Senior Solubilization Scientist, Wilmington DE - Fortune 500 company

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. 

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.

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

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