Senior Principal Scientist - Analytical Development

SRG are supporting the growth of a leading pharmaceutical development services company as they upgrade their facilities and scale their teams as part of their 2024 plan. They are recruiting for a Principal / Senior Principal to act as number 2 to the current Director within their Analytical Sciences team. Within the role you have responsibility for driving the analytical science and associated regulatory components of client projects and providing mentoring and coaching to more junior analytical staff. Additionally as a senior member of the team, you will support growth of the business by providing technical consultancy and advice to clients, scientific guidance to internal staff and support to business development activities.

The key responsibilities of the role are to:

• Bring analytical expertise to guide the development of fit for purpose analytical methods for a range of simple and complex drug products, and trouble shoot any method development issues.
• Understand and articulate global regulatory requirements for a CMC submission and design the product strategy accordingly.
• Bring the right / specific scientific thinking together with pragmatic design thinking to deliver product and technology solutions for client's compounds and products
• Ensure they has the right analytical expertise and capability to support existing and new client programmes, including the introduction of new analytical technologies as appropriate
• Provide hands on laboratory trouble shooting for complex analytical challenges when required.
• Act as pharmaceutical development project leader / manager for some client projects
• Manage and review CRO activities on behalf of clients
• Management of the financial and contractual aspects of projects with clients, such as costing proposals and invoicing.
• Act as a key point of contact for their global client base..

Education, Qualifications, Experience, Skills and Capabilities:

• Educated to PhD and greater than 5 years' experience in the pharmaceutical sciences and drug development or bachelor's degree and greater than 10 years' experience in the pharmaceutical sciences and drug development
• Experience of progressing the analytical components of various drug projects through different development phases (discovery to launch) across global markets
• Wide ranging experience of interactions with global regulatory authorities
• Good understanding of ICH quality guidelines and global CMC regulatory requirements
• Ability to communicate well at all levels and to present to an audience
• Project leadership skills and experience

If you feel you could be a good fit for the role please apply with your CV in Word format.

Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group STEM Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.