Senior Product Development Scientist

Who We Are

We touch the lives of over 200 million patients every day, and billions every year. After all, everyone needs healthcare or medication at some point.

We are Teva, a global pharmaceutical company, committed to increasing access to high-quality healthcare to patients around the world. We're currently recruiting for a Senior Product Development Scientist to join our team on a full time, permanent basis in Larne.

A Day In The Life Of A Senior Product Development Scientist

• Planning, leading and executing formulation activities associated with multiple assigned projects in line with corporate goals and local KPIs.
• Providing technical support across projects processes and equipment trains.
• Troubleshooting development issues.
• Developing plans and reports which manage and describe the product formulation and process development process in line with local procedures and ICH guidance.
• Participating in risk assessments during the planning phase of projects in order to maximize prior knowledge utilization.
• Working with relevant groups to understand the important characteristics associated with drug substances, drug products, devices and manufacturing processes.
• Coordinating physical testing to evaluate product characteristics.
• Being part of laboratory, process development, process scale-up and validation (both equipment and process validation) studies.
• Conducting transfer of manufacturing processes from laboratory through to commercial scale.
• Using techniques such as experimental design to develop reproducible and robust products and processes.
• Critically interpreting experimental data.
• Maintaining accurate project and laboratory records including development records and protocols.
• Managing procurement of CAPEX spend associated with projects, including spend at third part sites.
  
  

Who We Are Looking For

Do you have?

• Degree in Pharmacy, Chemistry or closely related subject.
• A PhD in pharmaceutics, chemistry or closely related subject.
• Experience of working in a pharmaceutical research organisation, in a cGMP environment.
• In-depth knowledge of the FDA regulations.
• Preformulation, formulation and process development experience across a range of dosage forms.
• Ability to support technical transfers of products to manufacturing sites.
• Knowledge of statistical experimental design and statistical interpretation of Data.
• Experience of leading formulation aspects of developmental projects.
  
  

Are you?

• Computer-literate - strong command of Microsoft Office programmes.
• Able to organise and chair meetings when necessary.
• Excellent in organizational, problem-solving activities.
• Flexible and able to work under pressure and deadlines.
• Good communicator using multiple media formats.
  
  

Reports To

Assoc.Director, R&D Department

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