Investigator, Discovery Pharmaceutics

ViiV Healthcare is looking for a Scientific Investigator (Grade 7) to join the Discovery Pharmaceutics team based in Branford, CT as a Formulator and Project Contributor focused on discovering new medicines for the treatment, prevention, and cure of HIV. The candidate will ensure project appropriate implementation of pharmaceutics-related studies to drive the development of oral and long-acting injectable medicines, both small molecules and biologics, to enable project progression to candidate selection. This laboratory-based role will design, execute, analyze, and report formulation-related studies for ViiV Drug Discovery programs. The role requires collaborating across multi-disciplinary matrix teams and will also contribute to innovation, performance, and success of the ViiV Discovery portfolio objectives. The candidate will also seek and bring new technologies and innovations to our discovery pharmaceutics platform through engagement with external academic and industrial collaborators.

ViiV offers flexibility with on-site and remote working based on lab work demand. 

This role will provide the opportunity to lead key activities and to progress your career. These responsibilities include:

• Provide Pharmaceutics strategy and laboratory support to various staged Discovery projects from early lead optimization to candidate selection.
• Efficiently manage time and prioritize project requests to ensure optimal support of projects across Discovery.
• Engage with and seek external collaborators to enhance ViiV’s Pipeline and the use of latest pharmaceutics technologies.
• Responsible for delivering high-quality written contributions to technical documents, reports, and maintaining electronic lab notebooks.
• Develop and maintain excellent working relationships with key stakeholders on Discovery project teams to ensure strategic alignment.

Why you?

Basic Qualifications:

We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:

• MS Degree 3+ years of Pharmaceutics experience such as: formulation work, physicochemical property assessment, solid state characterization, and evaluation of drug delivery technologies.
• OR PhD in Pharmaceutics or Pharmaceutical Sciences
• Experience with solid-state compound characterization and physicochemical property assessment.
• Experience in design and execution of formulation studies with appropriate analyses and interpretation.
• Experience in managing project resources and budgets.
• Experience working in multi-disciplinary or matrixed team environment.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate.
• Experience in providing Pharmaceutics strategy and support through formulation design and implementation to enable project progression, either in drug discovery and/or development.

Please visit GSK US Benefits Summary to learn more about the comprehensive benefits program ViiV offers US employees. All ViiV employees receive the same benefits options and plans as GSK employee.

Why Us?

At ViiV Healthcare, we will not rest until we leave no person living with HIV behind. Until the 39 million people living with HIV is down to zero, we will continue searching for new ways to limit the impact of HIV. 

We are the only pharmaceutical company solely focused on combating, preventing, and ultimately eradicating HIV and AIDS. At ViiV Healthcare, we do things differently. Born out of a partnership between GSK and Pfizer in 2009, with Shionogi joining in 2012, we are determined to help end the HIV epidemic. We are guided by our mission to leave no person living with HIV behind and it is this mission that unites our employees located across the globe. We combine expertise in research, manufacturing, policy and more to push the boundaries of what people think is possible in HIV treatment and care. As a result of our connection with GSK, we are able to draw on their proud history and resources. This means that you would receive all the employee benefits offered by GSK.

Living our mission of leaving no person living with HIV behind means keeping inclusion and diversity at the heart of everything we do – from our breakthrough innovation, to our diverse portfolio of medicines as well as the work we do to partner with HIV communities. Having a diverse team and a truly inclusive culture where we’re all able to be ourselves and feel like we belong will make us an even stronger team, better able to perform as a business and deliver on our mission to leave no person living with HIV behind.

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