Analytical Sciences & Biochemistry Scientist - VIE

Analytical Sciences & Biochemistry Scientist - VIE Contract

• Location:
  
  Canada, Toronto
• Target start date: 01/04/2026

iMove, the Sanofi VIE Program, is available to citizens of the European Economic Area (EU + Norway, Liechtenstein and Iceland) aged between 18 and 28.

PLEASE NOTE that since this program is primarily an international development program, candidates cannot apply to a VIE assignment in their own country of citizenship.

PLEASE NOTE that applications that are only submitted in French cannot be considered by our non-French speaking partners at Sanofi worldwide. Therefore, only applications that are submitted in English will be considered. Please make sure to apply with your personal email address.

As Analytical Sciences & Biochemistry Scientist
VIE within our Vaccines team, you’ll work with protein, carbohydrate, and lipid analytical methods, especially liquid chromatography to develop, support, optimize and qualify/validate methods for these new and commercial vaccine projects.

Join the team protecting half a billion lives every year with next-gen science, mRNA innovation, and AI-driven breakthroughs. In Vaccines, you’ll help advance prevention on a global scale - and shape the future of immunization.

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We’re an R&D-driven, AI-powered biopharma company committed to improving people’s lives and delivering compelling growth. Our deep understanding of the immune system – and innovative pipeline – enables us to invent medicines and vaccines that treat and protect millions of people around the world. Together, we chase the miracles of science to improve people’s lives.

• Lead the development and qualification of appropriate assays for the release, characterization, and stability assessment of vaccines.
• Lead the design and execution of experimental studies for the development of new test methods for use as release, stability, and characterization assays for new vaccine products through literature search, feasibility assessment, assay optimization and robustness testing, and qualification/validation.
• Lead method transfer or co-validations with other testing labs, investigations, and test performance monitoring/trending.
• Be responsible for the day-to-day functions within the laboratory to ensure project milestones are achieved on time and performed in a GMP (Good Manufacturing Practice) compliant manner with respect to training, documentation, and instrumentation, and be responsible for implementation of analytical strategy with thorough method development and qualification.
• Lead the evaluation of new technologies in their area of expertise to improve upon throughput, precision, accuracy, and overall quality of methods employed.
• Promote good communication and teamwork to ensure flexibility in the workplace and transversal cooperation with internal customers and other testing groups.

• Specific scientific experience in the development of new analytical methods for biomolecules and/or vaccines would be highly preferred.
• Experience in analytical method development, validation/transfer, data management, automation, and general statistics is preferred.
• Experience in maintaining laboratories and equipment in current Good Manufacturing Practice, cGMP, compliance.

• Proven verbal and written communication, planning, organizational and documentation skills.
• Familiarity with testing in compliance with current electronic data integrity regulations and with a broad range of analytical instrumentation and techniques with proven familiarity for analytical chromatography and/or mass spectrometry-based methods:
  High/Ultra Performance Liquid Chromatography (H/UPLC) is highly preferred.
• Familiarity with spectroscopy methods (UV-vis and fluorescence), electrophoresis-based methods (Capillary Gel Eletrophoresis (CGE), Capillary Iso Electric Focusing (cIEF), western blot, capillary western such as Protein Simple Wes/Jess) and multiple chromatography detectors (Ultra Violet (UV), Fluorescence Detector (FLD), Refractive Index (RI), Multi Angle Light Scattering (MALS), Charged Aerosol Detector (CAD), Pulsed Amperometric…