Job Title: Senior Principal Scientist - Analytical Science Department: Pharmaceutical Development Line Manager: Team Director

Salary: Negotiable Location: South Manchester (occasional travel will be required to attend client meetings, CRO visits and business development events across the UK and potentially abroad. Occasional overnight stays will be required).

SRG are working exclusively with a rapidly growing pharmaceutical development company that's looking to expand and take on a new Senior Principal Scientist in Analytical Development department.

Job purpose: The primary purpose of this role is to ensure excellence in company's analytical science provision. You have responsibility for driving the analytical science and associated regulatory components of client projects and providing mentoring and coaching to more junior analytical staff. You keep up to date with the latest technical advances in analytical science and, where appropriate, introduce those technologies into the business.

If successful, you will be expected to support the growth of the business by providing technical consultancy and advice to the company's clients, scientific guidance to internal staff and support to business development activities. Typical responsibilities/accountabilities:

• Bring analytical expertise to guide the development of fit for purpose analytical methods for a range of simple and complex drug products, and trouble shoot any method development issues.
• Understand and articulate global regulatory requirements for a CMC submission and design the product strategy accordingly.
• Ensure the company has the right analytical expertise and capability to support existing and new client programmes, including the introduction of new analytical technologies as appropriate
• Provide hands on laboratory trouble shooting for complex analytical challenges when required.
• Act as pharmaceutical development project leader / manager for some client projects
• Manage and review CRO activities on behalf of clients
• Management of the financial and contractual aspects of projects with clients, such as costing proposals and invoicing.
• Act as a key point of contact for the company's global client base.
• Participate and present at network events, conferences

Education, Qualifications, Experience, Skills and Capabilities:

• Educated to PhD and greater than 5 years' experience in the pharmaceutical sciences and drug development or bachelor's degree and greater than 10 years' experience in the pharmaceutical sciences and drug development
• Experience of progressing the analytical components of various drug projects through different development phases (discovery to launch) across global markets
• Wide ranging experience of interactions with global regulatory authorities
• Good understanding of ICH quality guidelines and global CMC regulatory requirements

If you would like to apply for this position, please use the link provided. Alternatively, please email a copy of your CV to Selby at Selby. For more information regarding this position or any others, please call Selby on (phone number removed).

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