Vice President, Research & Development

The Vice President, Research & Development leads Quva Pharma’s enterprise product development strategy for ready-to-administer and compounded medications. This leader is accountable for translating hospital and health-system needs, medication shortages, portfolio opportunities, and acquired product capabilities into a prioritized, technically feasible, compliant, and commercially viable development pipeline. The role provides executive oversight from clinical and regulatory assessment through formulation, process development, analytical readiness, stability, validation, technology transfer, launch, and lifecycle improvement across Quva’s 503B manufacturing network.

Ideally located in Sugar Land, Texas.  If remote, will require around 50% travel.

What the Vice President, R&D does each day:

Develops and executes the enterprise R&D and product development strategy in alignment with Quva’s growth, quality, supply continuity, and customer priorities

Owns portfolio governance and prioritization for new products, acquired product transfers, reformulations, line extensions, shortage-response opportunities, and lifecycle improvements

Leads the integration and phased development of selected products added through strategic portfolio acquisitions, including clinical, technical, regulatory, supply, validation, and launch readiness activities

Directs Quva’s stage-gated new product development process from research and clinical fit assessment through formulation, pilot development, validation, stability, change control, and commercial launch

Ensures product concepts are evaluated for patient and clinical need, medication-safety impact, regulatory pathway, intellectual property or commercial-copy considerations, manufacturability, capacity, sourcing, quality risk, and financial viability

Provides scientific and clinical leadership for formulation development, process characterization, scale-up, analytical method readiness, component qualification, stability strategy, and technology transfer

Partners with Quality, Pharmacy Services, Technical Operations, Manufacturing, Engineering, Supply Chain, Commercial Operations, Customer Service, and Finance to establish clear ownership, timelines, risks, and launch criteria

Establishes portfolio and program metrics, executive reporting, resource plans, and decision forums to improve speed, predictability, accountability, and return on development investment

Ensures development documentation is complete, scientifically sound, inspection-ready, and compliant with applicable FDA requirements, cGMP expectations, state pharmacy requirements, internal procedures, and data-integrity standards

Provides executive oversight for Product Development Reports, formulations, master batch records, specifications, stability protocols and reports, validation assessments, change controls, and supporting technical documentation

Builds, develops, and leads a high-performing multidisciplinary R&D organization; clarifies roles, strengthens technical capabilities, and creates succession and development plans

Represents R&D in executive planning and customer or partner discussions, communicates portfolio decisions and risks clearly

Other duties as assigned

Our successful Vice President R&D has / is:

Sense of urgency, accountability, and resourcefulness (e.g., work in changing environment)
Self-starter, independent learner

Communication:
Promotes active listening with team members;
Contributes appropriately to conversations;
Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to work effectively with other departments within the organization and with people at all levels of the organization

Problem Solving:
Understands how various issues affect each other and the outcome of projects;
Improv…