Summary

Millions! Novartis made a decision to pursue early discovery research internally to allow us to quickly translate the most impactful discoveries into therapeutics for millions of patients. The job purpose is to lead and manage all assigned project/network activities and apply scientific/technical expertise to address complex R&D issues for the preparation and timely delivery of drug products (DP), processes and procedures; coach team members, participate in teams and contribute to overall Technical Research and Development strategies and goals.

To develop our growing pipeline of products we are looking for experienced professionals in the area of pharmaceutical development. In this challenging position, you will play a key role in the development of oral solid and liquid dosage forms (including poorly soluble compounds).

• To ensure high quality products are developed applying risk analysis and QbD methodologies.
• To work in multidisciplinary and international project teams and represent Pharmaceutical Development in external collaborations, resulting in a wide range of scientific and strategic tasks.
• To develop and achieve robust formulations and processes through optimization, scale-up and validation work and provision of the re-quired documentation to allow worldwide registration.
• To work in a GMP-role covering manufacturing, documentation, data management and quality management aspects
• To plan, supervise and report internal and external technical development campaigns as well as clinical supply campaigns.
• To plan, supervise and to report internal and external technical transfer campaigns between Development sites and to production sites (internal and 3rd parties).
• The development of new technologies and supervision of scientific projects are further options within this position.