Associate Scientist - Formulation Development

Company Description

Eurofins CDMO is a leading international Contract Development and Manufacturing Organization (CDMO) based in Europe. Our company focuses on drug product development and manufacturing for chemical/biological entities and drug substance development and manufacturing for biological entities. We support small and major biopharmaceutical companies in an innovative way to help them achieving their (pre)clinical milestones timely. Our facilities are perfectly designed for clinical and/or small scale commercial batches either for non-sterile or sterile dosage forms. With approximatively 350 staff, we operate out of 8 sites in France, Belgium and Italy.

Job Description

• You will join a dynamic young team and report to the formulation development manager.
• You will support the development of new drug delivery formulations (drug products) for different applications in the medical field in R&D environment, under the guidance of senior scientists.
• You will be working on innovative solid and/or liquid formulations for both new biological molecules and new small molecules.
• You will execute different kind of pharmaceutical processes for both liquid and solid drug product (DP) development & manufacturing. Examples are:
  • Solutions, suspensions, emulsions, SEDDS,…
  • Powders, tableting, capsule manufacturing, film-coating, spray-drying, lyophilization, wet granulation, dry granulation,…
• You will be involved in screening of formulation compositions, process development and optimization, and productions for stability studies.
• You will develop and execute DP characterization methods to evaluate the profile and stability of the different drug products.
• The function consists of carrying out experimental work in a high-tech environment together with data interpretation and reporting of the performed experiments.
• The function includes also support of clinical production in a GMP environment after a training period. Activities include: material dispensing, execution of the DP manufacturing processes, packaging, equipment installation and cleaning, product samplings, and completion of batch records.

Qualifications

• You have a Bachelor’s degree with scientific orientation (Pharmaceutical and biological lab technology, chemistry, biochemistry, biotechnology …) or equivalent by experience.
• You have a strong interest in drug research and development and the associated production and characterization technologies.
• You work accurately, you are technically minded and able to work independently after training in the matter entrusted to you.
• Hands-on experience in a pharmaceutical R&D or production environment is an asset.
• You are flexible.
• You have experience with software such as Word, Excel and Powerpoint.
• You can communicate in Dutch and English (both written and orally)

Additional Information

• Day to day variety in projects and analyses;
• A wide range of new, state of the art, analytical techniques for you to master;
• Personal development through learning on the job from experienced team members and additional external trainings;
• A position with responsibility within a young and dynamic international pharmaceutical company, with room to grow;
• A market oriented compensation, including laptop, lunch vouchers, commuting fee, hospitalization insurance, pension fund;
• 32 holidays, with additional loyalty days;
• Regular team activities organized by our EuroFun team.