Scientist in Advanced Drug Delivery

Job description

Scientist in Advanced Drug Delivery, AstraZeneca Gothenburg

At AstraZeneca we turn ideas into life changing medicines and strive to continuously meet the unmet needs of patients worldwide. Working here means being entrepreneurial, thinking big, and working together to make the impossible a reality. If you are swift to action, confident to lead, willing to collaborate, and curious about what science can do, then you’re our kind of person.

Pharmaceutical Sciences at AstraZeneca delivers the therapies of the future through scientific leadership in drug delivery, design of synthetic routes, and manufacturing of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (API) and drug products. Advanced Drug Delivery (ADD) resides within Pharmaceutical Sciences with a mission to provide novel products to AstraZeneca’s clinical pipeline. Our portfolio of projects spans traditional small molecules, peptides, oligonucleotides to RNA based therapeutics across AstraZeneca’s therapy areas.

We are now recruiting a talented and motivated Scientist in the formulation area to join our New Modality Preformulation team within the Advanced Drug Delivery (ADD) function in Gothenburg, Sweden for a parental leave cover .

This is a consultant assignment with Randstad Life Sciences. Randstad Life Sciences is specialized in competences within Life Science. As a consultant you get a competitive salary, benefits and collective agreements. Your consultant manager ensures that you get varying and developing assignments at different companies, within different industries. At Randstad Life Sciences, your personal development is in focus, and you are offered a large network and many social activities.

Deadline 2024-04-18 - the selection process and interviews will be ongoing, so please apply as soon as possible!

Responsibilities

This is an exciting role where you will act as a key member of various project teams and provide your technical and scientific expertise into formulation design of biomacromolecules within the new modality area. As a Scientist you will support drug projects from a formulation perspective in the discovery phase of the drug development process, working from target identification to candidate drug nomination. The role covers development and characterization of formulations of oligonucleotides of high complexity. You will support drug projects within your own function in the preclinical phase and you will serve as a member of the cross-functional drug development project teams, representing your function and scientific area. You will work in close collaboration with formulation scientists, analytical chemists as well as biopharmaceutics experts in Gothenburg, Sweden but also with colleagues in Cambridge, UK and Waltham, US.

If your passion is science & technology and you want to be part of a team that makes a positive impact on patients’ lives, then there’s no better place to be. With us there are many opportunities to develop yourself and your career. From our diverse portfolio and teamwork to our cutting-edge innovations – it’s a place for lifelong learning.

Qualifications

Essential for the roles

• Masters or PhD degree in relevant scientific discipline (e.g., Analytical Chemistry, Biochemistry, Biotechnology or Pharmacy)
• Previous experience of working with biomacromolecules (e.g. RNA, proteins or peptides) or formulations of small molecules.
• Ability to work independently in a laboratory setting.

Desirable:

• Industrial experience in a pharmaceutical environment.

Soft skill:

• Scientific interest in exploratory formulation/characterization work related to complex molecules, delivery systems and new technologies.
• Ability and desire/willingness to effectively communicate, network and build collaborative relationships with partners across disciplines and cultures, internally and externally and independently lead and influence projects.

About the company

Randstad

At Randstad, we see the possible in people. With business all over Sweden and in all areas of expertise, we help people find work that feels good, where they get the opportunity to develop and realize their true potential.

With close to 600 000 employees in 38 countries, Randstad is the global leader in the HR services industry. Our mission is to become the world’s most valued working life partner. By combining our passion for people with the power of today’s technology, we support people and organizations in realizing their true potential. We call it Human Forward.