Pfizer Hiring for Associate Scientist at Chennai, Tamil Nadu Full Time

Pfizer’s purpose is to deliver breakthroughs that change patients’ lives. Research and Development is at the heart of fulfilling Pfizer’s purpose as we work to translate advanced science and technologies into the therapies and vaccines that matter most. Whether you are in the discovery sciences, ensuring drug safety and efficacy or supporting clinical trials, you will apply cutting edge design and process development capabilities to accelerate and bring the best in class medicines to patients around the world.

What You Will Achieve

As an Associate Scientist, you will be at the center of our operations and you’ll find that everything we do, every day, is in line with an unwavering commitment to quality. You will perform qualitative and quantitative analyses of organic, inorganic compounds, or biologics. This will help you determine chemical and physical properties during chemical syntheses, fermentation or drug product development process by verifying their identity, purity, and homogeneity.

Your strong foundation in general scientific practice, its principles and concepts will help in meeting critical deadlines. You will be relied on as a technical contributor to assess the assigned tasks and make decisions that involve direct application of your knowledge.

It is your focus and commitment that will help in making Pfizer ready to achieve new milestones and help patients across the globe.

How You Will Achieve It

Exercise and build basic team effectiveness skills {e.g., commitment, feedback, consensus management) within the work group.

Prepare and review technical documents, including validation protocols and reports, analytical test procedures, investigation reports, and change controls.

Direct interaction with project team members, including presentation of data.

Complete all Good Laboratory Practice {part of GxP}and safety training in compliance with departmental requirements and follow appropriate safety practices in the workplace.

Perform various experiments for analytical method development/qualification/validation and characterization for biological therapeutics.

Perform and document drug substance or drug product related Microbiological activities.

Conduct all work according to appropriate Standard Operating Procedures following Good Manufacturing Practices/Good Laboratory Practices (GMP/GLP) requirements and ensure integrity of all data generated and documented.

Independently analyze and provide conclusions regarding experimental data generated.

Plan and prioritize related recovery and purification activities.

Present problems and propose solutions in discussions with group members.

Qualifications

Must-Have

Master’s Degree (MSc/MPharm Chemistry /related to chemistry/pharmaceutical science)

Strong theoretical understanding of the concepts, working principles

Hands-on experience or working knowledge in the Pharmaceutical industry in handling analytical instruments.

Critical thinking and technical understanding to solve analytical challenges.

Understanding the requirement of the Pharmaceutical industry and regulations

Good documentation skills with high attention to detail, strong organizational skills, team-oriented, effective interpersonal and communication skills

Nice-to-Have

Technical report writeup

Working knowledge and ability to operate analytical and physical techniques used for the characterization of pharmaceutical substances and products

Understanding of method validation requirements and its principles

Work Location Assignment: On Premise

Pfizer is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable equal employment opportunity legislation in each jurisdiction in which it operates.

Research and Development