Summary
About the Role
Major accountabilities:
- Oversee and lead all activities of assigned teams /projects; meet customer needs.
- Work according to appropriate standards for quality, ethics, health, safety, environment, protection and information security; lead initiatives to ensure continuous improvement; all activities have to be aligned with organizational workflows and procedures.
- Evaluate and interpret results, draw relevant conclusions; supervise project related activities; perform complex tasks without having established procedures.
- Oversee and also write protocols, scientific reports, lab procedures or process, related SOPs; write scientific documents intended for external partners or for generation of registration documents; interact with authorities.
- Communicate, address and solve problems within own and broader area of responsibility; communicate effectively across organizational interfaces; lead the transfer of know how to other departments or external contractors, including troubleshooting and on site training.
- Develop analytical control strategies and collaborate with formulation development team to provide analytical solutions to complex challenges; lead the optimization of project related scientific /technical activities or processes, coordinate local team(s); guide development and implementation of new technologies.
- Provide scientific and technical guidance; actively foster knowledge exchange. Develop, mentor and coach other scientific associates; present scientific /technical results internally and contribute to publications, presentations and patents.
- Lead assigned teams; represent own technical function in teams and fulfill all project tasks and responsibilities related to the own discipline.
- Broadly use professional concepts in accordance with company objectives to solve complex problems in creative and effective ways.
- Contribute to many cost center goals and objectives; may contribute to service line goals.
- Responsible for providing scientific leadership and project management for multiple projects.
- Plan, coordinate, implement and take full responsibility for all designated tasks associated with Analytical R&D for the formulation development unit.
- Develop detailed plans and timelines, develop Analytical strategies and plans for designated projects from development to cGMP labs.
Minimum Requirement:
- Full time Doctorate in Pharmaceutical Sciences/Analytical or Organic Chemistry with 10+ years’ experience
- Operations Management and Execution
- Project Management
- Collaborating across boundaries
- Functional Breadth
- People Matters
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