Manufacturing Scientist

At Elanco (NYSE: ELAN) – it all starts with animals!

As a global leader in animal health, we are dedicated to innovation and delivering products and services to prevent and treat disease in farm animals and pets. We’re driven by our vision of ‘Food and Companionship Enriching Life’ and our approach to sustainability – the Elanco Healthy Purpose™ – to advance the health of animals, people, the planet and our enterprise.

At Elanco, we pride ourselves on fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment. We believe that diversity is the driving force behind innovation, creativity, and overall business success. Here, you’ll be part of a company that values and champions new ways of thinking, work with dynamic individuals, and acquire new skills and experiences that will propel your career to new heights.

Making animals’ lives better makes life better – join our team today!

Are you naturally curious?  Have a passion to lead technical projects and apply project management tools?  Do you enjoy cross functional collaboration?  When presented with a problem, do you instinctively find proactive solutions?   Join our team.

We are seeking a self-motivated, analytical, innovative, and collaborative thinker to join our unique and highly skilled team.  In this manufacturing scientist role, you will drive strategic technical initiatives throughout the lifecycle of the product, serve as a project manager, improve the robustness and productivity of the process while ensuring safe, effective, compliant, and reliable products are delivered to our customers. 

Your Role: Advisor-Manufacturing Scientist

The Manufacturing Scientist (MS) will provide and ensure technical oversight of products within Elanco External Manufacturing (EEM)–Americas (North and Latin America) scope.  This key role is to ensure technical excellence and effective supply production across a portfolio of products (specifically medicated feed and nutritional health) produced at external contract manufacturers and suppliers.  Maintaining and improving product process capability, quality, and compliance as well as drive gross margin improvement through a technical productivity agenda are all part of this role.

Your Responsibilities:  

• Participate in Joint Process Team (JPT) meetings with contract manufacturers and external suppliers as primary technical manufacturing science point of contact.
• Ensure technical requirements of global standards and oversight are met using Change Management, Deviation, and Investigation Management.
• Maintain oversight of key batch processing records used at CMs, including SOP’s, Master Production Records, Standard Packaging Instruction’s.
• Write technical reports to convey status of product performance, capability and to communicate process metrics.
• Technical point of contact and subject matter expert for lifecycle aspects for Elanco External Manufacturing (EEM) managed products.

What You Need to Succeed (minimum qualifications):

• Education: Minimum of a Bachelors of Science degree with demonstrated career experience in related life science or engineering (e.g. pharmacy, chemistry, chemical engineering, veterinary medicine)
• Experience: Minimum 5 years experience in Pharmaceutical or Chemical Production, Technical Science/Manufacturing Science, and/or Quality Assurance in animal health medicated feed or nutritional animal health products
• Strong working knowledge of applied statistics, quality systems and regulatory requirements across multiple health authorities.

What will give you a competitive edge (preferred qualifications):

• Project management certification and strong skills, clear and concise communication skills, experience in working with interdisciplinary, multicultural teams.
• Understanding of analytical methods with knowledge of statistical methods and applicable software.
• Fundamental understanding of standard analytical testing.
• Strong proficiency in reviewing and writing technical documentation and reports and working knowledge of Veeva a bonus.
• Scientific curiosity and problem-solving drive.

Additional Information:

• Fluent in English (other languages of additional advantage)

• Travel required (15-25%) sometimes at short notice.

• Reports to: Director, TS/MS Americas (North and Latin America).

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Elanco is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status