Country Spain
City Barberà del Vallès
Functional Area Research & Development
Job Group R&D
Employment Type Permanent Contract
Working time Full-time
At its locations around the world, Siegfried offers employees exciting career opportunities in international settings. We cultivate multidisciplinary cooperation and encourage our staff to actively shape and influence their careers. This approach, coupled with our dynamic working environment, make Siegfried an attractive employer.
Your role
Specific Responsibilities:
- Manages the pharmaceutical product development activities for OSD and inhalations located in BAR and supports the Malta site by providing development services when needed.
- Pharmaceutical product development activities include feasibility studies, lab development, scale-up, and pilot plant production.
- Assists Business Development in evaluating new pharmaceutical product projects from external clients regarding feasibility and optimization potential.
- Supports the Project Management team in preparing proposals, including cost estimation and potential CAPEX requirements for development projects.
- Evaluates manufacturing processes for existing pharmaceutical products to assess optimization potential.
- Monitors, regulates, and coordinates development procedures.
- Collaborates closely with the Analytical Development Department and all site functions.
- Provides scientific support for the OSD business, including literature searches.
- Supplies technical data for multi-client product development at Siegfried.
- Establishes the development timeline and takes overall responsibility for timely project cycles.
- Represents the company on scientific and technical matters in client meetings.
- Develops the departmental budget, monitors costs, and ensures adherence to the agreed budget.
- Identifies and participates in the preparation of business cases for potential future investments in Siegfried, based on OSD market trends and updates to the OSD technology roadmap.
General Responsibilities:
- Manages the implementation and compliance with all applicable SHE regulations and cGMP standards.
- Ensures staffing, training, and performance management for the entire formulation team.
Your profile
- MSc or Ph.D. degree in Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Technology, or equivalent.
- Over 8 years of experience in formulation development.
- Languages: highly proficient in spoken and written English, as well as the local language.
- Experience in people management.
- Knowledge of cGMP.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with a proactive and hands-on approach.
- Ability to work effectively with people at all levels and from diverse cultures.
- Detail-oriented and conscientious.
- Experience in cost calculations, budget preparation, and client interaction.
- Excellent project management skills.
- Availability for occasional travel.
Working at Siegfried
Siegfried's work environment is dynamic and international. With a highly professional and motivated team, the company operates in a future-oriented business field. Siegfried possesses a unique culture that leverages cultural differences to create a competitive advantage. Siegfried places highest priority on providing a flexible, diverse and discrimination-free working environment in which employees can develop personally and professionally, advance innovation and deliver superior performance. We strive to provide a work environment where employees can take on challenging jobs and associated responsibilities that best serve their personal and technical development and can benefit from the success of our company. The company regulations in respect of compensation and career development opportunities apply to all Siegfried sites. Additional conditions of employment are governed by location-specific circumstances, legislation and customs.
Who we are
In the Midst of People’s Lives – Across the Globe
The Siegfried Group is one of the world’s leading Custom Development and Manufacturing Organizations (CDMOs) developing and producing active pharmaceutical ingredients (API), intermediates and finished dosage forms. As our core competence, we successfully integrate chemical and pharmaceutical capabilities into a single business model.
The Siegfried name stands for highest quality, efficiency, flexibility and safety. Present in Europe, Asia and North America, we serve a broad global customer base from major international pharmaceutical companies down to small biologic-pharmaceutical organizations. For them we develop and produce product innovations on a large scale to finished products. We integrate our offer seamlessly into the customers’ value chain. Our comprehensive services range from early-stage Research & Development services such as synthesis, scale-up, formulation development, stability studies and method development all the way through to manufacturing services, ranging from preclinical R&D material for clinical trial purposes to commercial production.
We are able to produce about 200 of the approximately 1500 registered drug substances used in medicine. Moreover, we produce 20 percent of global demand for caffeine. Consequently, nearly 1 billion individuals come into contact with Siegfried products.
What we do in Barberà del Vallès
Bulk manufacturing and packaging of solid dosage forms for:
- oral applications incl. high potency (e.g. oncology)
- inhalation capsules for medical devices to treat respiratory diseases