Use Your Power for Purpose

At Pfizer, our purpose is to deliver breakthroughs that change patients’ lives. Your contributions will directly impact the development of new therapies and vaccines, ultimately improving the lives of patients around the world. By leveraging cutting-edge design and process development capabilities, you will help accelerate the delivery of best-in-class medicines to patients globally.

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About PfizerProcess Development Centre

The Pfizer global Process Development Centre (PDC) is an innovative team which develops new API processes and technology for the Pfizer global manufacturing network. Additionally, the PDC leads and supports various supply assurance projects for the global manufacturing network. Our team works closely with global research and operations teams enabling the manufacture of life saving medicines.

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About the role

We now have an exciting opportunity for a Research Analyst to join our team based in Cork, Ireland. The successful candidate will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team working with leading edge technology. The PDC is a vibrant, dynamic team with excellent career development and advancement opportunities. This role will require attendance at our facility in Cork.

Specific Purpose Contract
The purpose of this specific purpose contract is contingent upon project support requirements in PDC for the External Supply OpU Polaris initiative, which include but are not limited to the following focus areas: i) Process and Analytical development laboratory activities to support optimisation of the Isavuconazole API process and ii) Process and Analytical development laboratory activities to support the optimisation of other priority API processes identified for optimisation within the External Supply portfolio as deemed appropriate.

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Job Responsibilities

• Apply highly specialised analytical skills to support chemical process development, pilot plant demonstrations and full-scale qualification batches as part of the Development team.

• Develop, evaluate & verify analytical methods across a range of techniques as required to support projects.

• Provide analytical testing across a range of techniques to support chemical process development, pilot plant demonstrations and full-scale qualification batches as part of the team.

• Contribute a range of highly innovative analytical ideas to support global process development projects.

• Demonstrate problem solving delivering process and analytical understanding.

• Provide analytical support in technical transfer of analytical methods to manufacturing sites

• Co-ordinate and/or contribute to analytical validation and method transfer (MT) activities as required by project demands.

• Contribute and/or lead troubleshooting and investigation of analytical issues with existing commercial API processes to support project teams, API sites (internal and external) and global technical groups.  

• Investigate new technologies and analytical approaches

• Complete reports, memos and lab notebooks experiments to a high standard and meeting required deadlines.

• Contribute to the analytical team program of continuous improvement.

• Ensure the ongoing safe and efficient operation of facilities.

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Qualifications/Skills

Requirements for all Global Job Levels

• Extensive knowledge and experience of analytical principles and procedures.

• Practical experience in a range of analytical techniques including but not limited to HPLC, UPLC, GC, SFC, LC-MS/MS, GC-MS, KF.

• A strong background in impurity isolation and identification using LC-MS to support the development and troubleshooting of chemical processes is desirable.

• Experience in HPLC/UPLC method development. GC method development experience is desirable.

• Experience in pGTI method development and quantification is desirable.

• Experience of method validation and method transfers, including the generation and review of MT and validation protocols and reports is desirable.

• A proven ability to plan and work independently. The candidate must be able to work under consultative direction, toward predetermined long-range goals and objectives for a project.  Project management experience a plus here.  

• The candidate should have the ability to determine and pursue courses of action necessary to obtain desired results.  Develops advanced ideas and guides their development into a final product.  

• Demonstrated application of 6-sigma tools and practices and a focus on continuous improvement for work processes.

• Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to work in a collaborative, team driven environment.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• For Research Analyst, a PhD in analytical chemistry ideally combined with 0+ years’ experience in the pharmaceutical industry, ideally within an analytical development role; or a BSc/MSc in a degree with significant analytical focus and ideally up to 2+ years’ experience in the pharmaceutical industry, ideally within an analytical development role. Experience in project management, complex analytical investigation and method development is desired for this role.

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