Senior Formulation Scientist, Pharmaceutical Development

Placements24; Queenstown; Hybrid; NZD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Modern formulation laboratories

Professional growth opportunities

Job summary

Placements24 is seeking a creative Formulation Scientist to join our pharmaceutical development team in Queenstown, NZ. The role focuses on designing, developing, and optimizing dosage forms for new and existing products, ensuring efficacy, safety, and patient compliance.

You will work across projects from early development to scale-up, collaborating with chemists, analysts, and manufacturing teams, applying deep knowledge of pharmaceutics and drug delivery systems in a hands-on lab setting.

Qualifications

• PhD or MSc in Pharmaceutics, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chemistry, or related field.
• Minimum 5 years of pharmaceutical formulation development experience.
• Strong knowledge of drug delivery systems and excipients.
• Hands-on experience with formulation development equipment and techniques.
• Familiarity with GMP principles and regulatory requirements.
• Excellent problem-solving abilities and scientific communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop oral solid dosage forms (tablets, capsules).
• Conduct pre-formulation studies on drug substances.
• Optimize formulations for bioavailability, stability, manufacturability.
• Pilot-scale formulation development and tech transfer to manufacturing.
• Characterize formulations by particle size, dissolution, microscopy.
• Collaborate with analytical teams to establish test methods.

Skills

Drug delivery systems

Excipients interactions

Formulation development equipment

Problem-solving

Scientific communication

Education

PhD or MSc in Pharmaceutics, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chemistry, or a related field

Tools

Laboratory instrumentation experience

Job description

Placements24 is seeking a creative Formulation Scientist to join our pharmaceutical development team in Queenstown, NZ. The role focuses on designing, developing, and optimizing dosage forms for new and existing products, ensuring efficacy, safety, and patient compliance.

You will work across projects from early development to scale-up, collaborating with chemists, analysts, and manufacturing teams, applying deep knowledge of pharmaceutics and drug delivery systems in a hands-on lab setting.