Principal Scientist – Pharma Full-time

Principal Scientist – Pharma

At Thermo Fisher Scientific, you'll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life – enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while taking science a step beyond through research, development and delivery of life-changing therapies. With clinical trials conducted in 100+ countries and ongoing development of novel frameworks for clinical research through our PPD clinical research portfolio, our work spans laboratory, digital and decentralized clinical trial services. Your determination to deliver quality and accuracy will improve health outcomes that people and communities depend on – now and in the future.

Our PPD® Laboratory Services team has a direct impact on improving patient health through the expertise of scientists, industry thought-leaders and therapeutic guides. As the world leader in serving science, our laboratory professionals bring their commitment to accuracy and quality to deliver groundbreaking innovations.

Our GMP Lab in Athlone conducts testing for clinical programs and marketed products across all phases of drug development and this role is based in our Pharma lab.

Discover Impactful Work:

The role of Principal Scientist – Pharma is to oversee the technical aspects and laboratory conduct of a significant service offering, technical area, or client program. Provide focused technical expertise as a key scientific resource for a broad array of instrument applications including but not limited to HPLC, GC, GCMS, ICPMS, KF, FTIR, dissolution. Provide key technical guidance and assistance to quickly and efficiently resolve complex technical issues, for both internal support and client needs. Act as the technical project leader or subject matter expert for multiple projects or programs, interact with clients to provide technical project updates, review and evaluate data, writes reports and protocols, and provides input on regulatory compliance. In addition, participates in the evaluation and implementation of new technologies ensuring the laboratory stays current in technologies required to best serve PPD clients and to meet business needs or explore new business growth opportunities.

A Day in the Life:

• Provides assistance in the evaluation and implementation of new technologies or techniques to help move the business forward.
• Implements effective improvements in systems, processes and procedures increasing productivity, quality and technical expertise in the laboratory.
• Shares subject matter expertise with colleagues at internal PPD training events.
• Serves as a technical resource for PPD management in the assessment of client audit recommendations and SOP review.
• Serves as subject matter expert in discussions with clients and internal PPD staff to resolve scientific issues, study design and project technical requirements.
• Leads project teams conducting complex analytical studies, providing technical project management including study planning, coordination of resources, data evaluation, and client communication.

Keys to Success:

Education & Experience:

• Educated to a bachelor's degree level in a relevant Scientific area, ie chemistry, biochemistry
• 12+ years' relevant industry experience within a GMP laboratory

In some cases an equivalency, consisting of a combination of appropriate education, training and/or directly related experience, will be considered sufficient for an individual to meet the requirements of the role.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities:

• In-depth technical and industry knowledge in positions of technical leadership, and highly respected among peers for technical expertise.
• Communication / organization skills necessary to drive the implementation of technological innovation for an area or department.
• Active participant in industry discussion groups / technology conferences and presenting at industry events and conferences.
• Knowledge of regulatory agency audits from a technological standpoint and perspective.
• Proven ability to implement process improvement and technological advancement at the group or department level.
• Proven experience with several of the Pharma department's key testing areas such as oligonucleotides, extractables and leachables, mass spectrometry, medical device/functionality testing, small molecule core testing, physical, chemical characterization testing.

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