Job Description

Description :

Proud to be at the forefront of our industry since 1983, Pharmascience is a leader in generic medicines. We\xe2\x80\x99re a Canadian company with global reach that has never lost sight of the human touch. Pharmascience, headquartered in Montreal, was named one of the top 300 employers in 2021. Our 1,400 employees are committed to the quality of our products, research and development, and serving our communities. Join the team!

Benefits of working at Pharmascience

• Competitive salaries on experience
• In-house referral program up to $3000
• Yearly bonus program based on team and individual performance
• Holidays and floater days
• Collective insurance & access to free telemedecine
• Pension plan

Pharmascience is presently looking for a Scientific Leader in formulation development for its R&D, Candiac site. The selected candidate will develop oral dosage forms. The Scientific Leader will develop robust, scalable, and stable formulations from lab scale to commercial batch size in accordance with regulatory requirements. He/she will be involved in building development plans and strategy.

Tasks and responsibilities :

• Prepares high level development plans for new products
• Evaluates pharmaceutical development aspects to determine commercial batch sizes and cost of goods
• Understands and applies regulatory guidelines for product development, submissions and to respond to deficiency letters
• Uses scaleup principles to increase batch sizes of developed prototypes to pilot and commercial scales
• Responsible for the development of oral solid dosage forms or other specialized dosage forms
• Understands and evaluates the innovator product, literature, IP landscape, formulation and process amongst other aspects to develop the product
• Authors/prepares all documents as per all effective procedures
• Manufactures development lots as per GLP (good lab practices) and sets up equipment as needed
• Interacts with all stakeholders as needed during development and execution of tasks
• Creates as needed, review and approve milestone batch records as per effective procedures
• Assists and monitors manufacturing of milestone batches
• Participate in regulatory, internal and client audits as an SME
• Follows all relevant safety and working procedures
• Tabulates, analyses, and interprets data
• Act as a delegate for management as required
• Creates new processes that increase team efficiency
• Supports additional activities as needed

Skills, knowledge and abilities :

The candidate should have experience in development of solid oral dosage forms and be well versed with GLP and GMP principles. The candidate should be capable of proposing strategies for product development. The candidate should have expertise of working principles of manufacturing equipment and technology, experience with scaleup principles and regulatory guidelines as well as defining and applying best practices in pharmaceutical development and manufacturing. The candidate will be considered for performance-based advancement assessed on criteria including leadership, PMS values and knowledge-based competency.

Education and experience :

The candidate should possess PhD or post-graduation in Pharmacy or Chemistry with 10+ years of industrial experience in development of pharmaceutical dosage forms.

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