Senior Clinical Application Specialist (Personalized Medicine)

Today, Lonza is a global leader in life sciences operating across three continents.

While we work in science, there’s no magic formula to how we do it.

Our greatest scientific solution is talented people working together, devising ideas that help businesses to help people.

In exchange, we let our people own their careers.

Their ideas, big and small, genuinely improve the world.

And that’s the kind of work we want to be part of.

As a member of the Lonza – Personalized Medicine Clinical Application Team, the Senior Clinical Application Scientist works in a high-performing, cross-functional team with the goal of developing, transferring and supporting scalable manufacturing processes for cell therapies using a novel manufacturing system.

The Senior Clinical Application Scientist works with various global Lonza groups, clinical and research centers within their geographical territory, to assure progress and stability of cell therapy projects.

The Senior Clinical Application Scientist evaluates and recommends new technologies to enhance efficiencies of processes and scale.  Routine activities include instrument demonstrations, customer trainings, and technical transfer of cellular therapy processes, while providing technical support and assay guidance to Personalized Medicine’s partners and customers.

Also, generate reports, execute experimental studies, analyze data, support the execution of development and manufacturing activities, and provide additional support to other departments as required (Quality Assurance, Quality Control, Program Management).

This role is 100% remote with a significant amount of travel domestic and/or international travel.

Key responsibilities:


* Plans and performs demonstrations and trainings for the Cocoon® Platform, eventual tech transfer of cell therapy processes, and ongoing support of Personalized Medicine customers/collaborators


* Leads the  build out of application based training regimen for use with newly onboarded clients


* Maintains up-to-date knowledge of the cell therapy field through continued research and trainings


* Critically analyzes processes for improvement and scalability and proactively suggests changes to protocol and assists customers in experimental design


* Facilitates scientific meetings between client and internal R&D teams in an effort to acquire VOC, clients specifications and build out customer profiles


* Utilizes expertise in upstream production, harvest, and recovery technologies to establish and optimize new processes for manufacturing


* Capable candidate troubleshoots processes, compiles and analyzes data, and summarizes results in high-quality reports supported with appropriate laboratory records.


* Independently designs and executes experiments.

Interprets results and proposes next steps.


* Helps create and revise task orders for contractual relationships.

Supports new client development.


* Delivers results in a timely f...