Early Product Development Scientist

This is a full time, permanent position, working a 37 hour flexible week Monday - Friday. 

The purpose of this job is to support analysis of pharmaceutical Drug Product for early stage projects.

• To perform routine and non-routine analysis using traditional and modern analytical techniques like HPLC, dissolution, KF and spectroscopic analysis, as required by the Lead Scientist or customer representative.
• In line with experience support development and validation of analytical procedures used for Drug Products.
• Work with a high level of flexibility due to the nature of the service area where project demands regularly change.
• Support work activities across multiple projects.
• Ability to think logically with the ability to plan own work.
• Effectively collaborate and communicate scientific ideas to both internal and external partners.
• To prepare and approve results for tests in which they have received the appropriate training and are deemed competent.
• Support the authoring of documentation.

• Educated to degree level in a relevant scientific discipline.
• Relevant practical lab skills, as well as experience of key analytical techniques (HPLC, Dissolution, KF, Particle Size Analysis and pH).
• Analytical method development and validation skills would be beneficial.
• Understanding in conducting forced degradation studies.
• Experienced in operating in a GMP environment.
• Proven ability to work with a high level of flexibility, and ownership and understanding where to apply capacity pro-actively.
• Experience of handling Drug Products – Tablets and Parenterals.
• Ability to use literature databases.
• Good collaboration skills.
• Excellent analytical thinking and problem-solving skills, with a focus on detail.

Benefits

At Eurofins we are growing, innovating and always learning. We celebrate the achievements of our employees through annual long service awards, recognise our colleagues special life events, and we are committed to charitable causes through global fundraising activities.

As a Eurofins employee you will benefit from:

• Life Assurance (4 times annual salary)
• Enhanced Maternity, Paternity and Adoption Pay Scheme 
• Company Pension Plan
• Employee Assistance Programme – 24/7 confidential support.
• Free car parking
• Worldwide career opportunities
• Everyone who joins our team also gets access to Perkbox, allowing you to save money all year round. Whether its supermarket savings or days out, the daily coffee or a summer holiday – there’s something to suit everyone’s lifestyle.

What Happens Next
Our people are the backbone of what we do, so it's incredibly important we find the right individuals to join us. As a potential new recruit you'll be invited to meet the team in the form of an assessment centre or a staged interview process dependent on the role and it's requirements, this will give you the opportunity to see what working for Eurofins is really like and enable us to get you know your key skills and strengths. 
 
Your data 
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Closing Date
We reserve the right to close or extend this position depending on application numbers. Therefore we would urge candidates to submit an application as early as possible.
 
Due to the high volume of applications we receive please be aware that if you do not receive a response within 4 weeks of the vacancy expiry date unfortunately, on this occasion your application has been unsuccessful. 

We support your development! Do you feel you don’t match 100% of the requirements? Don’t hesitate to apply anyway! Eurofins companies are committed to supporting your career development.

We embrace diversity! Eurofins network of companies believe in strength and innovation through diversity, being an Equal Opportunity Employer. We prohibit discrimination against employees or applications based on gender identity and/or expression, race, nationality, age, religion, sexual orientation, disability, and everything else that makes employees of Eurofins companies unique.

Sustainability matters to us!  We are well on our way to achieving our objective of carbon neutrality by 2025, through a combination of emission reduction and compensation initiatives. We encourage our laboratory leaders to make sustainable changes at their local level, and in addition to their initiatives we also count on our dedicated carbon reduction team to help us to achieve this goal!

Find out more in our career page: https://careers.eurofins.com/