Formulation Scientist​/Formulation Pharmacist

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Reporting to: R&D Formulation Manager

Job Purpose: Responsible for developing intellectual property for the formulation and manufacturing processes of new and existing products. To sustain a robust and commercially sound product pipeline, while ensuring that existing products comply with statutory requirements

Key Outputs:

• Design and present feasible, systematic, science- and risk-based approaches to the development of formulations and manufacturing processes of pharmaceutical products.
• Conduct pre-formulation, formulation development and process development laboratory trials/experiments in the required timelines.
• Conduct and/or supervise the manufacture of pilot-scale batches.
• Assist in scale-up and technology transfer of products and processes to production plants.
• To prepare, review and take responsibility for required documentation (laboratory trial notebooks, pilot batch records, protocols, reports and standard operating procedures).
• Assist in quality and regulatory impact assessments, root cause investigations, and the provision of suitable corrective actions related to formulations and manufacturing processes of products when challenges are identified during routine commercial manufacture.
• Recommend short-term solutions (amendments) to formulations and manufacturing processes and understand the impact of these amendments to the quality, safety and efficacy of the product.
• To evaluate the potential impact of alternate sources of raw and packaging materials to the quality of finished pharmaceutical products.
• Perform finished product releases efficiently to ensure speed to market, on an ad-hoc basis, if required (Pharmacist only).
• The control of schedule 5 and 6 substances and products on the site (balancing of registers, requests for permits, destruction of waste, etc) (Pharmacist only).