Director, Formulations & Development

Our biopharmaceutical client here in Waltham, is growing and looking to add a Director, Formulations & Development to their team (Hybrid).  This role will be responsible for leading formulation development, drug product development, and supporting all technical aspects of drug product technology transfer, validation, and manufacturing.

Responsibilities:  
•    Lead internal formulation activities for company’s monoclonal antibody products in support of discovery and IND enabling development, including onsite, hands-on laboratory work.
•    Provide scientific and technical leadership for outsourced formulation development. Provide technical support for drug product manufacture, technology transfer, and validation.
•    Work with the drug product manufacturing team to design and implement drug product and formulation validation activities to support commercialization.
•    Develop and lead development and tech transfer activities for formulation and drug product life cycle management.
•    Design studies, analyze data, organize results, generate/review reports, and communicate findings to project teams and management.
•    Author and review protocols and technical reports documenting formulation development studies, ensuring compliance with company policies, cGMP, and FDA regulations.
•    Author and review IND/CTA/BLA formulation and drug product related regulatory filing sections.
•    Work closely with Drug Product Manufacturing, Analytical, QC and Process Development partners to assess product quality and product stability.

Requirements: 
•    Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Sciences or a related scientific field with 8+ years of industry experience in biologics formulation study design and execution, scale-up, tech transfer, & Quality by Design (QbD) studies.
•    Experience with relevant analytical technologies used in assessment of molecule attributes and stability, including: HPLC/UPLC, MFI, DSC, DLS, DSF, viscosity, SVP characterization, etc.
•    Experience providing technical support for drug product manufacturing and tech transfer.
•    Past experience overseeing outsourced vendors (CROs/CMOs/CTLs/CDMOs)
•    Experience authoring CMC sections for IND and BLA.