Senior Pharmaceutical Scientist

We're Hiring: Senior Pharmaceutical Scientist

Location: United Arab Emirates (Remote)

Employment Type: Full-Time

Experience Level: Senior

Work Arrangement: Fully Remote

About Us

We are a globally focused organization committed to advancing pharmaceutical research, product development, scientific innovation, and high-quality healthcare solutions across diverse markets. Our multidisciplinary teams combine pharmaceutical science, research, analytical development, formulation, manufacturing, quality, regulatory, clinical, and commercial expertise.

Our teams work across the pharmaceutical product lifecycle to translate scientific research into safe, effective, stable, manufacturable, and commercially viable products while maintaining strong standards of scientific integrity, quality, patient safety, regulatory compliance, and operational excellence.

The Role

We are seeking an experienced Senior Pharmaceutical Scientist to provide scientific and technical leadership across pharmaceutical research, drug-product development, analytical activities, formulation, process optimization, stability, technical investigations, and product lifecycle management.

The ideal candidate will apply advanced pharmaceutical-science expertise to develop and improve products, evaluate scientific risks, solve complex technical problems, support regulatory requirements, and collaborate with multidisciplinary teams from early development through commercialization and lifecycle management.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead pharmaceutical-science activities across research, development, optimization, and product lifecycle programs.
• Develop scientific strategies aligned with product-development objectives, target product profiles, quality requirements, and business priorities.
• Conduct pharmaceutical research and development activities using scientifically sound and reproducible approaches.
• Evaluate active pharmaceutical ingredients, excipients, intermediates, finished products, and other pharmaceutical materials.
• Characterize physicochemical, chemical, biological, and performance attributes relevant to pharmaceutical products.
• Support pre-formulation, formulation, analytical, process-development, and product-characterization activities.
• Develop and optimize pharmaceutical formulations and product compositions where applicable.
• Evaluate drug-product performance, stability, manufacturability, and compatibility.
• Design and execute scientific experiments to investigate pharmaceutical development questions.
• Apply appropriate statistical and experimental-design approaches to development studies.
• Analyze experimental data and translate scientific findings into development recommendations.
• Identify critical material attributes, critical process parameters, and critical quality attributes relevant to pharmaceutical products.
• Apply Quality by Design principles and risk-based development approaches where appropriate.
• Develop scientifically justified development strategies, control approaches, and product specifications.
• Support analytical method development, optimization, verification, validation, and transfer activities.
• Collaborate with Analytical Development teams to establish suitable analytical strategies.
• Interpret analytical data including assay, impurities, dissolution, content uniformity, degradation products, physical properties, and other relevant parameters.
• Support development of stability-indicating analytical and product-control strategies.
• Design and coordinate stability studies under appropriate storage conditions.
• Monitor stability data and investigate trends, failures, unexpected changes, and potential degradation mechanisms.
• Conduct pharmaceutical investigations related to product quality, analytical results, formulation performance, process variability, and manufacturing issues.
• Lead or support root-cause investigations for deviations, out-of-specification results, out-of-trend results, and other quality events.
• Develop scientifically appropriate corrective and preventive actions.
• Support technical assessments and investigations associated with product complaints and post-market quality issues.
• Collaborate with Manufacturing and Process Development teams to improve pharmaceutical processes and product performance.
• Support scale-up, pilot manufacturing, engineering batches, process characterization, and process-validation activities.
• Evaluate the impact of scale, equipment, process parameters, raw materials, and environmental conditions on product quality.
• Support technology-transfer activities from research and development laboratories to manufacturing facilities.
• Prepare technical transfer packages, development reports, process descriptions, and scientific documentation.
• Evaluate manufacturing process robustness and identify opportunities for process optimization.
• Support formulation and process changes throughout the pharmaceutical product lifecycle.
• Assess proposed changes to materials, suppliers, formulations, processes, specifications, equipment, and analytical methods.
• Participate in change-control assessments and implementation activities.
• Evaluate alternative raw materials, excipients, suppliers, and technologies to improve quality, cost, availability, and supply resilience.
• Support pharmaceutical product lifecycle management, reformulation, product improvement, and line-extension initiatives.
• Conduct scientific literature reviews, technology assessments, patent reviews, and competitive technical benchmarking.
• Monitor emerging pharmaceutical technologies, delivery systems, analytical techniques, manufacturing technologies, and scientific methodologies.
• Identify opportunities to introduce innovative technologies and scientific approaches into product development.
• Collaborate with Regulatory Affairs to prepare technical information and scientific documentation for regulatory submissions.
• Provide scientific support for regulatory questions concerning formulation, analytical methods, manufacturing, stability, specifications, and product performance.
• Prepare or review technical sections of regulatory dossiers and supporting development documentation.
• Ensure pharmaceutical-development activities comply with applicable GMP, GLP, ICH, pharmacopoeial, and regulatory requirements.
• Collaborate with Quality Assurance to maintain appropriate quality standards across scientific and development activities.

Key Performance Indicators

• Pharmaceutical development project delivery
• Development milestone achievement
• Research-to-development progression
• Experimental completion rate
• Scientific study success rate
• Product development cycle time
• Formulation development success
• Analytical development completion
• Method validation completion
• Method transfer success
• Stability-study completion
• Stability performance
• Product quality performance
• Critical quality attribute compliance
• Process robustness
• Scale-up success rate
• Technology-transfer success
• Manufacturing batch success
• Pharmaceutical-development deviation rate
• Out-of-specification investigation rate
• Out-of-trend investigation rate
• Root-cause investigation effectiveness
• Corrective and preventive action effectiveness
• Technical report accuracy
• Scientific documentation compliance
• Data-integrity compliance
• GMP and GLP compliance
• SOP compliance
• Regulatory submission support quality
• Regulatory query response effectiveness
• Audit finding rate
• Audit observation closure
• Product complaint investigation effectiveness
• Product lifecycle improvement delivery
• Technical risk reduction
• Innovation and technology adoption
• Development cost efficiency
• External partner performance
• Project budget adherence
• Scientific resource utilization
• Training completion
• Scientific competency development
• Stakeholder satisfaction
• Continuous-improvement implementation
• Post-launch technical issue reduction

Ideal Candidate

The successful candidate should have strong experience in pharmaceutical science, pharmaceutics, drug-product development, pharmaceutical research, analytical science, formulation science, process development, or a closely related discipline, preferably within pharmaceutical, biotechnology, healthcare, or other regulated life-science environments.

The candidate should demonstrate:

• Strong knowledge of pharmaceutical sciences and drug-product development principles.
• Proven experience leading or contributing to pharmaceutical research and development programs.
• Strong understanding of active pharmaceutical ingredients, excipients, pharmaceutical materials, and product attributes.
• Experience with formulation development, optimization, characterization, or pharmaceutical product performance.
• Strong understanding of analytical development and interpretation of pharmaceutical analytical data.
• Experience with stability studies, degradation assessment, and product-quality investigations.
• Strong knowledge of Quality by Design, risk assessment, and scientifically justified development approaches.
• Experience applying statistical or experimental-design principles to pharmaceutical development