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Senior Principal Scientist - Veterinary Clinical Development
Job Introduction
Thanks for checking out our vacancy, we’re delighted you want to learn more about Dechra!
Dechra is an international specialist veterinary pharmaceuticals products business. Our expertise is in the development, manufacture, and sales and marketing of high quality products exclusively for veterinarians worldwide.
Here at Dechra, our values are embedded within our culture and thrive within our family of over 2500 colleagues globally. From manufacturing to marketing, (D)edication, (E)njoyment, (C)ourage, (H)onesty, (R)elationships and (A)mbition are at the heart of our everyday operations and the way we do business.
The Opportunity
A Principal Scientist / Senior Principal Scientist within the Global Clinical team will work on a diversity of US, EU or Global research and development projects for veterinary medicines to obtain regulatory approval(s) in Dechra’s target markets. They may act as the Project Lead (if suitably experienced) and / or the technical lead for all efficacy aspects of one or more development projects. As such, they will lead and / or work within a team planning, designing, executing and reporting the programme of studies required to determine and demonstrate efficacy.
Role Responsibility
So, what will you be doing? This role has a broad and varied scope and the successful candidate will have responsibility for duties including :
Work closely with multiple different functions on multidisciplinary teams (and with experience, may be asked to lead such R&D project teams), with colleagues from across the Dechra organization including portfolio management, global product development, regulatory affairs, strategic and local marketing and manufacturing.
Design and establish pre-clinical drug candidate screening processes for research programmes, or to design and prosecute the development studies required for regulatory submissions to bring products to market.
Collaborate with third parties (CRO’s, expert consultants, clinical practitioners and key opinion leaders), writing study protocols, interpreting, reporting and presenting study data and assembling the technical sections of regulatory submissions.
Operating with a team of multi-disciplinary colleagues to plan and design a programme of studies required to demonstrate the safety and efficacy for one or more of Dechra’s drug development candidates to support veterinary product registration in US and / or Europe.
Planning, designing, executing and reporting the studies (laboratory and field) required to determine and demonstrate the efficacy of a drug development candidate.
Investigating new diseases and potential therapies to design drug development programmes to determine efficacy.
Provision of technical clinical support to Dechra commercial colleagues as and when requested to do so to support Dechra’s portfolio of marketed products.
Support Dechra’s existing portfolio of marketed products with detailed scientific and technical knowledge on request.
The Ideal Candidate
Here at Dechra we pride ourselves on being an inclusive employer and we embrace candidates from all walks of life. We’re particularly excited to hear from those who have / are :
- Graduate veterinarian (D.V.M., B.V.Med., or equivalent).
Candidates with a biomedical or animal science degree and significant experience in veterinary drug development and registration will also be considered.)
Desirable :
