Associate Director - Analytical Chemistry

Support to Marketed OTC Products

The leader of this section, a part of Analytical Development (AD) R&D, will be in the leadership team at AD and the responsibilities will be to support marketed OTC products. A close collaboration with quality control laboratories, the formulation support to marketed products and a European deployment organisation will be important. Given that it is a group of four principal scientists and two contractor senior scientists to manage there will be strategically leadership, a substantial part of operational responsibilities and budget responsibility included in the role.

The Support to Marketed Products (SMP) -work will include larger projects such as analytical support to reformulations and process changes. Also larger issues connected to the production that will need R&D and analytical chemistry input will be within the scope. The SMP-support will include work related to finished products, APIs and excipients.

Another important area is to identify compliance gaps and when needed develop and validate new analytical methods or revalidate current methods as part of the specifications. In this process the applicable cGMP requirements and regulatory guideline requirements will need to be well understood.

The current main focus from a product perspective is to support the NicoretteT product portfolio but will in the future include all products developed at R&D Helsingborg such as Digestive Health and Cough/Cold. The product portfolio is a global portfolio why a broad knowledge of worldwide requirements for analytical methods, specifications and stability testing is a merit.

Business: McNeil AB

City: Helsingborg

Job type: Full time

Deadline for applications: 2014.02.28

More information: Camilla Wern at Proffice Life Science, 0733-436098

Qualification:

The person we are looking for has preferably at least 5 years of experience within the pharmaceutical industry as a people manager and is well acquainted with cGMP requirements. A Ph D within a relevant chemistry area is a merit but not a requirement; otherwise achieved scientific skills will be valued equally, that is, chemical analytical testing is a pre-requisite. Knowledge and understanding of gum, lozenge, spray, nasal and/or inhaled products as well as medical device requirements is a merit. Good leadership skills and being good at connecting and collaborating with people at different levels are important.

You should be able to communicate in Swedish but since we are working in an international organisation good verbal and written English is a prerequisite. Experience from documentation in general and writing registration files and or response to registration files are important skills that will be valued. The ability to grasp, understand and translate complex problems into explicit work packages will be needed.

The applicant should apply at Proffice Life Science website www.profficelifescience.se. The application should include a personal letter describing why you are the right person for this position, a curriculum vitae and references.

Organization/Business description:

Johnson & Johnson is a globally operating health care company employing approximately 129 000 people in more than 250 companies in 60 countries. Our worldwide headquarters is in New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA. McNeil AB is part of the Johnson & Johnson Family of Companies and the largest industry in Helsingborg with around 630 employees. We develop and manufacture OTC drugs and amongst our brands Nicorette is the largest and also the world-leading product for smoking cessation. We encourage our employees to an active, healthy and tobacco free lifestyle - our premises are tobacco free. www.mcneilab.se