Formulation Scientist / Development Project Manager

1w1 week ago

NextPharma

Göttingen, DE · Full-time · €70,000 – €95,000

About this role

NextPharma is one of Europe's leading contract manufacturers in the pharmaceutical, biotech, and health care industries, with around 2,500 colleagues in Germany, France, England, Finland, and Norway. Speed drives us, filling our work world with dynamics and growth. Our best recipe for shared success: room for passion, where excellent service worldwide inspires and passion is the best medicine.

The role demands a dynamic and disciplined personality to strengthen the team at sites in Göttingen, Waltrop, or Berlin. Focus on coordinating and managing development and transfer projects internally and with international customers. Collaborate with specialists in galenics, analytics, and commercial manufacturing for formulation, process development, scale-up, and validation.

Daily tasks include conceptualizing development plans with risk analyses and QbD aspects, supporting production trials, and handling technical GMP documentation. Create offers, plan revenues, and review SOPs and work instructions. Work successfully within matrix teams in a GMP-regulated environment.

Join a highly professional team in a strongly expanding corporate group. Benefit from flat hierarchies and the open door principle. Embrace an interesting, varied activity fueled by passion and the next step forward.

Requirements

Completed degree in pharmacy or comparable qualification (e.g., pharmaceutical technology, Master of Pharmacy)
PhD in pharmaceutical technology desirable
Experience in pharmaceutical technology of solid, semi-solid, and/or liquid non-sterile dosage forms, scale-up, and process development
Knowledge of specific legal areas for pharmacists
Experience in project management
Initial experience in GMP-regulated environment
Knowledge of analytical methods (HPLC/GC etc.)
Fluent German and English in word and writing

Responsibilities

Coordinate and project manage development and transfer projects internally and at the interface to international customers
Conceptualize, plan, and track development and transfer projects with specialists from galenics, analytics, and commercial manufacturing
Develop development plans and reports, project planning focused on formulation and transfer activities including risk analyses and QbD aspects
Conceptualize and support production trials, create and review technical and GMP documentation
Create offers for requested and ongoing projects
Plan revenues in assigned projects
Create and review formulations, SOPs, work instructions, and other GMP-relevant documents