Pharmaceutical Engineering Scientist

Sanofi

Montpellier, France

About the job

Are you ready to shape the future of medicine? The race is on to speed up drug discovery and development to find answers for patients and their families. Your skills could be critical in helping our teams accelerate progress. Join our Pharmaceutical Engineering team as a Scientist within the CMC Synthetics Platform and you will contribute to Sanofi's transformation proposing and implementing new technological and digital solutions based on mechanistic understanding to accelerate knowledge generation and increase efficiency and robustness.

Main responsibilities:

Propose and generate, within the framework of development projects, specific activities requiring physicochemical and process expertise to support the development of assigned clinical and commercial products
Responsible of the good traceability and quality of the performed experiments
Being the main focal point for managing laboratory life: maintaining equipment in a good running status, ensuring SOP renewal and HSE requirements
Championing the use of digital tools, especially actively contributing to the implementation of equipment end-to-end data connection and management and to automation and robotic implementation
Proactively communicate with internal (clinical manufacturing, MSAT, analytical team) and external partners (CDMO, consortium) about the challenges of physico-chemical characterization methods to promote continuous collaborative improvements
Communicate achievements and significant contributions within projects
Complying with all internal and applicable government Quality and HSE (Health, Safety and Environmental) requirements

About you

Experience:

The ideal candidate has demonstrated effectiveness in conducting laboratory experiments with scientific rigor and strong traceability practices. They have shown the ability to propose continuous improvement and innovative solutions. This includes the ability to design experimental plans and propose representative use-tests to collect data required up to the translation of conceptual mathematical models to computer models
Proven experience in equipment fleet management and has experience operating in a fast-paced environment leading engineering work packages development individually or through matrix teams

Soft and technical skills:

A strong understanding of solid-state physical characterizations and knowledge about galenic manufacturing processes. A good technical knowledge of the state of the art of the available manufacturing and characterization equipment available on the market. Demonstrated skills on equipment integration and connectivity and on database management and data processing (ELN systems, SQL expertise, data extraction, industrial communication protocols, etc.). A basic understanding of statistical concepts to effectively work with our biostatisticians partners
Strong people skills to drive change management by resolving conflict, building support, and engaging with partners
In addition to a good teamwork spirit, laboratory autonomy, practical mindset and initiative-taking skills are requested