee study execution as required ensuring adherence to protocols and good lab practices; review, analyse and interpret data, identify and troubleshoot issues, make recommendations on and may approve any changes needed to the study;
  
  synthesize study results and make conclusions and recommendations based on the study data.
• Work closely with external stakeholders (e.g., vendors) and key internal stakeholders including Medical, Supply Chain, Quality, Regulatory and Legal, providing scientific and technical expertise in support of development and validation activities, product labelling (Circular of Information) and Health Canada submissions.
• Support Medical in responding to product‑related questions from hospital customers.
• Work independently to lead complex blood product, manufacturing process or characterization assay issue investigations with a sense of urgency appropriate to the issue at hand, particularly where there are blood product availability implications or when suspect units have been returned from hospital customers.
• Present investigation results and recommendations to key internal and external stakeholders in plain language.
• Coach and mentor more junior development staff in areas of expertise and experience.
• Contribute to national and international visibility of Canadian Blood Services development work by preparing and submitting abstracts to, and presenting posters and oral abstracts as applicable at, local, national and international blood industry conferences.
• Support Canadian Blood Services contributions to the scientific literature by writing and submitting manuscripts based on Canadian Blood Services’ development work to peer‑reviewed scientific journals.
• Establish a professional network of scientific experts and collaborators from within the international blood industry.
• May be invited on occasion to speak at local, national and international meetings and conferences on the development work of Canadian Blood Services or on topics reflective of their scientific and technical expertise.
• May participate as a scientific and technical expert on various organisational working groups and committees.
• May participate in the organisation and running of national and international scientific meetings and conferences and be asked to do peer review of scientific abstracts and journal manuscripts, on topics related to blood and blood products.
• May participate as a Canadian Blood Services representing member of international blood component working groups and committees (e.g. BEST, ISBT).
• May hold an academic appointment at an academic institution (e.g.…