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Senior Associate Scientist

Employer
Pfizer
Location
Sandwich
Salary
Negotiable
Closing date
10 Aug 2022

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Why Patients Need You

Pfizer's purpose is to deliver breakthroughs that change patients' lives. Research and Development is at the heart of fulfilling Pfizer's purpose as we work to translate advanced science and technologies into the therapies and vaccines that matter most. Whether you are in the discovery sciences, ensuring drug safety and efficacy or supporting clinical trials, you will apply cutting edge design and process development capabilities to accelerate and bring the best in class medicines to patients around the world.

Responsibilities

  • Use a range of analytical techniques including liquid, gas and supercritical fluid chromatography, FTIR, NMR and classical analytical techniques to provide support for release and stability testing of active pharmaceutical ingredients and drug products.
  • Excellent partnership with production, project teams and quality assurance is essential.
  • The role requires significant autonomy to achieve consistently high-quality results within agreed timeframes. Critical attention to detail, strong organisational skills, the ability to multitask and confident raising questions when faced with uncertainty .
  • Independently carry out all aspects of practical work necessary to provide right first time results to allow batch progression and build product understanding.
  • Assisting in the maintenance and renewal of laboratory instruments, systems or apparatus and in the maintenance and continuous improvement of safe and effective working practices.
  • Maintaining written records of all experimental work in accordance with current Good Manufacturing Practice, data integrity principles and according to standard operating procedures.
  • Maintaining a contemporary awareness of Pfizer Business Practices, methods, specifications, SOPs, Pharmacopeial trends, ICH Guidelines and regulatory expectations.
  • Direct supervision is not an envisaged part of the role, but it is expected that the successful candidate will show supportive leader behaviours and be a positive advocate for new technology, process improvements and initiatives designed to increase efficiency, digital work practices, quality and compliance.



Company

We aim to create a trusting, flexible workplace culture which encourages employees to achieve work life harmony, attracts talent and enables everyone to be their best working self. 

In the UK, we have around 2,400 colleagues across four locations, working within our commercial business, research and development (R&D), manufacturing and distribution operations.

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