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’ site, utilising their facilities, equipment, and methodologies, while maintaining the same service, expertise, and cGMP compliance available at the Eurofins facility. If you're an employee seeking an exceptional career journey, Eurofins PSS Insourcing Solutions® is your gateway to a future where innovation, collaboration, and success converge. Join us in a world where excellence knows no boundaries!

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 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 processes deviations and on market complaints, ensuring suitable corrective and preventative actions are identified
• Identify opportunities for manufacturing process improvements, including increase of yield, reduction of lead time, reduction of carbon footprint, reduction of CoG.
• Lead, assess and support 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 response to questions from regulatory Authorities.
• Actively share knowledge and experience and contribute to the overall growth of the analytical skills in the client service area.

• Degree, Master degree or PhD level with experience post degree in an appropriate discipline such as Chemistry, Pharmacy, Chemical Engineering, Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Sciences or 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 material, intermediates, API and drug product manufacturing steps.
• A broad range of analytical understanding in line with material science and formulation.
• 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 skill with the ability to communicate across functional boundaries and influence others to achieve results.

At Eurofins we are growing, innovating and always learning. We celebrate the achievements of our employees through annual long service awards, recognise 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
• Everyone who joins our team also gets access to Perkbox, allowing you to save money all year round. Whether its supermarket savings or days out, the daily coffee or a summer holiday – there’s something to suit everyone’s lifestyle.

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 it's requirements, this will give you the opportunity to see what working for Eurofins is really like and enable us to get you 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 believe in strength and innovation through diversity, being an Equal Opportunity Employer. We prohibit discrimination against employees or applications 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 to achieve this goal!

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