Senior Solubilization Scientist, Wilmington DE - Fortune 500 company

Company Description

CCI Consulting is the largest independent human capital consulting firm in the Delaware Valley. We are exclusively engaged on and working with the leadership team of a growing international pharmaceutical company in northern NJ as they expand their professional staff. 

Job Description

Our client, a Fortune 500 chemical manufacturer, is seeking to hire a Senior Solubilization Scientist who will work in the specialty ingredients group. This group has been working on spray dried and melt extruded solid dispersions and associated products for over a decade and has extensive experience in process technology and formulation development.

Job Responsibilities:

• Providing deep technical expertise regarding the development of pharmaceutical products through hot melt extrusion (HME) and spray drying.
• Designing, initiating and executing studies, and interpreting the study results
• Assimilating and analyzing data into reports, posters, and journal articles.
• Presenting study results to internal and external audience
• Managing multiple projects, estimating timeline and resources, and coordinating efforts to meet timeline
• Training the technical and sales team in formulation development with emphasis in solid dispersions.
• Working closely with other R&D sites and technical support teams to solve challenging technical problems for customers.
• Conducting necessary literature search
• Maintaining lab notebooks and logbooks in accordance with company guidelines
• Comply with company procedural guidelines, laboratory procedures, and safety programs.

Qualifications

Experience/ other certification required:

• Ph.D. degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chemistry, or Chemical Engineering with 4+ years of experience in pharmaceutical formulation development, or MS degree with minimum of 8+ years of relevant experience
• Thorough understanding on formulation processes such as granulation, tableting and coating.
• Thorough knowledge on solid dispersions and analytical techniques used to characterize amorphous solid dispersions.
• Extensive hands-on experience with hot melt extrusion and / or spray drying
• Fundamental understanding on pharmaceutical product development
• Strong written and oral presentation skills
  

Experience Desired:

• Strong scientific understanding on bio pharmaceutics
• Working knowledge of Design of Experiments (DOE), Microsoft Office Suite, and statistical analysis.
• Project management experience
• Time management
• Teamwork/interpersonal skill
• Ability to work under pressure
• Willingness to supervise junior scientists

Additional Information

Compensation for this role will be commensurate with experience.  To apply with interest, please provide an updated MSWord version of your resume and salary range