What you'll be doing: * Advances complex drug product process development efforts as a technical lead within a cross-functional team across Novartis sites and organizations. * Leads projects within the drug product unit to enhance manufacturing gene therapy technologies, capabilities, and processes. * Independently plans, designs, executes and interprets complex development studies (with multiple experiment sets) related to process development and scale-up, ensuring studies balance time and resources. * Drives results and generates innovative solutions; takes independent action to solve scientific problems and drive their resolution. * Provide scientific and technical input for Drug Product/Fill-Finish process-related issues at internal Novartis sites