Summary
~SANDOZ:
~Teamleiter:~Leitung und Management eines Teams, das generische Produkte, Prozesse und Verfahren im Einklang mit der globalen technischen Entwicklungsstrategie und den Zielen entwickelt; wissenschaftliches/technisches/GMP- und/oder qualitätsbezogenes Fachwissen anzuwenden, um komplexe RandD-Probleme anzugehen; Teammitglieder coachen; Verwaltung betrieblicher Aspekte im Labor oder in der Anlage; Entwicklung von Strategien für Wissenschaft und Technologien.~(Principal) Scientist: Leitung und Verwaltung aller Projekt-/lokalen Netzwerkaktivitäten und Mitwirkung an strategischen Entscheidungen; Entwerfen, Planen, Durchführen, ~Dokumentieren und Interpretieren von wissenschaftlichen/entwicklungsbezogenen Experimenten oder GMP-Tests oder Pilotanlagenprozessen zur Vorbereitung und rechtzeitigen Lieferung von generischen Produkten, Prozessen oder Verfahren innerhalb eines multifunktionalen Projektteams, das von einem Projektmanager/-leiter koordiniert wird; Wartung und Qualifizierung von Geräten/Infrastruktur und Verwaltung der betrieblichen Aspekte im Labor oder in der Anlage wie zugewiesen.
~Wissenschaftler:~Entwerfen, Planen, Durchführen, Interpretieren und Berichten von Ergebnissen wissenschaftlicher Experimente für die Entwicklung und rechtzeitige Verabreichung von Arzneimitteln (DP), Prozessen und Verfahren. Leiten und verwalten Sie alle Projekt-/lokalen Netzwerkaktivitäten, unterstützen/coachen Sie Teammitglieder, nehmen Sie an Unterteams teil und tragen Sie zu den allgemeinen Strategien und Zielen der SZ bei.
About the Role
Your responsibilities will include but are not limited to:
- You are accountable for assessing the needs associated with excipients for our innovative portfolio, recognizing the requirements of formulation experts, and selecting new excipients for implementation. You propose excipients based on scientific criteria like physical and chemical properties, their functionality, and biopharmaceutical performance, while also considering how their molecular structure and common impurities impact the stability of drug products.
- You collaborate with internal experts in key areas like pharmaceutical formulations, excipient management and procurement, technical operations, analytics, synthetic chemistry and project management to identify portfolio needs. You are accountable to turn this information into strategic plans and actions.
- You have expertise in creating pharmaceutical formulations, ideally those that address solubility or processibility challenges, as well as innovative formulations for Oligonucleotides or Radioligands.
- You closely collaborate with the excipient management team implementation of new excipients.
- You drive scientific discussions with external excipient and formulation experts from academia, industry and excipient manufactures.
- You contribute or lead as subject matter expert internal scientific networks providing guidance to project teams
- You understand excipient and DP manufacture related GMP and regulatory aspects
What you’ll bring to the role:
- Advanced degree in Chemistry or Pharmaceutical Technology. PhD preferred
- Minimum 2-4 years of successful industry experience demonstrating your applied scientific knowledge on excipients
- Excellent skills in excipients science and experience with drug product development
- Advanced knowledge about regulatory and compliance as well as commercial requirements for pharmaceutical excipients
- Good understanding of external expectations inclusive Health Authority requirements and guidelines (e.g. critical biopharma attributes (FDA) / critical formulation variables (EMA), excipient contributions to Nitrosamine formation, justification of excipient choice and specification (FRC))
- Strong influencing skills; capable of solving complex problems in a matrix system through strong communication and negotiation skills.
- Interdisciplinary thinking and interest in collaboration with other functions
- Good organizational and project management skills
Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion: Novartis is committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams' representative of the patients and communities we serve.
Accessibility and accommodation
Novartis is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to all individuals. If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the recruitment process, or in order to receive more detailed information about the essential functions of a position, please send an e-mail to [email protected] and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. Please include the job requisition number in your message.
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