Pharmaceutical Analyst

  • Full-time

Company Description

Eurofins is an international network of independent life sciences companies, 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 laboratories work with the biggest companies in the world to ensure the products they supply are safe, their ingredients are authentic, and labelling is accurate.

The Eurofins network is dedicated to delivering testing services that contribute to the health and safety of society and the planet, and to its corporate responsibility to protect the environment and ensure diversity, equity, and inclusion across its companies around the world.

Eurofins PSS Insourcing Solutions® is a global, award-winning insourcing solution. We place our skilled team directly at the client site, managing operations seamlessly and eliminating complexities. We ensure a strategic, long-term service commitment that delivers value directly at the client’ site, utilising their facilities, equipment, and methodologies, while maintaining the same service, expertise, and cGMP compliance available at the Eurofins facility. If you're an employee seeking an exceptional career journey, Eurofins PSS Insourcing Solutions® is your gateway to a future where innovation, collaboration, and success converge. Join us in a world where excellence knows no boundaries!

We’re proud to be an armed forces-friendly place to work and welcome applications from reservists, armed forces veterans (including the wounded, injured and sick), as well as cadet instructors, and military spouses and partners.

If you want to continue to help make our world a safer and healthier place, then apply for the role below and become a part of the extraordinary Eurofins network

Job Description

Unfortunately, we are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role.

This is a permanent full time position, working a 35 hour week, 7 hours per day flexibly between 7am & 7 pm on 5/7 days as per business needs.  

As a Pharmaceutical Analyst you will perform analysis of pharmaceutical raw materials, drug substance, and finished product and produce accurate results within an acceptable timeframe.

Job Responsibilities that you be covering:

  • You will perform routine and non-routine analysis using both traditional and modern analytical techniques, including HPLC, Dissolution, and Karl Fischer determination, ensuring all work is completed within a GMP framework and in line with client requirements.
  • You will review analytical data to confirm compliance with GMP standards, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and adherence to approved methods and procedures.
  • You will initiate, investigate, and follow up on OOS results and action limits in accordance with client procedures, ensuring timely escalation and appropriate documentation.
  • You will document all data in line with current client policies and procedures, maintaining accurate, traceable, and compliant laboratory records.
  • You will monitor and report productivity through agreed performance metrics, including test volumes, cycle times, laboratory or product related issues, and hours worked per project.
  • You will prepare and approve analytical results for tests in which you are trained and deemed competent, ensuring data integrity and adherence to all regulatory and client expectations.

Qualifications

  • What skills, qualifications and experiences you will hold as an Pharmaceutical Analyst:

  • To succeed in this role, you will have a degree in Chemistry or a related discipline, with a strong fundamental knowledge of pharmaceuticals and modern analytical techniques.
  • You will have relevant experience working in a pharmaceutical testing laboratory, preferably with exposure to solid dose products, and a thorough understanding of GMP requirements.
  • You will be experienced and competent in using both traditional analytical techniques and modern instrumental equipment, including HPLC, Dissolution, Karl Fischer, and UV spectroscopy. Knowledge of gas chromatography or mass spectrometry, either standalone or as detection methods, would be highly advantageous.
  • You will be capable of interpreting raw data, drawing conclusions, and troubleshooting analytical issues, instruments, and methods, supported by a strong understanding of chromatographic principles.
  • You will also have experience with validation activities in a GMP environment, the ability to quickly learn new processes, and the initiative to contribute ideas that support improvements in analytical or workflow processes.

Additional Information

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:

  • Being part of a Reward and Recognition Scheme, recognising great work across our teams.
  • Holiday entitlement increases with service.
  • The option to opt into our Health Cash Plan, designed to help look after your everyday health and wellbeing. This allows you to claim back the cost of routine healthcare expenses such as dental check-ups, eye tests, glasses or contact lenses and other everyday medical treatments.
  • Life Assurance from day one, providing cover of four times your annual salary.
  • Automatic enrolment into our Company Pension Plan after three months (with the flexibility to opt out if you choose)
  • Access to our Employee Assistance Programme, offering 24/7 confidential support for both personal and work-related matters.
  • Being able to register your interest in volunteering days, which are designed to support employees who wish to do voluntary work during working hours as part of a wider strategy to contribute positively to the local community.
  • Free on-site car parking.
  • The opportunity to explore worldwide opportunities.
  • 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 in the form of an assessment centre or a staged interview process dependent on the role and it's requirements, this will 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.

Your data

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We embrace diversity! Eurofins network of companies believe in strength and innovation through diversity, being an Equal Opportunity Employer. We prohibit discrimination against employees or applications based on gender identity and/or expression, race, nationality, age, religion, sexual orientation, disability, and everything else that makes employees of Eurofins companies unique.

For more information about Eurofins PSS® please visit our website and watch a message below from our Global Head, Beth Di Paolo.

 

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