Senior Scientist (f/m/d) – GMP Analytical Services

Purpose of your Job

As a Senior Scientist in GMP Analytical Services at Coriolis Pharma, you will leverage your scientific expertise to successfully guide complex customer projects within a GMP-regulated environment, ensuring that scientific objectives are met within quality and regulatory frameworks.

In this role, you will contribute to our state-of-the-art analytical services, applying advanced technologies to support the research and development of biopharmaceuticals and innovative drugs. You will be an integral part of our contract research organization—collaborating closely with and learning from our scientific operations teams—to enable our clients on their journey of developing cutting‑edge therapeutics.

Join Coriolis Pharma – a science-driven service provider shaping the future of biopharmaceutical innovation!

Your Responsibility

Project Ownership & Scientific Expertise:

• Responsible—together with the project team—for the successful development and execution of analytical services for our customers worldwide.
• Act as subject matter expert, supporting client project acquisition and execution with your expertise to ensure high‑quality services.
• Lead analytical strategy and actively contribute to experimental execution in alignment with SOPs, pharmacopoeias, and project‑specific requirements.
• Apply laboratory techniques such as HPLC, particle analytics, and dynamic light scattering (DLS).
• Integrate scientific knowledge and a deep understanding of regulatory standards to address evolving business needs, including new areas and novel molecular modalities.

Quality & Regulatory Compliance:

• Ensure full adherence to QA and QC processes across all analytical activities.
• Manage deviations, CAPAs, change controls, and out‑of‑specification (OOS) results in compliance with regulatory guidelines.

Collaboration & Process Excellence:

• Collaborate closely with Coriolis teams (e.g., Business Development, Finance, Technical Support) to ensure seamless project execution.
• Contribute to cross‑functional initiatives, driving both scientific and operational improvements.
• Support preparation of validation protocols, reports, and testing procedures.

Project Leadership & Knowledge Transfer:

• Serve as project leader for client projects, overseeing planning, method implementation, development, characterization, data evaluation, and reporting.
• Share your expertise with Coriolis team members and represent Coriolis’ scientific excellence within the broader scientific community.

What you need to succeed

• University degree in analytical chemistry, pharmaceutical sciences, (bio)chemistry, or a related field; a PhD related to (U)HPLC method development or surfactant quantification is preferred.
• Minimum 5 years of industry experience (with PhD in a relevant field) or 9 years (without PhD) in biopharmaceutical characterization by LC (RP, SEC, IEX) using UV, FLD, RI, or CAD detection.
• Professional experience in a GMP‑controlled environment with in‑depth understanding of GMP regulations, quality management systems, and compliance standards.
• Proven expertise in GMP analytical method development, validation, characterization, and technology transfer for drug product development of biopharmaceuticals.
• Demonstrated project management experience with strong skills in resource management, multitasking, prioritization, and risk management.
• Hands‑on, proactive mindset with openness to new ideas and tasks; lead by example with a can‑do attitude.
• Team‑oriented with strong motivational and interpersonal skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English.

Why to join Coriolis?

Let’s formulate innovation together… Our success & development is created by the people working together @Coriolis. We put People first! That’s why we have a growth mindset, and value personality, collaboration and community to create an empowering and inspiring working space with focus on quality and customers.

We would like to grow together with you! Let’s continue building and creating the future now! Join our Team of currently around 200 employees. In a highly motivated and interdisciplinary team, we provide you with a great chance to increase your experience. We offer an attractive work space at the Martinsried site. Let’s make a difference together!

Coriolis Pharma is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes applications from all qualified individuals regardless of ethnicity, sex, citizenship or gender identity, color, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation, marital status, age or individual preferences. Different backgrounds, experiences and ideas push us further and raise the bar.

Thank you for your interest! We look forward to receiving your application documents. Please use our career portal exclusively for this purpose. We would like to support you from the very beginning to shape your development possibilities here at Coriolis. For questions or further information, please visit our website or contact us directly.

We are looking forward to your application!

Your Contact

Dominik Schwemmer
Senior Business Partner - Talent & Development
People, Organization & Culture Unit
Coriolis Pharma Research GmbH
Phone: +49 (0) 89 – - 0
Fraunhoferstraße 18 b, 82152 Martinsried