Pharma Formulation Scientist & Process Modeller

Cpl Life Sciences; Newsham; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

CPL Life Sciences seeks an experienced scientist to join a Materials Characterisation team focusing on formulation development and drug product manufacturing. You will study how raw material and API variability affects manufacturability, robustness, and performance, using experimental work, predictive modelling, and data-driven science to guide supplier changes and risk assessments.

You will help bridge formulation science, process understanding and material characterisation, predicting scale-up

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related scientific discipline.
• 3–5 years' industry experience in Pharmaceutical formulation development or related pharmaceutical disciplines.
• Experience working with oral solid dosage forms and pharmaceutical manufacturing processes.
• Demonstrated experience designing experimental studies and interpreting scientific data.
• Excellent technical writing and presentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Design and execute laboratory studies to assess the impact of material variability and supplier changes on drug product performance.
• Apply Science of Scale principles to develop representative small-scale manufacturing models.
• Use computational and predictive modelling approaches to forecast process and product performance.
• Design and perform formulation-focused performance prediction studies.
• Investigate relationships between material attributes, manufacturing process parameters, and CQAs; conduct experiments covering powder blending, content uniformity, wet and dry granulation, powder flow and feeding behavior, and tablet compression and compaction.

Skills

Formulation development

Drug product manufacturing

Data-driven decision making

Critical thinking

Scientific writing

Stakeholder management

Independent working

Education

Bachelor's degree in a related scientific discipline

Job description

CPL Life Sciences seeks an experienced scientist to join a Materials Characterisation team focusing on formulation development and drug product manufacturing. You will study how raw material and API variability affects manufacturability, robustness, and performance, using experimental work, predictive modelling, and data-driven science to guide supplier changes and risk assessments.

You will help bridge formulation science, process understanding and material characterisation, predicting scale-up