Location: London, UK

Salary: £50-62k

Employment type: Permanent

Experience level: 7-10 years

About the company 🏙

Simple Pharma Group is an investment group dedicated to allowing stranded innovation to exist and thrive within the life sciences industry. The group’s purpose is to improve patient access to medicines globally by providing the best home for proven pharma products. The group is formed of two sister companies with distinct strategies: Androlabs and Simple Pharma.

Androlabs is a group portfolio company that aims to build a globally significant pharmaceutical company solely dedicated to men’s health. Established in February 2021 with the acquisition of Testavan® and Vitaros®, Androlabs has developed a deep expertise in men’s health. It markets and promotes the two products across 20 countries and has two development products scheduled to launch in 2024 and 2026.

With Simple Pharma, we are building the first end-to-end operations partner to pharma companies who wish to focus on their core business. Given the highly regulated environment in which pharma companies operate, operations are specialised and complex, meaning that product owners often default to risk-averse, manual ways of working. By channeling our core purpose into these activities, we relieve pharma companies of these obligations and deliver a better service than they could manage for themselves.

We have grown our team to around 30 people across 5 countries. We are profitable, growing, and are participating in a market that is ripe for new thinking. Our diverse team has a range of top academic and professional experience from institutions such as Oxford, INSEAD, Imperial, UCL, McKinsey, Latham & Watkins, PwC, EY, Johnson & Johnson, Accenture, Entrepreneur First, and others.

The role 👩👨

The CMC/Innovation Manager will be responsible for overseeing manufacturing and development projects, including product development and redevelopment, site transfers, and manufacturing process improvements. This includes managing the regulatory, technical and clinical strategy to maximise impact and value creation, minimize execution risk, and ensure the highest standards of effectiveness, quality and patient safety are achieved.  

Mostly aligned to Androlabs and its portfolio of transdermal and hormonal products, the CMC/Innovation Manager will from time to time be expected to work on Tithonia wide projects.  

What you will be doing ⚙️

• Assemble, lead and manage cross-functional teams of experts and providers to ensure successful delivery of manufacturing projects and tech transfers. 
• Develop and implement regulatory, development and clinical strategies in collaboration with internal and external stakeholders. 
• Specify target product profiles. 
• Oversee product development and redevelopment, ensuring alignment with the target product profile and other company goals and regulatory requirements. 
• Ensure compliance with all relevant regulations and standards across all projects. 
• Drive innovation in manufacturing processes and product development to enhance efficiency and effectiveness. 
• Monitor industry trends and advancements to keep the company at the forefront of pharmaceutical innovation. 

Requirements

Who you are 📜

• Relevant Bachelor’s or Master’s degree 

• 7 to 12 years’ experience in pharmaceutical manufacturing, technology transfer, and product development. 

• Outstanding project management, problem-solving and written communication skills. 

• Self-starter, proud to deliver in autonomy ahead of deadlines and beyond stated objectives. 

• Persistence. 

• Experience managing at least ~6-10 material projects aligned to the subject matter.  

• Strong understanding of scientific data sources of robustness.  

• Experience conducting technical clinical studies (PK, toxicity) and using well-established used regulatory pathways is a plus. However, pharmaceutical industry experience is a consideration but not required. 

• Experience sourcing, negotiating contracts and managing contracted parties. 

• Ability to work collaboratively with diverse teams and stakeholders. 

Benefits

• Competitive salary £50-62k based on experience (please note that your salary may vary if you are not based in the UK)
• Employee stock option award on joining
• Private health and dental insurance
• Work from anywhere for the month of August
• Use 7 get 3 free holiday days in August
• 2pm Friday finishes in July & August
• Regular team events
• A high performance, ambitious roster of colleagues
• Ample training and investment in the team
• The chance for rapid professional and personal development, and a springboard into several career paths

The Simple Pharma Group is a meritocracy - we hire based on people's skills, experiences, and potential to contribute to our success.