Respiratory Technical Leads Required (Analytical, Formulation and Project Lead Roles)

Viatris helps people worldwide live healthier at every stage of life through:

• Access – supplying trusted, high-quality medicines regardless of geography or circumstances;
• Leadership – promoting sustainable operations and innovative solutions to improve patient health;
• Collaboration – leveraging our shared expertise to connect people with products and services.

Our global portfolio includes best-in-class, iconic brand-name products as well as global key brands; generics, including branded and complex generics; and other offerings across a wide range of therapeutic areas. We are committed to helping create healthier communities worldwide through education, outreach and better access to treatment.

For those driven to live their lives with purpose, Viatris helps employees realise their full potential by creating a collaborative culture that fosters courage and resilience. Viatris is more than just a place to work. This is a place to make a difference in the world.

We have exciting new opportunities in our global respiratory R&D group at Senior Manager and Director level across multiple technical disciplines (analytical, formulation, and project lead). These roles will play a central part within Viatris in creating new respiratory products by applying technical expertise and leadership to the development of our portfolio of NCE and generic products. Technical leadership opportunities exist for candidates with specialised expertise of inhaled and nasal products, including pressurised metered dose inhalers and solutions/suspensions for nebulisation. Candidates with substantial experience in the development of inhalation products will be ideal to join our science-focused department where technical excellence delivers innovation for Viatris.

Every day, we rise to the challenge to make a difference and here’s how the role will make an impact:

• Lead the delivery of project activities to take new respiratory products to clinical studies and commercialisation.
• As a member of multidisciplinary project teams, support the planning and execution of experiments to generate scientific understanding in development of analytical methods, formulations and/or manufacturing processes.
• Ensure the smooth transfer of analytical methodologies or manufacturing processes to commercial facilities.
• Lead the review and/or approval of data, interpretation of results and reporting of experimental outcomes to project development teams.
• Lead scientific input to troubleshooting and investigations.
• Shape formulation design and scale up strategies and overall project plans through input and leadership at matrix team technical discussions.
• Prepare, review and approve documentation (e.g. protocols, reports, procedures, specifications) as required.
• Deliver and/or lead the input to investigational and commercial drug product regulatory filings.
• For people manager roles, take responsibility for performance management and professional development of staff within the team.
• Lead the improvement of departmental capabilities, e.g. by implementation of new technologies.

For this role, we’re looking for a candidate who has an effective combination of the following qualifications, skills and experiences:

• Minimum of a Bachelor of Science Degree (for example Chemistry, Analytical Chemistry, Forensics, Chemical Engineering, Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Sciences) or equivalent.
• Substantial experience of pharmaceutical product development, including the development of inhalation products.
• Substantial experience in the management of activities to achieve project deliverables.
• Highly effective verbal and written communication skills.
• For people manager roles, substantial experience in performance management and personal development of others.
• Substantial experience in authoring GMP documentation and preparing regulatory submissions.
• Substantial experience of the challenges involved in the validation and transfer of complex analytical methods or transfer of manufacturing processes to commercial facilities.
• Substantial experience of the specific challenges involved in the development, approval and commercialisation of inhaled products.
• Able to lead the interpretation of complex data to solve product development issues.
• Able to proactively identify and address barriers to collaborative working with internal and external partners.
• Able to work autonomously to deliver multiple tasks of high complexity across a portfolio of products, working with internal or external teams to plan work to consistently achieve output of high-quality results in a timely manner.
• Has a good understanding of cGMP requirements for analytical work in support of clinical studies and product registration.
• Familiar with the use of project management tools, e.g. Microsoft Project.
• Occasional business travel as required.

At Viatris, we are dedicated to building a truly diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t fully align with every requirement, we still encourage you to apply. You may just be the right candidate for this or other roles.

• Top Employer Accreditation, demonstrating that we provide excellent people policies and practices
• Competitive compensation package inclusive of annual discretionary bonus
• Focus on career progression with growth and development opportunities
• Hybrid work model
• Emphasis on Health and Wellness programmes
• 100% paid medical insurance and Employee Assistance Programme
• Life cover
• Excellent employer-matched pension scheme with Viatris contributing up to 11%
• 2 paid volunteer days per year

At Viatris, diversity and inclusion are essential to our mission. The diversity we foster in all aspects of our business can be one of our greatest strengths in redefining healthcare not as it is, but as it should be.

Corporate social responsibility is fundamental to the Viatris mission. We work to advance responsible and sustainable operations and leverage our collective expertise to empower people to live healthier at every stage of life, recognising that our actions affect the stakeholders and communities we serve.