Team Leader - R&D
Julphar
Date: 4 hours ago
City: Ras al-Khaimah
Contract type: Full time

At Julphar, we are on a journey of culture transformation & our mission is to provide a better quality of life for the entire family by delivering best in class solutions and real value with compassion and professionalism.
Our core values: Respect, Collaboration, innovation, Integrity and Compassion - Combined with a focus on diversity, inclusion, and equal opportunities - are key drivers in our aim to make a positive impact on the lives of the patients we serve, enable Talents , create a healthy work environment, and accomplish our goals through world-class research and with the compassion and commitment of our employees.
The Team Leader – New Product Development & Submission will lead and guide the R&D team in developing new pharmaceutical products across multiple dosage forms. This includes solids, liquids, semi-solids, injectables, inhalers, and biosimilars. The role involves project planning, process optimization, regulatory submissions, and technology transfer while ensuring adherence to cGMP/GDP principles.
Key Responsibilities
Qualifications / Functional Knowledge
Our core values: Respect, Collaboration, innovation, Integrity and Compassion - Combined with a focus on diversity, inclusion, and equal opportunities - are key drivers in our aim to make a positive impact on the lives of the patients we serve, enable Talents , create a healthy work environment, and accomplish our goals through world-class research and with the compassion and commitment of our employees.
The Team Leader – New Product Development & Submission will lead and guide the R&D team in developing new pharmaceutical products across multiple dosage forms. This includes solids, liquids, semi-solids, injectables, inhalers, and biosimilars. The role involves project planning, process optimization, regulatory submissions, and technology transfer while ensuring adherence to cGMP/GDP principles.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead, guide, and plan the work of new and existing team members.
- Conduct literature surveys, patent searches, and prepare Prototype Formulation Reports.
- Identify the reference product and initiate procurement processes.
- Develop the Quality Target Product Profile (QTPP) based on literature review and reference product characterization.
- Identify and finalize API and excipient sources for new product development.
- Perform and conclude pre-formulation/drug-excipient compatibility studies for assigned projects.
- Participate in product process optimization, reformulation, and project closure, including report writing.
- Prepare registration dossiers of products for submission to health authorities.
- Plan, design, and perform pharmaceutical experiments using the QbD (Quality by Design) approach.
- Review analytical development data and systematically compile product information.
- Support manufacturing of batches for process optimization, submission, and bioequivalence (BE) studies.
- Knowledge and application of Bioequivalence, Q1/Q2/Q3, IVRT, and IVPT studies.
- Support manufacturing of pilot/scale-up batches with required documentation and execute technology transfer to production.
- Prepare and maintain R&D SOPs in compliance with cGMP and GDP principles.
- Prepare periodic project reports and submit updates to the Manager.
- Collaborate effectively with Analytical R&D, Supply Chain, Production, Quality Control, Quality Assurance, Regulatory Affairs, and Medical Affairs teams to ensure timely project completion.
- Handle eQMS activities related to projects.
- Strong results and process orientation for departmental achievement.
- Analytical mindset with a structured and responsible approach.
- Strong understanding and practice of cost consciousness.
- High attention to detail, accountability, and ownership.
- Excellent team-building, time management, and task management skills.
- Strong oral and written communication skills in English.
- Highly disciplined, motivated, and organized.
Qualifications / Functional Knowledge
- Master’s degree in Pharmacy (preferred) or Bachelor’s degree in Pharmacy.
- Extensive experience (10+ years) in formulation development of pharmaceutical dosage forms for global markets.
- Expert in QbD – Design Expert software application.
- Expert in Minitab software application.
- Significant exposure in addressing regulatory queries for US-FDA, EU, Canada, UAE, MENA, and KSA markets.
- Proven experience handling diverse dosage forms, including injectables, in an R&D environment.
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