Senior Scientist, Toxicology I

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Company Description

AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at . on Twitter , Facebook , Instagram , YouTube and LinkedIn .

Job Description

Senior Scientist I, Occupational & Environmental Toxicologist

Genetic, Environmental, and Occupational Toxicology (GEO Tox) is a diverse team of scientists with the goals of supporting patient, environmental, and employee safety. The candidate will complete risk assessments supporting occupational, environmental, and manufacturing functions. The position will support programs across AbbVies therapeutic areas and involve a broad range of modalities across all stages from early discovery throughout development to marketed products.

We are seeking an experienced risk assessment toxicologist to join our team in Development Sciences, Pre-clinical Safety.

Responsibilities:

• Critically evaluate literature and toxicology reports/summaries and utilize tools such as read-across and in silico data to generate toxicology product risk assessments. This includes toxicology support for extractables and leachables, health-based exposure limits (HBELs) including permitted daily exposure limits (PDEs) and occupational exposure limits (OELs), and environmental risk assessments (ERA), and other contaminants.
• Successful collaboration with multi-functional teams to align on safety banding for implementation throughout the company.
• Support occupational health (hazard) categorizations and chemical registrations, i.e., GHS, CLP, and Safety Data Sheet (SDS).
• Plan and oversee studies for environmental assessments or worker safety studies to support regulatory filings or EHS.

Qualifications

Requirements:

• PhD in toxicology or related discipline, or masters with 5+ years of relevant experience, or bachelors with 8+ years of relevant experience
• Previous experience in a pharmaceutical or industry setting providing risk assessments preferred
• Proven record of successfully evaluating safety risks
• Excellent collaboration, multi-tasking, and communication skills
• Excellent writing skills and attention to detail with work
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and meet project deadlines

Desired skills:

• Occupational Exposure Banding, Performance-based exposure control limits, or evaluating toxicity data for Safety Data Sheets.
• Risk assessment authoring
• Knowledge and implementation with regulatory guidance, i.e., ISO-10993-X, ICHQ3C, ICHQ3D, ICHQ3E.
• Toxicity data mining in databases and both internal and external literature
• Broad range of software proficiency as well as in silico predictive tools for toxicity

Additional Information

Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law:

• The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes ingood faith it will pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individualcompensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, and we may ultimatelypay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future.

• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical/dental/visioninsurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.

• This job is eligible to participate in our short-term incentive programs.

Note: No amount of payis considered to bewages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable.The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefitsthat are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole and absolute discretion unless and until paid andmay be modified at the Companys sole and absolute discretion, consistent with applicable law.

AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives, serving our community and embracing diversity and inclusion. It is AbbVies policy to employ qualified persons of the greatest ability without discrimination against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy), physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected group status.

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