Description:
Welcome to an inspired career.
At Halozyme Hypercon™, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Halozyme Therapeutics, Inc., we are reinventing the patient experience and building the future of drug delivery. We are passionate about the important work we do and constantly strive to do more. We embrace transformation and work hard to innovate for the future. We do this together, as One Team – we rise by lifting others up and believe in the power of working together for the collective win. That’s why we need you—to help us make a significant impact by taking on increasingly complex challenges, leaping beyond the status quo, advancing our mission and making our One Team culture thrive.
Join us as a Senior Director, Process Development, and you’ll be part of a culture that welcomes diversity, thinks differently to solve problems, works collaboratively as one team, and delivers meaningful innovations that impact people’s lives.
How you will make an impact
Halozyme Hypercon is seeking a motivated individual to join our biotech company as a Senior Director, Process Development to support the development of the novel Hypercon™ formulation platform. This individual is accountable for leading the Process Development function within our Pharmaceutical Development team. The successful candidate will be responsible for developing, scaling up, and technical transfer of ultra-high concentration protein microparticle suspension drug products and advance of manufacturing platforms and product candidates from formulation feasibility studies into clinical and commercial manufacturing.
In this role, you’ll have the opportunity to:
- Lead and grow a nimble and high-performing Process Development team, responsible for defining and implementing the clinical and commercial manufacturing strategy for novel protein microparticle suspension-based products
- Provide strategic, technical and scientific leadership to the Process Development team and to cross-functional program and initiative teams
- Build cutting-edge process development capabilities that emphasize aseptic operations and deliver the desired physical characteristics of protein microparticles while preserving the biological properties of the active substance
- Maintain knowledge of current best practices of bioprocess and aseptic manufacturing. Identify emerging trends and technologies and lead implementation/feasibility assessment, as appropriate.
- Guide the execution of process development, scale-up, characterization, manufacturing trouble-shooting, and phase-appropriate validation activities, as well as the transfer of processes to internal labs and external CDMOs
- Collaborate and communicate effectively with external corporate partners and internal stakeholders across the Technical Development team with groups including Drug Product Innovation, Formulation Development, Analytical Development, Quality, and Translational Development
- Author, review and approve technical documents, including but not limited to study protocols, process development and validation reports, batch records and process/manufacturing sections of regulatory documents
- Maintain and grow process development lab space and capabilities and oversee process development budget across our multiple programs
- Actively participate in preparation of domestic and international regulatory filings in collaboration with internal and external stakeholders.
- Foster the growth and development of process development staff
- Represent the company externally at meetings (professional associations, with regulatory bodies, etc.)
Requirements:
To succeed in this role, you’ll need:
- Ph.D. or Master’s degree in Biological, Pharmaceutical, or Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Biochemistry or related discipline
- Minimum of 12 years (15 years with a MS) of relevant process development experience, including a minimum of 5 years in a managerial capacity
- Extensive experience in manufacturing lifecycle management, including process development, scale-up, and technology transfer in support of IND, clinical and/or commercial activities in the biotech or pharmaceutical industry.
- Prior experience in drug substance or drug product process development for biotherapeutics, with an established track record of translating lab-based processes to a clinical manufacturing setting toward commercialization. Experience with microparticle production and characterization is highly desirable.
- Experience developing and implementing GMP aseptic drug product filling processes highly desirable
- Demonstrated leadership skills, including the ability to manage a scientific team, communicate, coach, mentor and develop employees
- Strong scientific reasoning, problem-solving and engineering skills, including knowledge and practical experience implementing relevant technologies/unit operations toward the scale-up of aseptic protein microparticle suspensions.
- Deep expertise with monoclonal antibodies, proteins, and/or vaccines.
- Excellent interpersonal, organizational, negotiation and communication (verbal and written) skills are essential.
- Ability to think, plan, and influence strategically on the process development priorities across multiple projects is necessary.
- Must be a leader willing to be both a “coach and a player”.
- Willingness to travel domestically and internationally as needed
- Expertise with platform process design, scalability principles, and QbD methodologies
- Strong communication skills and comfort working with internal stakeholders and external partners.
- Experienced with the regulatory expectations for biotherapeutic and aseptic manufacturing
In return, we offer you:
- Full and comprehensive benefit program, including an Employee Stock Purchase Program and 401(k) matching.
- Opportunities to grow in a culture that prioritizes learning, development and progression through in-house programs and tuition reimbursement.
- A collaborative, innovative team that works as one to amplify your impact—on your career, the work you do and patients’ lives.
The most likely base pay range for this position is $240,000-$275,000 per year. Several factors, such as experience, tenure, skills, and particular business needs, will determine an individual’s exact level of compensation. Base salary is only one element of employee compensation at Halozyme. Total compensation could include bonuses, sales incentives, and equity awards.
Halozyme Hypercon provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.
To all agencies, please, no phone calls or emails to any employee of Halozyme Hypercon about this requisition. All resumes submitted by search firms/employment agencies to any employee at Halozyme Hypercon via email, the internet, or in any form and method will be deemed the sole property of Halozyme Hypercon unless such search firms/employment agencies were engaged by Halozyme Hypercon for this requisition and a valid agreement with Halozyme Hypercon is in place. If a candidate submitted outside of the Halozyme Hypercon agency engagement process is hired, no fee or payment of any kind will be paid.
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