About us

Ardena is a leading contract development organization for the pharmaceutical industry. We assist pharmaceutical companies, from virtual biotech to big pharma, in bringing their valued molecule(s) to the clinic and market. We provide a comprehensive and integrated portfolio of drug substance and drug product development, manufacturing, logistics and bioanalytical services.

Ardena is a rapidly growing international orientated organization with a dedicated team of 700 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 mindset and ownership are important values in our company.

We are a dynamic drug developer offering exciting career opportunities to skilled and motivated people who want to work in a fast-growing market within the global pharmaceutical industry. Do you want to work in a challenging contract research and development environment, where experts come together to develop innovative drugs for unmet medical needs? Do you want to further develop Ardena and grow with us by becoming our next colleague? Then we might have the right opportunity for you.

For the Ardena Business Unit Drug Product Development and Manufacturing (DDM) based in Ghent (Belgium), we are looking for a

FORMULATION SCIENTIST

 

WHAT YOU WILL WORK ON

Ardena Gent guides a worldwide portfolio of customers through the processes of formulation and analytical development and the manufacturing and labeling of early-phase clinical materials according to GMP appropriate standards.

As a Formulation Scientist, you are the leading person from the Galenic Team responsible for drug product development projects of new chemical entities in support of (pre)clinical studies and stability studies. The Formulation Scientist is expected to lead multiple projects by independently preparing and executing the formulation development work.

YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Providing technical expertise/scientific input on formulation development strategies
• Preparation and practical execution of formulation development projects
• Providing scientific expertise and formulation insights to Core Teams meetings
• Assisting to client meetings to present scientific data in a clear manner
• Writing scientific reports for clients, e.g. formulation development reports
• Drafting work instructions for the Formulation Associate Scientists to ensure that work is performed efficiently and in a scientifically sound manner
• Monitoring experiments (e.g. process development, implementation of new formulation techniques) and ensuring complex data are interpreted in a scientifically correct way
• Identifying potential stability and performance issues with prototype formulations
• Streamlining the activities associated with a wide variety of formulation technologies to shorten Formulation Lab turnaround times and improve the quality of formulations being delivered
• Supporting the scale-up of developed formulations and bringing them to GMP manufacturing

YOUR PROFILE LOOKS LIKE/ RESEMBLES

• Msc. or PhD in the field of Pharmaceutical Sciences; with hands-on experience in one or more of the following fields: (wet) milling technology, spray drying, fluid bed granulation/coating, emulsions, tabletting/encapsulation and/or injectable formulations (small or large molecules)

• Excellent oral (presentations) and written (reporting) skills in English

• Flexibility to work in both in R&D and under GMP environment and/or to perform tech-transfer from R&D to GMP

• Self-motivated and able to adapt to changing environment with ease

• Work independently or as part of a team, able to stimulate other co-workers

• Able to deliver results within limited time and budget; solution-oriented

WHAT WE OFFER

• Opportunity to make impact on multiple projects with a variety in formulations and technologies

• Ability to further grow your formulation and project management skills while working within multidisciplinary teams

• A true learning environment where you will have the ability to grow your skills

• A rapidly international developing and growing company with an interesting 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

• 32 days holiday a year

If you like to have more information about the role, please do not hesitate to contact Stijn Maertens, email: HR@ardena.com, Tel: +32 9 267 65 00

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