Staff Scientist, Pharma OSD - Ashland Inc

Are you the kind of person that is always thinking, sketching, seeking, and adjusting? Who needs to understand how things work and then figure out how they can work better? Are you a passionate, tenacious solver who loves to work with others who share your drive? Are you positive, constructive, and ingenious?

Are you always solving?

Then we’d like to meet you, and we bet you’d like to meet us.

Ashland has an exciting opportunity for a Pharmaceutical Oral Solid Dosage (OSD) Scientist to join our Life Sciences business at our Wilmington Research Center in Delaware. This position will report to the Global OSD Leader.

The Staff Scientist is an experienced technical professional supporting Ashland’s Pharma OSD  products and applications in North America. They are responsible for working on new product development and its characterization and identifying new areas for product application.

The responsibilities of the position include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Lead the evaluation of Ashland’s innovative platform technologies in pharmaceutical applications such as solubility and permeability enhancement, novel tableting excipients, and film coating.
• Demonstrates in-depth knowledge/expertise in solubility and permeation enhancement techniques such as amorphous solid dispersions, lipid-based systems, permeation enhancers, surfactants, drug complexes, etc
• Experienced in developing oral solid dose products, manufacturing, and scale-up, including an operational understanding of wet and dry granulation equipment, hot melt extrusion, spray-drying, complexation techniques, tablet presses, encapsulation technology, etc.
• Contribute to creative application approaches utilizing Ashland’s excipients by generating ideas and concepts to meet current and anticipated customer needs
• Design and execute research activities, technical presentations, posters, and papers for internal and external use at customer sites, scientific conferences, and trade shows.
• Visit customers to expand opportunities for pharma excipients, resolve customer technical and scale-up issues, and provide appropriate technical seminars supporting commercial initiatives.

To be qualified for this role, you must possess the following:

• M.S., or Ph.D. in a relevant discipline such as pharmaceutical sciences, chemical engineering, chemistry, or Life Sciences is required.
• 5-10 years prior experience in pharmaceutical formulation and technical service or product development
• Hands-on expertise with formulating tablets, capsules, and/or other oral dosage forms with experience in lab to pilot-scale blending, granulation, tableting, coating, and similar processes.
• Advanced competency in science-based innovation.
• Good interpersonal and presentation skills to share development work within the organization and with customers.
• Able to handle multiple projects simultaneously.
• Ability to travel occasionally (about 20-30%) for customer meetings or plant trials.
• Must be authorized to work in the United States

The following skill sets are preferred by the business unit:

• Working understanding of oral delivery of protein, peptides, and oligonucleotides
• Experience working within multicultural and multifunctional teams
• Some supervisory experience and demonstrated awareness of safety issues
• Strong written, oral presentation, organizational and problem-solving skills
• Working knowledge of Design of Experiments (DOE), Microsoft Office Suite, and statistical

Perks of working at Ashland:

• Team recognition rewards, sponsored lunches, and monetary incentives based on
• performance
• Comprehensive Benefit package, Medical, Dental, and Vision starting on Day 1 for you AND your family
• 401(k) plan with company match
• Interesting problems to solve/work to do

In more than 100 countries, the people of Ashland LLC. (NYSE: ASH) provide the specialty chemicals, technologies and insights to help customers create new and improved products for today and sustainable solutions for tomorrow. Our chemistry is at work every day in a wide variety of markets and applications, including architectural coatings, automotive, construction, energy, personal care and pharmaceutical. Visit www.ashland.com to see the innovations we offer.
 
At Ashland our vision is to be a leading, global specialty chemicals company whose inspired and engaged employees add value to all we touch. In fact our people, employees, customers and vendors define who we are. They are the driving force behind everything we do.
 
Not only do we value our customers but we value our employees, and we work to offer them a dynamic and challenging environment. We hold ourselves to high standards at Ashland, and we value integrity and honesty.
 
Ashland has a history of attracting the best people and keeping them. The reasons are simple: industry competitive salary and benefits, pay-for-performance incentive plans and a diverse work environment where employees feel challenged and valued. People come to Ashland and stay. As a growing Fortune 500 specialty chemicals company, we offer opportunities for development and advancement throughout our global organization. Our values define who we are and what we care about as a company. If you are looking for a relationship with a company instead of simply a job, this may be a great fit.

Ashland is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer Minorities/Women/Veterans/Disabled/Gender Identity/Sexual Orientation. 

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability. NOTE:  We do not accept resumes from external staffing agencies or independent recruiters for any of our openings unless we have a signed recruiting agreement in place to fill a specific position.