Associate Director, Binding and Cell-Based Bioassay - Onsite (West Chester, PA)

Date: Jul 29, 2025

Location:

West Chester, United States, Pennsylvania, 19380

Company: Teva Pharmaceuticals

Job Id: 63105

Who we are

Together, we’re on a mission to make good health more affordable and accessible, to help millions around the world enjoy healthier lives. It’s a mission that bonds our people across nearly 60 countries and a rich, diverse variety of nationalities and backgrounds. Working here means working with the world’s leading manufacturer of generic medicines, and the proud producer of many of the products on the World Health Organization’s Essential Medicines List. Today, at least 200 million people around the world take one of our medicines every single day. An amazing number, but we’re always looking for new ways to continue making a difference, and new people to make a difference with.

The opportunity

Teva’s Global Research & Development (R&D) organization is devoted to the development of new medicines, devices and combination products that provide meaningful therapeutic benefit to patients worldwide. Combining creativity, scientific rigor and our extensive knowledge on a broad range of technologies, our scientists, engineers, medical doctors and project leaders across the globe use their expertise to innovate novel biologics, biosimilars, small molecule specialty medicines, generics and over-the-counter therapies.

The Associate Director at Bioassay Department of Biologics CMC leads a team of professionals to develop and execute plans on binding and cell-based bioassay development, qualification, and validation to support both the clinical and commercial stage programs. This important leadership role will function as an expert to provide technical guidance to scientists to design, troubleshoot, and transfer various assays. This role requires close collaboration with cross-functional teams to support regulatory submissions. This role reports to the head (Senior Director) of Bioassay Department.

Location: This is a fully onsite role based in West Chester, PA

How you’ll spend your day

Lead and oversee development, qualification, and validation activities for binding (ELISA, homogeneous), cell-based, flow cytometry, and other functional assays.
Provide guidance to design, develop, optimize, qualify, validate, and transfer potency methods to support the release and characterization of biologics in conformance with cGxPs.
Lead and support characterization and comparability studies; support establishment of control strategy for early and late-stage programs.
Partner with the stakeholders and SMEs to align on priorities, resources, support, and expertise as required.
Work with bioassay team management and develop talents; promote team work orientated initiatives and operational excellence.

Your experience and qualifications

Ph.D. in Biological Sciences, Cell Biology, Molecular Biology, or related field and a minimum of 7 years of related working experience, OR Master's degree in a scientific field of study with a minimum of 10 years of relevant working experience.
Minimum 2 years of management experience, including the management of staff and activities within a matrix environment.
Ability to effectively manage a portfolio of projects, multi-task in a highly dynamic environment, and influence cross-functional teams in a professional and positive manner.
Deep working knowledge of regulatory guidance and quality standards; experience authoring and reviewing regulatory submissions and responses as well as other interactions with Health Authorities.
Excellent verbal and written communications skills, and an ability to excel in a team-based environment.

Enjoy a more rewarding choice

We offer a competitive benefits package, including:

· Comprehensive Health Insurance: Medical, Dental, Vision, and Prescription coverage starting on the first day of employment, providing the employee enrolls.

· Retirement Savings: 401(k) with employer match, up to 6% and an annual 3.75% Defined Contribution to the 401k plan.

· Time Off: Paid Time Off including vacation, sick/safe time, caretaker time and holidays.

· Life and Disability Protection: Company paid Life and Disability insurance.

· Additional benefits include, but are not limited to, Employee Assistance Program, Employee Stock Purchase Plan, Tuition Assistance, Flexible Spending Accounts, Health Savings Account, Life Style Spending Account, Volunteer Time Off, Paid Parental Leave, if eligible , Family Building Benefits, Virtual Physical Therapy, Accident, Critical Illness and Hospital Indemnity Insurances, Identity Theft Protection, Legal Plan, Voluntary Life Insurance and Long Term Disability and more.

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