Eurofins Scientific is an international life sciences company, providing a unique range of analytical testing services to clients across multiple industries, to make life and our environment safer, healthier and more sustainable. From the food you eat, to the water you drink, to the medicines you rely on, Eurofins works with the biggest companies in the world to ensure the products they supply are safe, their ingredients are authentic and labelling is accurate. Eurofins believes it is a global leader in food, environmental, pharmaceutical and cosmetics products testing and in agroscience CRO services. It is also one of the global independent market leaders in certain testing and laboratory services for genomics, discovery pharmacology, forensics, CDMO, advanced material sciences and in the support of clinical studies.

In over just 30 years, Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes, France to over 58,000 staff across a network of more than 1000 independent companies in over 54 countries and operating more than 900 laboratories. Eurofins offers a portfolio of over 200,000 analytical methods to evaluate the safety, identity, composition, authenticity, origin, traceability and purity of biological substances and products, as well as providing innovative clinical diagnostic testing services, as one of the leading global emerging players in specialised clinical diagnostics testing.

In 2021, Eurofins generated total revenues of EUR € 6.7 billion, and has been among the best performing stocks in Europe over the past 20 years.

Our innovative Professional Scientific Services (PSS) programme engages full-time scientists, technicians and technical support personnel managed by Eurofins directly at the client facility, to provide long term service needs while maintaining the same services, expertise and cGMP compliance available at the Eurofins facility. This multi award-winning programme offers excellent career opportunities for people who have a proven track record in combining excellent technical ability, with first class interpersonal and communication skills.

We are currently recruiting for enthusiastic and innovative research scientist in the Design, Development and Characterization of Pharmaceutical dosage forms.  This is a new and exciting opportunity based at our client’s facility, a top tier Pharmaceutical company in Sandwich, Kent, UK.  The opportunity is for either a a graduate or PhD level scientist with 1 to 2 year’s relevant industrial experience.  We are looking for employees to support dissolution and solubility testing to aid formulation development and biopharmaceutical characterisation.

Job responsibilities may include but will not be exclusive to the following and will be based on the applicants’ experience and clients’ requirements:

• Providing physical chemistry support utilizing chemical characterization techniques solubility, intrinsic dissolution rates and knowledge of drug pKa, rates of degradation, equilibria and kinetics, salt and polymorph properties, salt selection.
• Design and undertake high quality scientific experimentation to further the formulation and process development of dosage forms for novel drug candidates.
• Utilize basic physical chemistry and analytical techniques for example Powder X-ray Diffraction (PXRD) and High-Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC).  Interpret scientific data to derive clear conclusions and provide direction for future work.
• To design, conduct and interpret biorelevant dissolution studies (especially TIM1 experiments) to assess dosage form performance. Interpret and explain experimental data in the context of formulation, dissolution, and pharmacokinetics.
• With appropriate support interpret scientific data to derive clear conclusions and provide direction for future work and influence the development of quality drug products.
• To communicate effectively to the project team and present data at team meetings
• To maintain high quality documentation of all activities in electronic notebooks, reports as required.
• Maintain awareness of technical advances in physical chemistry to develop innovative and novel solutions with sound scientific rationale.

• Degree in Pharmaceutical sciences, pharmacy or chemistry or similar with 1 to 2 years’ relevant industrial experience minimum ideally involving bio-relevant dissolution testing (e.g. TIM-1). 
• Practical work experience in an operational R&D role in pharmaceutical/drug delivery or allied industries with pre-formulation, formulation of pharmaceutical dosage forms. Basic knowledge of drug product development is essential.
• Experience of dissolution, PXRD and HPLC analysis is highly desirable. Good understanding of physicochemical properties such as pKa, logP, Ksp and pHmax is required.
• Good awareness/understanding of the requirements for working in a GCP and/or GMP environment, knowledge of drug development and formulation is essential.

Benefits

At Eurofins we are growing, innovating and always learning. We celebrate the achievements of our employees through annual long service awards, recognise our colleagues special life events, and we are committed to charitable causes through global fundraising activities.

As a Eurofins employee you will benefit from:

• Life Assurance (4 times annual salary)
• Company Pension Plan
• Employee Assistance Programme – 24/7 confidential support.
• Free car parking
• Worldwide career opportunities
• Refer a friend scheme
• Everyone who joins our team also gets access to Perkbox, allowing you to save money all year round. Whether its supermarket savings or days out, the daily coffee or a summer holiday – there’s something to suit everyone’s lifestyle.

What Happens Next

Our people are the backbone of what we do, so it's incredibly important we find the right individuals to join us. As a potential new recruit you'll be invited to meet the team to give you the opportunity to see what working for Eurofins is really like and enable us to get you know your key skills and strengths. 
 
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Due to the high volume of applications we receive please be aware that if you do not receive a response within 4 weeks of the vacancy expiry date unfortunately, on this occasion your application has been unsuccessful.