Head of Analytical Development

Job Description:

If your professional experience and interest is founded on how to make things smarter, and you at the same time know how to make a team of highly skilled Scientists shine, we have just the right job ready for you. You will get the opportunity to lead and strategically strengthen the area of analytical development, in the Ferring CMC organisation. Your ideas and results will impact the business of a global pharma company.

At Ferring you will be part of a true R&D organisation. Here you can unleash your skills in a science driven environment surrounded by state-of-the-art equipment, and you can share your ideas with gifted and dedicated scientists and specialists from all over the world.

Analytical development and positive people management of skilled scientists

As our new Head of Analytical Development, you will display your skills in analytical development on one hand, and as positive people manager on the other. Your focus will be to strategically strengthen the area of analytical method development, validation, chemical characterisation, stability and controls with a focus on controlled release Drug Products. You will bring your own extensive knowledge, and you will engage with internal stakeholders globally as well as your team to find just the right way forward for Ferring. As people manager your focus is to keep a well-functioning team of scientists happy and in on-going development as individuals and as a team. Your primary tasks will be to:

• Lead, motivate and develop your team – via daily coaching, problem solving, individual objectives and performance reviews
• Ensure definition and deliverance of robust analytical packages to support drug development projects
• Build a thorough understanding of Ferring’s value chain and global organization
• Build and maintain constructive relations to a wide number of stakeholders in the global organization
• Build external network to relevant experts and across the scientific community
• You will work with both non-GMP and GMP related tasks.

Your workplace is the Ferring Controlled Therapeutics site in East Kilbride. However, your line manager and the extended Product Development and Drug Delivery team are based on Copenhagen, Denmark. 15-20 travel days per year to meet colleagues and external partners (e.g. CROs) can therefore be expected.

Leadership profile with 15+ years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry

We are looking for a genuine enabler that can drive things forward without having a detailed manual in place. If you are the one, you find great satisfaction in helping other people to be their very best. You have the scientific knowledge it takes to engage with a team of experienced Scientists but are not necessarily a scientific specialist yourself. Instead, your professional interest is driven by motivating people and making things better. As part of this, you can see the full picture, and break it down into a clear strategy and plan for success. Related to this, you are good at explaining “why, how, who and when”, and you can balance when to uphold a decision and when to seek the good compromise.

Additionally, your CV comprises:

• A degree in chemistry, pharmacy or equivalent
• 15+ years of experience with delivering CMC projects in the pharmaceutical industry
• Technical understanding of drug product analytical development, including method development and validation, stability and controls.
• Sound knowledge of ICH and other regulatory guidelines including quality by design
• Ideally experience with both large and small molecules and expertise within polymer chemistry
• Drug product development project management
• Experience of all phases of analytical development and understanding of global regulatory requirements for CMC to ensure high quality regulatory submissions.
• Leadership experience of teams consisting of senior scientists and scientists to drive decision making within cross functional teams.
• Fluency in English, written and spoken

Your new team

Your teams’ responsibility covers analytical method development and characterisation of proteins and peptides as well as small molecules and other modalities within the CMC area. The responsibility ranges from candidate drug selection to Phase 3 and transfer to commercial manufacturing with a focus on controlled release dosage forms. You will head 11 highly skilled Scientists that plan, coordinate, lead and evaluate analytical development and characterisation work performed in our internal laboratories and at different CROs.

Location:Ferring Controlled Therapeutics UK