Senior Formulation Scientist

Senior Formulation Scientist

Sandoz

Rudolstadt, Germany

Your Key Responsibilities:

Your responsibilities include, but not limited to:

• Design, plan and perform/supervise scientific experiments and contribute to project related scientific/technical activities under minimal supervision (e.g., interpret and report results, generate and evaluate data, draw relevant conclusions, optimize existing methods/processes);
• Establish innovative solutions for verification and control of critical quality attributes, critical material attributes or critical process parameter in cooperation with other colleagues. Apply quality risk management approach in product development Establish control procedures and specifications and review test procedures;
• Generate scientific documents to hand over to internal and/or external partners (e.g., MST, STO, authorities, external companies) and support generation of international registration documents under minimal supervision;
• Evaluate and initiate request of infrastructure/equipment and required investments (e.g. system ownership);
• Generate lab procedures or SOP’s, generate protocols and reports;
• Lead technical meetings during product development;
• For project-focused role: Lead assigned functional sub-teams; represent own function in technical teams (e.g. global CMC team) and fulfill all project tasks and responsibilities related to the own discipline;
• Communicate, address and solve problems (e.g. deviations and unexpected results from experiments) within own and broader area of responsibility; communicate effectively across organizational interfaces; lead the transfer of know-how or procedures to other departments or external contractors, including troubleshooting and on-site training; may require travel;
• Report and present scientific/technical results internally and contribute to publications, presentations, and patents;
• Own and utilize special tools/equipment and/or specialized facilities for product development, for example statistical analysis of data and design of experiments;
• Actively participate in knowledge exchange. Train and coach associate scientists and technicians, temporary employees, and employees under training/education;
• Adherence to Sandoz standards, in particular quality (cGxP, data control), ethical, health, safety, environment (HSE), and information security (ISEC);
• Support during internal and external audits and inspections.

Minimum Requirements

What you’ll bring to the role:

• PhD with at least 3 years relevant experience or BSc/MSc. scientific degree with at least 5 years of work-related experience;
• Fluent in English (written and spoken).

Experience/Professional Requirement:

• Experience in development of final dosage forms of hard to make products;
• Strong scientific skills allowing the drawing of accurate assumptions from limited data to assess the next step in a development program;
• An understanding of experiment and validation design and the requirements when documenting protocols for these exercises;
• An understanding of the parameters involved in scaling up of formulation processes;
• Technical/scientific protocol and report writing skills;
• DOE (Design of Experiments);
• QbD (Quality by design) and quality risk management;
• Strong communication and presentation skills;
• Able to communicate and lead projects in multicultural environment;
• Proven ability to manage and prioritize multiple projects;
• Good knowledge of relevant software tools (e.g. MS Office, statistical programs).

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