Scientist, Pharmaceutical Development

Scientist, Pharmaceutical Development

Jazz Pharmaceuticals

Sittingbourne, United Kingdom

Essential Functions/Responsibilities

• Operates in accordance with the Jazz corporate values of being patient driven, passionate, innovative, collaborative, accountable, having integrity and achieving excellence
• The job holder is responsible for maintaining cGxP and EH&S knowledge applicable to the job.
• Provides support to own team and understands priorities of others.
• Builds productive internal relationships mainly within own area of work with some broader functional interaction
• Perform analytical testing for research and IMP release
• Ensure at all times that Good Practice is followed and all areas are maintained to the appropriate standards
• Record all experimental outcomes in an appropriate format.
• Maintain all working areas in clean and tidy state.
• Ensure all applicable quality measures are met and adhered to.
• Assist in the creation and maintenance of all relevant cGxP documents.
• Analyse and report results for starting materials, intermediates, API and drug product for use as Investigational Medicinal Products.
• Perform all necessary testing in accordance with company procedures
• Take part in authoring specifications, test methods and other analytical procedures.
• Support analytical method transfers to other laboratories
• Support qualification and maintenance of the analytical facilities and equipment.
• Take part in appropriate validation activities
• Ensure training records are kept up to date in accordance with company procedures
• Promptly notify the management about OOS/OOT/OOE and take part in investigation as per company procedures
• Take part in scheduling, testing, and reporting for development stability programmes
• Support management of reference standards and retained samples within the department (as appropriate to the role)

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Practical understanding in a range of scientific skills and technologies (e.g. HPLC/GC, Dissolution, wet chemistry) and ability interpret generated data. Demonstrated ability to perform phase appropriate method development and validation for API and drug product.
• Proven ability to write analytical test methods, specifications, method dev/validation protocols, and method dev/validation reports. Demonstrated ability to support lab investigations.
• Thorough working knowledge of Microsoft Office packages
• High level of numeracy
• Communication skills including written and presentational
• Excellent attention to detail
• Collaborative team player.
• Pro-active approach to problem solving.
• Ability to coach and mentor less experienced colleagues.
• Able to develop and maintain positive working relationships with others.

Required/Preferred Education and Licenses

• Required: A relevant Science degree and/or relevant experience
• Preferred: Higher qualification (e.g. MSc/PhD) in relevant topic. Awareness of basic statistical principles.

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