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Job Function:

Discovery & Pre-Clinical/Clinical Development

Job Sub Function:

Pharmaceutical Product R&D

Job Category:

Scientific/Technology

All Job Posting Locations:

Beerse, Antwerp, Belgium

Job Description:

Our expertise in Innovative Medicine is informed and inspired by patients, whose insights fuel our science-based advancements. Visionaries like you work on teams that save lives by developing the medicines of tomorrow.

Join us in developing treatments, finding cures, and pioneering the path from lab to life while championing patients every step of the way.

Learn more at https://www.jnj.com/innovative-medicine

Pharmaceutical & Material Sciences (P&MS) is, within the Pharmaceutical Development & Supply (PPDS) organization of the Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson and Johnson, responsible for high-throughput experimentation, preformulation, biopharmaceutics, solid state form selection and understanding, and material selection and qualification.

In the P&MS team Belgium (Beerse) there is a temporary vacancy for a Scientist High-Throughput & Preformulation Sciences.

Job description

• Lead the design, execution, and analysis of high-throughput screening experiments related to solid state design, excipient selection and formulation design.
• Develop new robust assays and workflows to support, automate and accelerate preformulation activities and formulation screening.
• Innovate and implement new technologies and methodologies to improve data quality, data management and data analytics.
• Stay current with industry trends, emerging technologies, and regulatory requirements related to formulation science.
• Take part in research collaborations with academic and private organizations and consortia.
• Work in a multidisciplinary team of researchers, internally as well as externally building and maintaining a strong relationship with key stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Degree in Sciences: Pharmaceutical, Chemistry (analytical/organic), Physics, Engineering or a related science with experience in preformulation, biopharmaceutics or high-throughput physicochemical characterization (PhD or equivalent by experience).
• Proficiency in (pre)formulation development, especially in high-throughput screening
• Proven expertise in assay development, miniaturization, automation, and data analysis
• Experience with data management software and statistical analysis tools.
• Team player, dynamic, creative, innovative and flexible.

 

 

Required Skills:

 

 

Preferred Skills:

Analytical Reasoning, Clinical Data Management, Collaborating, Data Savvy, Drug Discovery Development, Emerging Technologies, Innovation, Laboratory Experiments, Market Research, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Product Development, Product Strategies, Project Management, Report Writing, Scientific Research, Standard Scientific Processes and Procedures, Technologically Savvy, Use of Laboratory Equipment