Senior Expert – Oral Dosage Form Development (80-100%*)

Job Description Summary

Location: Basel, Switzerland

Role Purpose:
Are you energized by the challenge of transforming scientific innovation into life-changing therapies? Does the prospect of steering oral dosage form development, driving technical excellence, and leading projects with real business impact resonate with your ambitions? If you thrive in environments where experimental ingenuity meets strategic oversight—and where your communication and stakeholder management skills truly make a difference—then keep reading.

Does this describe you? You see solutions where others see obstacles, and you relish the opportunity to advance cutting-edge small molecules into oral dosage forms. You are passionate about building reliable processes, ensuring regulatory compliance, and collaborating across disciplines to deliver quality drug products for clinical trials and commercial supply.
If you’re seeking a pivotal role that empowers you to shape the future of pharmaceutical innovation, take the next step towards joining Novartis as the Senior Expert Science and Technology for Oral Dosage Form development

Job Description

As you consider taking on this influential position, here’s what you can expect from the role’s primary responsibilities. Each aspect is designed to challenge and inspire, ensuring your expertise finds its fullest expression:

• Oversee complex projects with significant business impact, making informed decisions from diverse data sources and actively mitigating risks to achieve project goals.
• Lead formulation and technical development activities for drug product manufacturing on assigned projects.
• Supervise development, scale-up, registration, and validation of drug substance, particle engineering, and drug development programs in accordance with Quality, HSE, and cGMP standards.
• Manage the manufacturing process for clinical materials, collaborating with supporting technical areas as needed.
• Resolve process challenges across multiple unit operations by employing both experimental methods and process simulation/modeling techniques.

In this role, you will harness advanced data science and mechanistic modeling to inform every stage of development and scale-up, ensuring data-driven decisions underpin formulation strategies and process optimization. Your expertise in extracting actionable insights from complex datasets will help accelerate innovation, streamline technology transfer, and deliver robust manufacturing solutions that meet the highest standards of quality and regulatory compliance.

What you’ll bring to the role:

• Advanced degree in a relevant scientific field, ideally in Pharmaceutical Technology.
• Minimum 3 years of industry experience in the development of pharmaceutical formulations for small molecules.
• LanguageEnglish (mandatory). German or French (optional)

Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion: Novartis is committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams' representative of the patients and communities we serve.

Accessibility and accommodation
Novartis is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to all individuals. If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the recruitment process, or in order to receive more detailed information about the essential functions of a position, please send an e-mail to inclusion.switzerland@novartis.com and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. Please include the job requisition number in your message.

 

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