About us

Ardena is a leading Contract Development and Manufacturing Organization (CDMO) for the pharmaceutical industry. We help pharmaceutical companies, from small Biotech to large Pharma companies, bring their products to market through clinical trials. We offer a comprehensive and integrated portfolio of drug development services. We strongly believe that our multidisciplinary approach can accelerate the drug development and approval process. By seamlessly integrating our services, we’re able to better mitigate development risks and ultimately reduce time-to clinic.

Ardena is a rapidly growing internationally oriented organization with a dedicated team of more than 750 professionals operating from 6 sites in Belgium, the Netherlands, Sweden, Spain and the United States. Ardena has an open and transparent culture: team spirit, an open mentality and ownership are important values in our company.

In recent years, Ardena has made a number of successful business acquisitions. These companies are complementary to each other and together form the One Ardena Group. We have achieved substantial growth every year for the past three years and our ambition is to continue this growth in the coming years. Do you want to work in a challenging contract development and manufacturing organization, where experts come together to create innovative medicines for unmet medical needs? Would you like to further develop Ardena by becoming our next colleague? Then we may have the perfect career move for you.

The Nanomedicines Business Unit in Oss specializes in chemical process and analytical method development, and cGMP manufacture of nanomedicines.

For the Ardena Nanomedicines Business Unit based in Oss we are looking for a

Senior Scientist – Group Lead Process R&D Nanomedicines (FT)

to strengthen our Process R&D and Manufacturing Nanomedicines department.

ABOUT THE ROLE

You will lead a team of Process R&D scientists during the development of manufacturing processes for nanomedicines. This entails, in close collaboration with our clients, the development of scalable, robust, and GMP-compliant procedures for the preparation of nanomedicines. You will form the core project team together with the Project Manager, Analytical Lead and Quality Assurance.

YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• You will be line manager to a team of Process R&D Nanomedicine scientists
• Compliance to (company) regulations, procedures and (inter)national standards with regards to safety, product quality, order and tidiness

• You will design and coordinate lab experiments, for the development and scale up of processes towards (GMP) manufacturing of nanomedicines
• You will be involved in the preparation and execution of (GMP) manufacturing of nanomedicines, in close collaboration with colleagues from Production
• You will maintain customer contact to update on the status and progress of projects, either verbally or in writing
• Working closely with colleagues from Project Management, Production, Analytical Sciences and Quality Assurance

• You take up responsibility to run a smooth lab e.g. the management of your teams lab space, equipment and materials
• You will keep yourself up to date with the latest (nanomedicine) developments and insights
• You will report to the Director Process R&D and Manufacturing

YOUR PROFILE LOOKS LIKE/ RESEMBLES

• You have a PhD degree in chemistry, organic life sciences or equivalent and extensive knowledge of (the preparation of) nanoparticles/nanomedicines
• You have experience in the pharmaceutical industry, specialized in process development towards cGMP manufacturing
• Leadership experience is an added value
• You feel comfortable in a dynamic and changing environment
• You like to learn and develop yourself and your team
• You have good coaching skills
• You are flexible and pragmatic, a problem solver, pro-active, a team player and able to work under pressure
• You have an analytical mindset, and you are stress resistant
• You have good communication skills and are fluent in both Dutch & English (written as well as spoken)

WHAT WE OFFER

• A true learning environment where you will have the ability to grow your skills
• A rapidly developing and growing international company with an attractive services, product and customer portfolio
• A dynamic working environment with nice colleagues
• Open straightforward but also caring culture
• We are true to our values
• An attractive remuneration package
• Flexible working hours
• 30 days holiday a year
• Free fruit & Fitness possibilities
• An office that is easy to reach by public transport.