Stellenbeschreibung Welcome to AbbVie As part of an international company with 50,000 employees worldwide and around 3,000 employees in Germany, you will have the opportunity to work closely with us to address the health challenges of tomorrow. Do you have a passion for improving health care around the world and for using your expertise to improve patients' quality of life? In a challenging work environment that allows you to broaden and develop your own skills? You’ve found the right place The QTAS (Quantitative, Translational & ADME Sciences) department in Ludwigshafen is seeking for an experienced senior scientist with DMPK background to support Discovery Projects as a QTAS Project Representative. As the successful candidate, you will contribute to advancing our small molecule pipeline by managing the characterization and selection of potential drug molecules mainly for Neuroscience indications throughout Discovery and early Development stages. To this end, you will serve as a primary contact for cross-functional project teams to adress questions and share knowledge across the fields covered by the QTAS department (e.g. ADME, PK, PK/PD, BA, Biomarker), and you will provide expert opinion for decision-making to ensure pipeline progression. Develop your expertise and join our team as Senior DMPK Scienstist II Project Representative (all genders) Your Key Responsibilities: Serve as a QTAS representative on multidisciplinary project teams supporting the development of novel small molecules; collaborate with project team members (e.g., discovery, toxicology, clinical pharmacology) and groups within QTAS to generate relevant data guiding target validation, compound characterization, and candidate selection Develop and drive the QTAS strategy for small molecule discovery, preclinical, and clinical development of projects to support decisions and milestone transitions Effectively communicate QTAS strategy and knowledge to project teams, functional leaders, and other key stakeholders to ensure alignment and influence decisions Demonstrate thorough understanding of ADME sciences and PK/PD aspects necessary to optimize drug candidates Coordinate and request ADME, PK and PK/PD studies in a timely manner and communicate protocols, timelines, needs and results back to team, ensuring optimized cycle times Integrate ADME, PK, PK/PD data with discovery biology data and provide thought leadership to project teams as a functional representative Prepare QTAS sections of regulatory submission documents (IND, IB, NDA); provide responses to regulatory questions and ensure generation of appropriate reports Mentor junior project reps Manage external projects/studies with CROs and in collaborations with universities.