Sr. Scientist- Drug Product Design & Development, PhRD

Why Patients Need You

Pfizer's purpose is to deliver breakthroughs that change patients' lives. Research and Development is at the heart of fulfilling Pfizer's purpose as we work to translate advanced science and technologies into the therapies and vaccines that matter most. Whether you are in the discovery sciences, ensuring drug safety and efficacy or supporting clinical trials, you will apply cutting edge design and process development capabilities to accelerate and bring the best in class medicines to patients around the world.

What You Will Achieve

As a Senior Scientist, you will be at the center of our operations and you'll find that everything we do, every day, is in line with an unwavering commitment to quality. You will be part of the Pharmaceutical Research and Development team and will be responsible for performing analytical particle characterization of candidate formulations by using various optical and spectroscopic characterization techniques. In addition, you will be responsible for identifying extrinsic and intrinsic particle matter using various forensic techniques. You will be performing formulation and process development activities specifically for biotherapeutic products from pre-clinical and Ph I clinical trials through manufacturing process performance qualification, license application, and commercialization.

You will be recognized as a technical expert and a scientific contributor. With your deep knowledge of the discipline, your decisions will impact the success of projects. You will be a critical member of our team developing formulations that ensure the stability of biological molecules and vaccines. You will be using your scientific judgment to adapt standard methods and techniques by applying prior work experience. You will be forecasting and planning resource requirements for your project team. Your creativity in developing novel processes and new ideas will be used frequently. You will undertake mentoring activities to guide team members.

It is your innovative scientific temperament that will help in making Pfizer ready to achieve new milestones and help patients across the globe.

How You Will Achieve It

• Contribute and influence at the project team level.
  
• Interface with, provide formulation knowledge and expertise, and communicate the interpretation and implication of results to drug discovery teams and Pharmaceutical Science project teams.
  
• Conduct solid state physical and chemical characterization of small molecules of pharmaceutical relevance, including particle characterization and solid state characterization.
  
• Lead and plan formulation/process development assignments and activities to meet established project goals and timelines.
  
• Maintain an awareness of and contribute to current scientific literature.
  

Qualifications

Must-Have

• Bachelor's Degree
  
• 9+ years of experience
  
• Experience conducting solid state physical and chemical characterization of small molecules of pharmaceutical relevance, including particle characterization and solid state characterization
  
• Experience in one or more of the areas, including Formulation Development, Materials Science, Biopharmaceutics, Physical Chemistry
  
• Strong interest and motivation to learn new concepts is expected
  
• Good organizational skills, the ability to work independently, and excellent oral and written communication skills
  
• Strong written and oral communication skills and the use of MS Office
  

Nice-to-Have

• Master's degree with 7+ years of relevant experience or PHD experience with 0-4 years of relevant experience
  
• Experience with using contemporary computational approaches to predict the properties and performance of pharmaceutical materials
  

Additional information :

• Eligible for employee referral
• Work Location: On- premise
• Last Day to Apply: December 7, 2022

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Relocation assistance may be available based on business needs and/or eligibility.

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