Degradation Sciences and Structural Elucidation, Separation Sciences (Secondment 6-12 Months)

WHY PATIENTS NEED YOU

At Pfizer, our purpose is to deliver breakthroughs that change patients’ lives. Your role will be pivotal in translating advanced science and technologies into impactful therapies and vaccines, ultimately improving patients' lives. Whether you are involved in discovery sciences, ensuring drug safety and efficacy, or supporting clinical trials, you will leverage cutting-edge design and process development capabilities to accelerate and deliver best-in-class medicines to patients globally.

WHAT YOU WILL ACHIEVE

Secondment opportunity will provide hands-on experience with our DSSE (Degradation Sciences and Structural Elucidation) Separation Sciences team within ARD (Analytical Research and Development) tasked with purifying and characterizing a wide range of compounds, from traditional small molecules to novel biotherapeutics. The team is dedicated to leveraging automation, instrumentation, and software technologies to continuously enhance our separations platforms and you will work alongside experts in an interdisciplinary environment. The colleague will be a leader in our Separations team responsible for delivering compound purification and driving the development of innovative, robust, and efficient purification processes and technologies essential for the advancement of our diverse and extensive drug portfolio.

HOW YOU WILL ACHIEVE IT

• Designing, implementing and operating within a purification workflow and purification team, responsible for laboratory research, planning, prioritizing projects, workload and serving as a scientific and technical expert.

• Collaborating closely with synthetic chemists and separation scientists to develop and deliver automated purification platforms and strategies while driving advancements in analytical and separation technologies to include custom separation and analytical methods to address analytical challenges across various disease areas and modalities.

• Establishing and leading innovation projects aimed at enhancing purification and analytical technologies as well as optimizing workflows and process efficiencies.

• Applying a diverse range of analytical and preparative chromatographic instruments and technologies including HPLC-MS, SFC-MS, NP-HPLC, MCSGP and flash chromatography

• Using additional analytical methods and automation technologies to augment analytical and separations capabilities and overall efficiency.

• Using a wide range of software supporting chromatographic processes including data analysis and process automation.

QUALIFICATIONS

Must-Have

• Applicant must have a bachelor's degree with at least 12+ years of experience.

• Expertise in modern chromatographic technologies with a strong background in preparative scale-up activity for both small and large molecules.

• Demonstrated experience with software and hardware automation of purification processes.

• Established scientific reputation in separation sciences.

  Nice-to-Have

• Master's degree with at least 9+ years of experience; OR a PhD with 4+ years of experience; OR a MD with 0+ years of experience.

PHYSICAL/MENTAL REQUIREMENTS

• Ability to perform calculations and data analysis is required. 

• This role requires the use of laboratory equipment and working in laboratories. Some lifting may be required. 

OTHER JOB DETAILS

• Last Date to Apply for Job: September 21, 2026

• Additional Location Information: NA

• Eligible for Relocation Package – NO

• Secondment 6-12 months

• If you are currently in a driving position with a fleet vehicle and this secondment does not require driving as an essential function of the position for 12 months or longer, you will be required to turn in your fleet vehicle for the duration of the non-driving secondment.  Please refer to the Fleet Policy and Procedures document for more information.

• There will be no change to your current work location.

• Note: This secondment offers a valuable opportunity for professional growth. It will need to be funded by the secondee’s home market.

Relocation assistance may be available based on business needs and/or eligibility.

Candidates must be authorized to be employed in the U.S. by any employer.

U.S. work visa sponsorship (such as TN, O-1, H-1B, etc.) is not available for this role now or in the future.

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