Compounding Specialist, Compounding Services

Medisca is a global company leveraging strong partnerships to serve healthcare professionals across diverse wellness disciplines. Offering extensive and essential solutions - including pharmaceutical ingredients and service, mixing technology manufacturing, analytical testing, and education – Medisca is bridging the gaps in healthcare with an unwavering commitment to precision, innovation, and societal impact.

The Compounding Specialist, Compounding Services will be a resource to internal and external clients, for all compounding-related needs. The role will involve providing support to clients on technical and formulation inquiries, specific niche areas of practice, current standards of practice, and more, as well as providing direction to assist pharmacists with either introducing or expanding the practice of compounding in their business.

This is an exciting opportunity to join us as we expand our Compounding Support team and we're looking for a self-motivated, detail orientated pharmacist or technician who is determined to provide exceptional advice and support to our ever-growing client base.

Responsibilities & Duties:

Review Formulas

• Review of non-sterile and sterile formulations, as per client requests.
• Evaluate the client request to ensure safety, therapeutic efficacy, justification, appropriateness of the requested route of administration, active ingredient concentration, dosage and relevance to the clinical diagnosis as provided by the compo under.
• Verify that formulas are based on concrete scientific evidence thorough primary literature search.
• Verify physiochemical compatibility, suitability and stability of APIs and excipients in formulation.
• Verify mathematical calculations, detailed preparatory steps, ingredient sensitivities, auxiliary labels, legal parameters and more.

Respond to client inquiries

• Receive, interpret and respond to client compounding inquiries; through email or telephone communication.
• Provide technical expertise on troubleshooting day-to day-compounding issues.
• Provide support in terms of mathematical calculations, base selection, ingredient incompatibilities and suitability, formulation chemistry, API-specific monographs, and more.
• Understand and consult on recommended and proprietary technologies, devices, equipment and ready bases for pharmacy compounding.
• Provide consultation support regarding specific niche areas of practice, including but not limited to peptides, hormone restoration therapy, veterinary compounding, pain management and dermatology.
• Provide consultation support regarding current standards of practice, regulatory inquiries, facility workflow and more.
• Address escalated client inquiries, problems or situations.
• Perform scientific literature searches to support internal/external requests and compile researched literature into a standardized template for distribution to clients.

Quality System

• Stay up to date on the standards of practice and regulations governing the practice of pharmaceutical compounding; on State/Provincial and Federal levels.
• Assist in the development of SOPs, Policies & Procedures related to formulation development and approval.
• Assist in the development of SOPs, Policies & Procedures related to the practice of pharmaceutical compounding.
• Participate in continuous quality improvement of formulation database.

Additional duties may be called upon

Qualifications:

• Educational background - BS Pharmacy, PharmD or Pharmacy Technician
• Experience as a Pharmacist with 3 - 5 years of experience in the pharmaceutical compounding industry (Preferable 1 year + experience in a Compounding Pharmacy lab);
  Pharmacy Technician – At least ten (10) years of experience in the pharmaceutical compounding industry (Preferable experience in a Compounding Pharmacy…