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Pharmaceutical Formulation Scientist
Salary Dependent on Experience plus Bonus
The Company
My client is a successful privately-owned pharmaceutical company with a permanent position open for an experienced formulation scientist to join their licensed product development team.
A medium sized award-winning pharmaceutical manufacturer, they have state of the art facilities and this presents a fantastic opportunity for a formulation scientist to accelerate their career in the pharmaceutical industry as the department is poised for growth.
You will be working on key projects in solutions and suspensions product development, developing, testing and registering a range of formulations for global markets.
The Opportunity
As a Formulation Scientist you will conduct formulation development work including pre-formulation and formulation characterisation whilst supporting process development and manufacturing as required.
You will be able to provide technical advice, produce data and reports to support the formulation development process from initial concept through to scale up and licensed product.
Main Tasks And Responsibilities
- Devise, prepare and characterise new formulations
- Plan experiments and write protocols, to meet project goals
- Keeping detailed and accurate records of all work undertaken
- Write documents to support, and for inclusion in, regulatory submissions
- Communicate progress of projects effectively to senior managers
- Sourcing of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients and excipients in line with current regulatory guidelines
- Organisation of development laboratory, equipment and consumables
About You
Previous formulation development experience within the pharmaceutical industry is required for this role. Ideally this will be 2+ years.
Experience of oral liquid products and / or paediatric medicines will be of particular interest.
You will have a degree level science qualification in pharmaceutical sciences or related discipline.
Other Skills And Experience Required
- Creativity to come up with ideas as well as execute given instructions
- Ability to work to tight deadlines, whilst juggling a range of tasks simultaneously
- Good interpersonal and communication skills
- High attention to detail
If you're interested in the above role then please click apply or get in touch to discuss further.
Consult will endeavour to contact candidates within 14 days of application. However, if you do not hear back after 2 weeks then please assume on this occasion, unfortunately, you have not been successful.
