Formulation Project Leader – Oral Dosage Forms (80-100%)

Summary

Location: Basel, Switzerland

Role Purpose

As a Formulation Project Leader in Oral Late Phase Development (NCE), you will lead and manage formulation and process development of Oral solid dosage forms from Lab-scale through scale-up and transfer to commercial scale in close collaboration with the Drug Product Subteam. Development activities include among others: formulation and process design and optimization, quality risk management as well as scientific writing of development documents and GMP documentation. For this position, special emphasis lies in bringing a keen interest and experience in applied data science and mechanistic modelling as tools to enable data-driven and efficient process development and scale-up.

About The Role

Your responsibilities will include but are not limited to:

• You have a passion for innovative formulations and technologies and bring experience in enabling formulation development.
• You understand the value and ideally bring experience of applying data-centric, computational models to guide formulation and manufacturing process development.
• You drive with scientific excellence the formulation development and manufacturing work of standard and enabling formulations and manufacturing processes of Oral Drug Products (NCE), supported by data-driven conclusions and mechanistic modelling.
• You collaborate closely with the Drug Product Sub-Team and Transfer Team members and together identify, understand and manage critical aspects concerning Drug Substance, Drug Product, Analytics, Packaging and Device.
• You maintain a regular exchange with key experts in e.g., Technology Focus Groups, Modelling & Simulation, Biopharmaceutics and further networks, and build their guidance into the development strategy and project plans.
• You author sound scientific and well-structured development documents as well as GMP documents to enable commercial manufacturing of new Drug Products.
• You contribute to the generation of CMC submission dossiers, support and answer Drug Product related questions of Health Authorities and Inspectors.
  
  

What You’ll Bring To The Role

• Advanced degree (minimum PhD) in relevant scientific field (e.g., Pharmaceutical Technology, Chemical Engineering).
• Minimum 2 years of successful industry experience in the development of pharmaceutical formulations. Focus: Formulation and process development of standard and enabling formulations for small molecules (NCE) and scale up of manufacturing processes into oral drug products for commercialization.
• Knowledge of data science and data visualization, ideally experience of applying data-centric, computational models to guide formulation and manufacturing process development.
• Interdisciplinary thinking and interest in collaboration with other functions
• Broad and profound understanding of formulation development activities.
• Good knowledge of laboratory and/or technical tools (e.g., QbD, PAT) as well as knowledge of relevant GLP, GMP regulations and policies.
• Successfully demonstrated track record of creativity and problem solving in projects.
• Effective communication, organizational, planning and negotiation skills.
• Scientific and technical writing skills
  
  

Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion: Novartis is committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams' representative of the patients and communities we serve.

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