Job Description

Role Description
Scientist, Formulation Development

Zoetis is the largest animal health company in the world, with an industry-leading veterinary medicine research and development team. We seek a talented and experienced formulation scientist/product design engineer to join and actively contribute to our research and development team\xe2\x80\x99s efforts to develop novel veterinary therapeutics.

Position Responsibilities:

• Support research and development of novel pharmaceutical drug products, including sterile liquids, suspensions, topicals, and various other dosage forms.
• Execute pre-formulation and formulation development studies for pharmaceutical drug candidates.
• Monitor and evaluate clinical studies and manage supply logistics.
• Ensure supplies are accurate and appropriate and in accordance with regional regulations.
• Perform data analysis on in vitro and in vivo results to evaluate product performance and inform product development.
• Oversee product packaging considerations across research and commercialization.
• Conduct scale-up studies and root-cause investigations to transfer products from research to manufacturing.
• Coordinate with external partners (CROs & CMOs) throughout the development process.
• Author memos, study protocols, development reports, and regulatory documents for filing and commercial launch.
• Ability to accommodate local, domestic, and international business travel up to 15% annually.

Education and Experience requirements:

• BS (with 5-15 years\xe2\x80\x99 experience), or MS (with 0-10 years\xe2\x80\x99 experience) in pharmacy/pharmaceutics, chemical or biomedical engineering, data engineering, or related field.
• Experience with pharmaceutical formulation development.
• Experience with scientific graphing and statistical software.
• Effective and demonstrated communication and supply chain leadership skills.
• Experience with international teams, CROs/CMOs.
• Experience working in matrix-like teams and collaborating with diverse scientists.
• Experience in authoring scientific documents.

Other desirable attributes

• Understanding of Quality by Design and Design of Experiment approaches and techniques.
• Familiarity with GMP, VICH, Pharmacopoeial, Technical and Regulatory requirements in relation to animal health product development and manufacturing.
• Familiarity with manufacturing process development, scale-up, and technology transfer to pilot/commercial scale.
• Familiarity with the Animal Health industry with experience working with Marketing/Commercial colleagues.
• Experience with writing CMC technical sections and supporting post-commercial changes.

Full time
Regular
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