Analytical Scientist

At Veranova, we believe people are our most important asset, and we are dedicated to building the most talented and diverse workforce in our industry. Our commitment to uncompromising focus on quality, compliance, safety, and excellence in delivery shapes everything we do. We are not just looking for skills; we are seeking innovative individuals who have a mindset open to learning and growth, and a desire to make a difference.

Veranova is a global leader in the development and manufacturing of complex active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) for pharma and biotech customers. With deep technical expertise and impressive flexibility, we develop solutions and processes that support and accelerate innovation.

Join us on our mission to enable current and next-generation therapeutics to improve and save the lives of patients.

Veranova has an exciting opportunity for an Analytical Scientist to join the Pharmorphix® Solid Form Group. Operating from a state-of-the-art facility in Cambridge, UK, we are world leaders in Solid State Science and Particle Engineering. Our services cover a broad range of Enabling Formulation services, including solid-form and physicochemical profiling, salt/polymorph and cocrystal screening and selection, process research and development, crystallization development and scale up of forms.

Our team is ideally placed to help support and accelerate the development of small molecule API’s from late discovery, through clinical studies to commercialisation. We have 11 dedicated solid state and analytical laboratories fully equipped with state of the art instrumentation including but not limited to capabilities in; X-Ray Powder Diffraction (including variable temperature and humidity) Single Crystal Diffraction, Thermal analysis (DSC and TGA), GVS/ DVS, along with multiple crystallisation development tools and PAT tools, including Optimax reactor and Mettler Toledo FBRM, PVM, Renishaw Raman Spectroscopy and a Malvern Mastersizer 3000.

As an Analytical Scientist working in the Solid Form team, you will be supporting a broad range of services, for both external customer project work and internal research projects. As an Analytical Scientist you will act as a Subject Matter Expert in Liquid Chromatography including LC-DAD, MS and CAD. In addition to HPLC, techniques such as Ion Chromatography, Karl Fischer, Gas Chromatography automated pKa/ logP, solubility and online/offline dissolution are also utilised with full training provided.

The Analytical Scientist role will be responsible for multiple analytical services and physicochemical analysis in support of screening and development work as well as preclinical proof of concept formulation development.

This role is a full time lab based role based out of our Cambridge facility in the UK.