Pharmaceutics Scientist

Eurofins Scientific is an international life sciences company, providing a unique range of analytical testing services to clients across multiple industries, to make life and our environment safer, healthier and more sustainable. From the food you eat, to the water you drink, to the medicines you rely on, Eurofins laboratories work with the biggest companies in the world to ensure the products they supply are safe, their ingredients are authentic, and labelling is accurate.

Eurofins is dedicated to delivering testing services that contribute to the health and safety of society and the planet, and to its corporate responsibility to protect the environment and ensure diversity, equity, and inclusion across the entire network of Eurofins companies.

Eurofins PSS Insourcing Solutions is a global, award-winning insourcing solution. We place our skilled team directly at the client site, managing operations seamlessly and eliminating complexities. We ensure a strategic, long-term service commitment that delivers value directly at the client’s site, utilising their facilities, equipment, and methodologies, while maintaining the same service, expertise, and cGMP compliance available at the Eurofins facility.

Job Description

This is a fulltime, permanent position working a 36.5 hour week, Monday - Friday 08:00 - 16:30. This role is homebased within the UK but we would consider overseas applicants.

The purpose of this role is to provide technical support during the transfer of manufacturing processes for established products (OSDs) within Client sites and to external manufacturing partners.

• Lead, assess and support investigations on manufacturing process deviations and market complaints, ensuring suitable corrective and preventative actions are identified.
• Identify opportunities for manufacturing process improvements, including increased yield, reduced lead time, reduced carbon footprint, and reduction of CoG.
• Lead, assess and support the implementation of approved complex technical improvements and change projects, assuring product and methods performance.
• Support lifecycle activities (e.g., change control, continuous process verification, support to GMP inspections) for products under your accountability, to ensure performance and compliance across sites.
• Contribute to regulatory file authoring and review, to support regulatory variations, license renewals, and responses to questions from regulatory authorities.
• Actively share knowledge and experience and contribute to the overall growth of analytical skills in the client service area.

Qualifications

• Degree, Master’s degree or PhD level with experience post-degree in an appropriate discipline such as Chemistry, Pharmacy, Chemical Engineering, Pharmaceutical Sciences, or a similar discipline.
• Good understanding of OSD products life-cycle from late-stage development to launch and through the commercial life cycle.
• A technical understanding of raw materials, intermediates, API, and drug product manufacturing steps.
• Understanding of critical factors including the precise replication of process parameters that influence physical properties and hence product quality, yield, manufacturability, and bioavailability.
• Ability to interrogate data.
• Strong networking skills with the ability to communicate across functional boundaries and influence others to achieve results.

Additional Information

At Eurofins, we are growing, innovating, and always learning. We celebrate the achievements of our employees through annual long service awards, recognize our colleagues' special life events, and we are committed to charitable causes through global fundraising activities.

As a Eurofins employee, you will benefit from:

• Reward and Recognition
• Health Cash Plan
• Life Assurance (4 times annual salary)
• Company Pension Plan
• Employee Assistance Programme – 24/7 confidential support
• Free car parking
• Worldwide career opportunities
• Access to Perkbox, allowing you to save money all year round.

What Happens Next

Our people are the backbone of what we do, so it's incredibly important we find the right individuals to join us. As a potential new recruit, you'll be invited to meet the team in the form of an assessment centre or a staged interview process, dependent on the role and its requirements. This will give you the opportunity to see what working for Eurofins is really like and enable us to get to know your key skills and strengths.

Your data
As part of any recruitment process, the company collects and processes personal data relating to job applicants. The company is committed to being transparent about how it collects and uses that data and to meeting its data protection obligations.

We embrace diversity! Eurofins network of companies believes in strength and innovation through diversity, being an Equal Opportunity Employer. We prohibit discrimination against employees or applicants based on gender identity and/or expression, race, nationality, age, religion, sexual orientation, disability, and everything else that makes employees of Eurofins companies unique.

Sustainability matters to us! We are well on our way to achieving our objective of carbon neutrality by 2025, through a combination of emission reduction and compensation initiatives. We encourage our laboratory leaders to make sustainable changes at their local level, and in addition to their initiatives, we also count on our dedicated carbon reduction team to help us achieve this goal!

Find out more on our career page: https://careers.eurofins.com/