Pharmaceutical Specialist

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Role description

Africa Health Organisation (AHO) is setting up a pharmaceutical company to carry out research and produce drugs/medicines and vaccines for patients in Africa. Patients and healthcare providers are all dependent on pharmaceutical companies for the treatment of diseases. Over 80% of drugs/medicines and over 90% of vaccines used in Africa come from outside the continent. AHO is working hard to end this by setting up a new pharmaceutical company to produce drugs/medicines and vaccines in the continent. The purpose of the company is to study diseases, research, and invent new drugs/medicines and vaccines for the diseases. The companies require medical data and reports of patients for researching and discovering new drugs. This is made easier after medical records have gone electronic and are being stored after encryption through blockchain-based applications.

AHO is looking for Specialists in pharmaceutical science to help with setting up the company, registration, governance, board of directors, licensing, production, compliance, regulatory, finance, laboratory, human resources, and marketing.

Roles and responsibilities

• Start-up, registration, governance, licensing, financial, capital, business planning, and lobbying in the UK, US, EU, Asia and Africa.
• Clinical research/clinical trials
• Analysis and pharmaceutical quality,
• biotechnology,
• clinical pharmacology and translational research,
• drug design and discovery,
• formulation design and development and pharmacoengineering,
• pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics and drug metabolism,
• physical pharmacy and biopharmaceutics,
• regulatory sciences, and
• social and behavioral pharmacy, pharmacoepidemiology, and pharmaceutical outcomes.

Qualifications and Experience

Qualifications

Essential

• Degree in pharmaceutical sciences, chemistry, pharmacy, biology, chemistry, medicine, engineering, epidemiology, or similar scientific subject if combined with further education and training such as the MSc Scientist Training Programme (STP) in Clinical Pharmaceutical Sciences, Business Studies such as MBA and Marketing.
• Registered General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) Member or/& HCPC/ RPS or willing to register.

Desirable

• Technical qualification such as Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Technology, Quality Control, Engineering, Manufacturing.
• Post graduate certificate or diploma in a relevant pharmaceutical field.

Knowledge

Essential

• Knowledge of Good Manufacturing Practice and the regulations surrounding Pharmaceutical Manufacture.
• Knowledge of clean room design and functioning.
• Highly developed Professional knowledge, underpinned by theory and experience.

Desirable

• Specialist knowledge of Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Processes including equipment and facility design, construction, validation and testing.
• Knowledge of:- o Aseptic preparation of medicines o Terminal Sterilisation processes o QA/QC services
• An understanding of medicines management procedures
• Knowledge of product licensing and medical devices registration

Experience

Essential

• Experience of product development
• Evidence of working within GMP/GDP guidelines.
• COSHH Regulations and Health & Safety at Work Act.
• Evidence of significant, relevant and on-going personal CPD

Essential

• Leadership and motivational skills
• Problem solving and analytical skills
• Planning and organisational skills; ability to prioritise demands on service and plan workload of self and others
• Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills; ability to communicate with a range of people such as technicians, pharmacists, engineers, clinicians and customers

Desirable

• Change management
• Project Management skills

Other

Essential

• Capable team worker with ability to create and sustain good relationships.
• Able to deal with constant interruptions, multiple pressures and at times aggression.
• Methodical with attention to detail