Month: March 2024

Analytical Technical Services Support Lead (12 months agency contract)

At VIATRIS, we see healthcare not as it is but as it should be. We act courageously and are uniquely positioned to be a source of stability in a world of evolving healthcare needs.

Viatris empowers people worldwide to live healthier at every stage of life.

We do so via:

Access – Providing high quality trusted medicines regardless of geography or circumstance;
Leadership – Advancing sustainable operations and innovative solutions to improve patient health; and
Partnership – Leveraging our collective expertise to connect people to 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.

 

The Role & What You Will Be Doing

The Analytical Technical Services Support Lead for Respiratory Science and Operations will be providing specialist R&D support to manufacturing, release and stability activities and initiatives in collaboration with external/internal manufacturing sites globally.

 

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

  • Review, monitor and report commercial manufacturing, release and stability activities in collaboration with our internal and external partners.
  • Lead complex investigations into product performance and analytical method issues through to resolution.
  • Provide Analytical support to cross-functional departments to ensure milestones are met (including but not limited to execution of technical transfer, qualification activities, document creation, document review, performing investigations etc).
  • Identify potential problems and coordinate resolution to issues prior to them having an adverse effect on the established business.
  • Maintain appropriate communications within the organization, ensuring employees are informed as to company/department plans and progress.
  • Provide guidance on manufacturing/compliance improvement as needed to assure sites are always prepared for Regulatory Agency inspections.
  • Adherence to all applicable policies and procedures, including those relating to EHS, GMP, GCP, Quality and Compliance, consistent with the role and any associated responsibilities, including people management where applicable.
  • Perform other duties as assigned consistent with the grade of the role

 

About Your Skills & Experience

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’s degree (or equivalent) and demonstrable experience in a cGMP environment is required. Substantial experience of analytical techniques (including chromatographic techniques) used in API and drug product release/stability is required.   However, a combination of experience and/or education will be taken into consideration.
  • Strong analytical, critical thinking and reasoning abilities. Well-developed interpersonal skills with ability to get along with diverse personalities. Must be tactful and mature. Ability to establish credibility and be decisive yet is able to recognize and support the organization’s preferences and priorities. Results-oriented with the ability to balance other business considerations.
  • Able to work autonomously to deliver multiple tasks of high complexity across a portfolio of products, working with internal/external colleagues to plan work across multiple teams to consistently achieve output of high quality results in a timely manner.
  • Able to lead interpretation of complex data to solve analytical and manufacturing issues.
  • Must possess excellent leadership skills that encompass analytical, strategic, critical and systems thinking skills.  Strong communicator with the ability to influence others and solve problems through independent judgment and analysis. Must demonstrate innovation, creativity, and resourcefulness.
  • Must be proficient in Office 365 Applications such as Project, PowerPoint, Excel and Word.
  • Ability to read and interpret comprehensive and intricate research documents.  Ability to write scientific reports and technical correspondence.  Ability to work with executives and communicate abstract concepts.   Ability to present to a high level of the organization and groups outside of the organization.
  • Effective verbal and written communication skills.

 

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.

 

Diversity & Inclusion at Viatris

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. If you would like to know more about what diversity, equity and inclusion means to us, please visit https://www.viatris.com/en/Careers/Diversity-and-Inclusion

 

Sustainability at Viatris

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, recognizing that our actions affect the stakeholders and communities we serve. To learn more about our efforts, please visit https://www.viatris.com/en/about-us/corporate-responsibility

 

At Viatris, we offer competitive salaries, benefits and an inclusive environment where you can use your experiences, perspectives and skills to help make an impact on the lives of others.

Viatris is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Find out more and apply here

Logical Biological Recognized as one of ‘Europe’s Fastest Growing Companies’ due to Customer Centric approach and Quality Commitment

Logical Biological are excited to share a milestone in their journey at Discovery Park. Their relentless dedication to customer centricity and unwavering commitment to quality has led to them securing 148th spot in the prestigious “FT 1000: Europe’s Fastest Growing Companies” listing.

The “FT 1000” list, created in collaboration with Statista, shines a spotlight on the European companies that have shown extraordinary growth. The ranking is determined by analysing the compound annual growth rate (CAGR) in revenue from 2019 to 2022. In a list that is dominated by IT, Software, Construction and Energy/ Utility companies, Logical Biological is proud to be leading the way for science.

Read the full release here.

Customer Operations Coordinator – Warehouse

UK- Sandwich, Kent – office based.

Are you ready for the Most Impactful Work of Your Life?

Signant Health is a global evidence-generation company. We’re helping our customers digitally enable their clinical trial programs, meeting patients where they are, driving change through technology and innovations and reimagining the path to proof.

Working at Signant Health puts you in the very heart of the world’s most exciting sector – a high-growth, dynamic company in an extraordinary industry.

Where do you fit in?

The Customer Operations Coordinator supports internal and external customers to ensure electronic devices are managed effectively throughout the operational process on behalf of client sites managing clinical trials.

As part of our team, your main responsibilities will be:

  • Manage Sales Orders to ensure accurate creation and clarity of information for teams within the configuration center
  • Attend project kick off meetings and client calls, as required
  • Point of contact for Client Services queries or questions
  • Responsible for generating internal export documentation
  • Responsible for ordering printed materials on behalf of clients, as directed by Client Services
  • Liaise with Client Services and external service providers to manage and communicate any shipment delays
  • Promote continual improvement within the Customer Operations area
  • Responsible for managing client expectations on device shipments and inventory
  • Have influence on the financial accountancy of the business by ensuring good practices are followed
  • Able to influence good practice and ensure customer expectations are met, if not exceeded
  • Limited direct Client contact, however; will be expected to be a source of information and expertise to provide best practice guidance

You’ll need to bring:

  • Must be a team oriented person with a “can do” attitude.
  • Experience of fast paced customer services environment.
  • Accurate data entry and computer skills (Excel/Outlook a must)
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • Excellent organization skills with the ability to prioritize.
  • Ability to operate across global time zones & cultures.
  • High School graduation (US) or country equivalent
  • Adherence to site Health & Safety

We will be thrilled if you also have:

  • Experience of clinical trials and the pharmaceutical industry.
  • Experience of a warehouse environment.
  • Experience of operating in global marketplace.

We know that everyone has different wants and needs, which is why along with a highly competitive base salary, we support our people and their loved ones with a variety of perks and benefits. As part of our team, some of the benefits you can expect to receive are:

  • Our Long-Term Incentive Plan, which is unique to the industry
  • The flexibility to work remotely
  • Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance
  • A competitive retirement savings plan
  • Generous paid time off

Does this sound like your cup of tea? Then we’d love to hear from you!

 

Please apply now.

Please note that Signant does not accept unsolicited resumes from Third Party vendors.

At Signant Health, accepting difference isn’t enough—we celebrate it, we support it, and we nurture it for the benefit of our team members, our clients and our community.  Signant Health is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or veteran status.

World Sleep Day is Here and It’s Time to Think About Our Own Sleep

Written by Joel Petch, Senior Lecturer and Academic Lead at the Kent and Medway Medical School, and Dr Andrew Westwood, Consultant Neurologist at Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust. 

 

Humans, like all animals, sleep and we spend a third of our lives doing it; yet only recently have we started to take its importance seriously. It is as fundamental as eating, drinking, and breathing. It helps both our physical and mental health. We continue to learn more and more about the purpose of sleep, and still do not fully understand it, but here are some things we do know about it.

In the last few decades, we have come to realise its importance in consolidating learning and memory formation. The nerves in our brain fire slower and synchronously during sleep, without having to worry about what’s going on in the world around us. It gives our brain the chance to process everything that has occurred during wakefulness and restore our bodies in preparation for the day ahead.

Sleep also has a role of cleaning out the waste products and toxins that accumulate in our brains, and only in the last decade have we discovered that we have a special system called the glymphatic system. This system expands during sleep and appears to help filter the brain of waste products. It’s thought that disruption to this process may be involved within several brain disorders.

Skipping a few hours of sleep for more social media time has its consequences. Lack of sleep disrupts our metabolism and you might notice you are more peckish after a bad night of sleep. This has a knock-on effect of piling on the pounds. It’s commonplace for fitness advice now to highlight how important sleep is – it’s not what you actively do on a treadmill or lifting weights, but we can help reach our goals by allocating enough time for sleep.

We’ve all experienced a bad night of sleep and sometimes people around us can tell – we may become more irritable, moody, and find it more difficult to concentrate on what we are doing. It’s clear that sleep is of critical importance, and worth remembering that a happy brain is a well-rested brain. So, we’ve established the importance of adequate quantity of good quality sleep, lets explore what can be done to enhance your sleep.

While there is no singular approach to ensure you have a restful sleep, there are several adaptations which offer an accumulative effect. These adaptations- referred to as sleep hygiene- are a range of actions which promote sleep and offset wakefulness. Lifestyle adaptations are preferable to medications, particularly in the medium and longer terms.

 

Some considerations to avoid to adversely impact upon sleep:

Avoidance of napping during the day- it may be tempting to have that afternoon snooze, but this will enhance wakefulness at night and eat into your daily sleep quota [which, ideally, we would like to achieve at night].

While many of us feel the need to rely upon coffee to get us from day to day, if you have trouble sleeping, it would be wise to reduce the caffeine in the afternoon and evening. Caffeine, one of the worlds most popular drugs, blocks adenosine within the brain, preventing drowsiness and triggering a temporary sense of alertness. It’s noteworthy that other evening treats also contain caffeine including energy drinks, tea (black and green) and chocolate.

Immediately prior to bed, you would do well to avoid the use of your mobile phones. Social media activities may well lead to a heightened sense of arousal, and the blue light emitted from the screen also impacts upon your ability to sleep. This light, due to its short light wave, can delay the secretion of the sleep hormone, melatonin. This comes from the pineal gland via activation of the superchiasmatic nucleus, our own internal body clock located within the

hypothalamus. So, in the interest of a good sleep, waking feeling refreshed, and best able to engage with your day, please do avoid the pinging of social media prior to bed.

Aristotle postulated that ‘a person awakes from sleep when digestion is complete’, while this is contested, in a nod to Aristotelianism, please do avoid heavy meals before sleeping. Acid reflux and indigestion is a common cause of disrupted sleep. Alcohol is another substance to avoid, this may feel helpful with regards to onset of asleep, but any subsequent sleep is likely to be fragmented. In addition, there this is evidence that alcohol induced sleep also adversely impacts dreaming, a period of sleep critical in memory consolidation and glymphatic clearance.

 

Here are some things you can actively do:

It’s important to develop and maintain a regular sleep routine, this includes timings and patterns of activities. Try to sleep and rise at the same time each day. It’s most important to keep that same wake-up time as this is usually easier for us to do than to guarantee we can sleep at the same time. Ensure you don’t go to bed earlier after a bad night of sleep, keep the same routine regardless. A warm and relaxing bath may also be the perfect approach to prepare to sleep for some, usually 60-90minutes before intending to sleep. Further positive actions include having a sleep-promoting environment- a space which is comfort, quiet, and at a temperature that is lower than during the day. Implementing these actions will have an accumulative effect and heighten the likelihood of a restful night. However, if you are finding it difficult to sleep, be reassured that this is a common, albeit frustrating, circumstance. Further practical advice can be found here: https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/sleep-and-tiredness/how-to-get-to-sleep/

Kent & Medway Women’s Health Innovation Summit unites NHS and industry to close gender health gap

The sold-out event brought together a dynamic group of NHS leaders, clinicians, patients, academics and innovators at Kent and Medway Medical School

 

Kent & Medway’s first ever Women’s Health Innovation Summit took place last week (6th March), bringing together local leaders to revolutionise women’s health and close the gender health gap. 

 

The sold-out summit attracted 130 women’s health experts and was held at The Pears Building at the Kent and Medway Medical School, in Canterbury. The Kent & Medway Women’s Health Summit marks the start of a partnership between NHS Kent and Medway, Kent and Medway Medical School (KMMS), Health Innovation Kent Surrey Sussex (Health Innovation KSS) and leading research and development site, Discovery Park. 

 

Key speakers included Dr. Kate Langford, Chief Medical Officer at NHS Kent & Medway ICB, Dr. Maryann Ferreux, Medical Director, Health Innovation KSS, Professor Chris Holland, Founding Dean, KMMS, Jane Kennedy, Chief Business Officer at Discovery Park and Natasha Walton, Deputy Director Digital Diagnostics & Transformation at NHS England. 

 

Dr Kate Langford, Chief Medical Officer and Women’s Health Champion for NHS Kent and Medway, said: “We’ve heard some very difficult stories about women’s experiences and the data shows that despite living longer, the average woman spends nearly a quarter of her life in poor health, compared with a fifth of men. Partnership is key to change, and Kent and Medway’s first ever Women’s Health Summit demonstrates our commitment to improving the health of women.”

 

Speakers highlighted that addressing women’s health and closing the gender health gap requires a multifaceted approach that acknowledges the complexities of individuals’ experiences. Intersectionality, which considers how various social identities intersect and shape these experiences, is crucial to this.

 

Menopause, mental health and cardiovascular care were topics of key focus at the event, highlighted as areas of unmet need, with alarming statistics revealing that women are twice as likely to die of a heart attack compared to men. Furthermore, a lack of research and data is a driver for the gender health gap, with five times more research conducted on erectile dysfunction, which affects 19% of men, than on premenstrual syndrome, which affects 90% of women. 

 

The aim of the new partnership, the Kent & Medway Innovation Hub, is to create a vibrant innovation ecosystem that fosters breakthrough ideas, empowers people and our workforce, and positively impacts the health and well-being of individuals and communities. The learnings from this event, including the findings from the breakout sessions on menopause, mental health and cardiovascular care, will play a key role in codesigning the hub and better understanding the problems that need to be solved in the system. The findings will also inform the creation of a women’s health hub in Kent & Medway, as part of the national women’s health strategy.

 

Also launched at the summit was a special edition of Discovery Park’s growth programme for early stage businesses, ‘Discovery Spark’. This offers support for new businesses working in FemTech and women’s health, with tailored mentoring and learning. Open for applications now, accepted companies will compete to win a support package worth over £50K, including 1 year of lab or office space at Discovery Park, alongside invaluable support from healthcare partners, Barclays Eagle Labs and six specialist prize partners. 

 

Summit speaker Dr MaryAnn Ferreux, Medical Director at Health Innovation KSS, said: “Collaboration will be key to designing and delivering revolutionary healthcare for women. The summit showcased the vibrant healthcare innovation ecosystem in Kent and Medway, from students and clinicians, to academics, to start-ups like Adora and Feebris and big companies like AWS. Discovery Spark is the next step in this journey, providing valuable support to promising start-ups improving health outcomes for women.” 

 

To enter Discovery Spark, start-up companies must be working in FemTech or addressing Women’s Health with a demonstrated proof of concept and have raised less than £1 million in investment. The programme is open to both male and female founders. The deadline for applications is 5th April, with the next cohort beginning on 21st May. 

 

Applicants should enter on the Discovery Park website, which also includes terms and conditions. https://discovery-park.co.uk/lp/discovery-spark/

Director Respiratory R & D Project Leader (12 months agency contract)

At VIATRIS, we see healthcare not as it is but as it should be. We act courageously and are uniquely positioned to be a source of stability in a world of evolving healthcare needs.

Viatris empowers people worldwide to live healthier at every stage of life.

We do so via:

Access – Providing high quality trusted medicines regardless of geography or circumstance;
Leadership – Advancing sustainable operations and innovative solutions to improve patient health; and
Partnership – Leveraging our collective expertise to connect people to 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.

 

The Role & What You Will Be Doing

We have an exciting new opportunities in our global respiratory R&D group at Director level. This role will play a central part within Viatris in creating new respiratory products by applying strategic leadership and technical expertise to development of our portfolio of NCE and generic products. There are opportunities for candidates with specialised expertise of inhaled products, including pressurised metered dose inhalers, dry powders for inhalation, and solutions / suspensions for nebulization. Candidates with specialisation as Analytical Scientists, Formulation & Process Scientists, and related disciplines are needed with experience in both Project Leadership and Technical Leadership. Candidates with substantial experience in 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 Respiratory R&D Project Leads Director Level will make an impact:

  • Lead the delivery of scientific activities to take new respiratory products to clinical studies and commercialization
  • As a member or leader of multidisciplinary project teams, support the planning and execution of experiments to generate scientific understanding indevelopment of analytical methods, formulations and/or processes.
  • Ensure the smooth transfer of project analytical methodologies or manufacturing processes to commercial manufacturing facilities.
  • Lead the review and 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.
  • Review and approve documentation (e.g. protocols, reports, procedures, specifications) as required.
  • Lead the delivery of R&D input to investigational and commercial drug product regulatory filings.

 

 

About Your Skills & Experience

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, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Forensics) or equivalent.
  • Substantial experience of the application of analytical or formulation science to product development, including the development of inhalation products.
  • Substantial experience in the management of scientific activities to achieve project deliverables.
  • Substantial experience in authoring GMP documentation and preparing regulatory submissions
  • 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 planwork to consistently achieve output of high quality results in a timely manner.
  • Has a good understanding of cGMP requirements in support of clinical studies and product registration.
  • Substantial experience of the specific challenges involved in the development, approval and commercialization of inhaled products.
  • 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.

 

Benefits at Viatris

At Viatris, we offer competitive salaries, benefits and an inclusive environment where you can use your experiences, perspectives and skills to help make an impact on the lives of others. Emphasis on Health & Wellness programmes

 

Diversity & Inclusion at Viatris

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. If you would like to know more about what diversity, equity and inclusion means to us, please visit https://www.viatris.com/en/Careers/Diversity-and-Inclusion

 

Sustainability at Viatris

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, recognizing that our actions affect the stakeholders and communities we serve. To learn more about our efforts, please visit https://www.viatris.com/en/about-us/corporate-responsibility

 

At Viatris, we offer competitive salaries, benefits and an inclusive environment where you can use your experiences, perspectives and skills to help make an impact on the lives of others.

Viatris is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

 

Apply and Find Out More

FemTech and Women’s Health start-ups urged to join Discovery Park’s growth programme, offering a support package worth over £50K

The Special Edition of the ‘Discovery Spark’ growth programme was announced at Kent & Medway Women’s Health Innovation Summit

Discovery Park, Kent’s thriving life science community, has launched a special edition of their growth and support programme, Discovery Spark, for start-ups in FemTech and Women’s Health. 

 

The programme was unveiled at Kent & Medway Women’s Health Innovation Summit, which brought together NHS leaders, clinicians, patients, academics and innovators to revolutionise women’s health and close the gender health gap. The event highlighted menopause, mental health and cardiovascular care as areas of unmet need, with women twice as likely to die after a heart attack compared to men. Despite living longer, the average woman spends nearly a quarter of her life in poor health compared with a fifth of men. A lack of research and data is a driver for the gender health gap, with five times more research conducted on erectile dysfunction, which affects 19% of men, than on premenstrual syndrome, which affects 90% of women. 

 

Igniting the growth of early-stage businesses solving women’s health challenges, the special edition Discovery Spark programme is now open for applications. The programme offers tailored mentoring and support for start-ups, preparing founders for success in investment pitches. Companies will compete to win a support package worth over £50K, including 1 year of lab or office space at Discovery Park, alongside invaluable support from healthcare partners, Barclays Eagle Labs and six specialist prize partners. 

 

Discovery Spark is led by Dr Renos Savva, Head of Innovation at Discovery Park and a recognised scientist, entrepreneur and venture development lead. Speaking about the new programme, Renos said: “Discovery Spark gives early-stage start-ups the tools for healthy business foundations, providing expert advice and personal development, all designed with securing investment in mind. The UK has the largest female gender health gap in the G20, so it’s important to supercharge exciting businesses aiming to solve challenges in female health.”

 

Organised as three immersive sessions held between May and July, Discovery Spark takes place at Discovery Park and includes overnight accommodation for those taking part. Each session lasts for two-days, covering people, teams and brand, presentation and communication, and business metrics and markets.  

 

Dr MaryAnn Ferreux, Medical Director at Health Innovation KSS, a partner of the FemTech and Women’s Health Special Edition Discovery Spark, said: “Collaboration and partnership will be key to designing and delivering revolutionary healthcare for women. The summit showcased the vibrant healthcare innovation ecosystem in Kent and Medway, from students and clinicians, to academics, to start-ups like Adora and Feebris and big companies like AWS. Discovery Spark is the next step in this journey, providing valuable support to promising start-ups improving health outcomes for women.” 

 

To enter, start-up companies must be working in FemTech or addressing Women’s Health with a demonstrated proof of concept and have raised less than £1 million in investment. The programme is open to both male and female founders. The deadline for applications is 5th April, with the next cohort beginning on 21st May. 

 

Applicants should enter on the Discovery Park website, which also includes terms and conditions.

https://discovery-park.co.uk/lp/discovery-spark/

 

Discovery Park is committed to supporting women in business and innovative organisations transforming women’s health. Contact Discovery Park for more information on business support and investment opportunities currently available.

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