Director, Pharmaceutical Analytical Sciences

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<p style="text-align:left"><b>Job Description</b></p><p style="text-align:inherit"></p><p><b>Position Overview:</b></p><p>The Pharmaceutical Analytical Sciences (PAS) team is seeking a highly motivated, innovative scientific leader to advance analytical solutions that support our Company's small molecule development pipeline. The PAS Director provides strategic and operational leadership for a team that develops, qualifies, and applies analytical methods to characterize, release, and support stability for clinical drug substance and drug product. This role partners across process and formulation development, CMC and Regulatory, Quality, and manufacturing/commercialization stakeholders to inform control strategy and support regulatory filings, ensuring development programs are supported by scientifically sound, compliant analytical strategies.</p><p></p><p>Success in this role requires strategic thinking, strong people leadership, sound scientific judgment, and excellent communication skills, along with an understanding of the regulatory environment and the ability to influence through data and collaboration.</p><p></p><p><b>Required Leadership Skills:</b></p><ul><li><p>Sets clear direction and priorities aligned to business needs.</p></li><li><p>Leads with a quality mindset and role-models compliance and integrity.</p></li><li><p>Builds inclusive, high-performing teams through coaching and development.</p></li><li><p>Collaborates across functions and influences decisions using data and scientific rationale.</p></li><li><p>Drives continuous improvement and manages risk proactively.</p></li></ul><p></p><p><b>Nature and Scope of Position:</b></p><p>The Director reports to the Executive Director of PAS and leads a Rahway-based team of approximately 10–15 scientists embedded in multidisciplinary development teams

The team is accountable for analytical method development and testing to support chemical and biochemical processes and multiple dosage forms, including parent

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