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Senior Scientist Biopharm

Montpellier, France
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Bring your curiosity to a team where deep immunoscience meets cutting-edge innovation. Across oncology, rare diseases, neurology, and vaccines, you’ll work at the intersection of lab science and AI-powered discovery — all while collaborating across boundaries to turn breakthrough ideas into real-world impact. Whether you want to deepen your scientific expertise or grow as a leader, you’ll find the opportunity here.

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Job TitleSenior Scientist Biopharm

  • Location: Montpellier, France

About the Position

Are you ready to shape the future of medicine? The challenge is set to accelerate the race for drug discovery and development to find solutions for patients and their families.

Drug Product Design (DPD) belongs to the Center of Excellence for pharmaceutical development of orally administered synthetic molecules. The department is responsible for the development of preclinical, clinical, and commercial formulations (cycle 0 to cycle 3), from their manufacturing and transfer to pilot for clinical batches, to industrial transfer and submission of the marketing authorization application.

Join our CMC (Chemistry Manufacturing and Control) formulation laboratory. As a Manager in charge of solid dosage form development, you will ensure the design of formulation studies and process development, from laboratory to industrial scale, across all cycles related to Sanofi's product research and development.

About Sanofi:

We’re an R&D-driven, AI-powered biopharma company committed to improving people’s lives and delivering compelling growth. Our deep understanding of the immune system – and innovative pipeline – enables us to invent medicines and vaccines that treat and protect millions of people around the world. Together, we chase the miracles of science to improve people’s lives.

In this context, your responsibilities will include:

  • Conduct lab experiments to characterize the solubility and dissolution characteristics of the drug substance and drug product
  • Develop and interpret In vitro-In Vivo Correlation, iteratively improve a PBBM (Physiologically Based Biopharmaceutics Modelling)
  • Develop and advance concepts of translational biopharmaceutics with a focus on improving predictive capabilities by linking in vitro drug product performance attributes to in vivo performance attributes
  • Design in vitro experiments to evaluate drug products using principles of quality by design and understanding of drug product manufacturing processes and assist in combining leading-edge in vitro and in silico capabilities with drug product design
  • Work in close collaboration with various groups, including global teams in CMC, to address the biopharmaceutical needs of oral, parenteral, transdermal, and other delivery routes
  • Demonstrated abilities to work in cross-disciplinary teams and ability to partner with cross-disciplinary subject matter experts in Pharmaceutical Sciences, Pharmacokinetics & Drug Metabolism, and Clinical Pharmacology departments

About You

Skills you must possess:

Experience(s):

  • The position requires 2 to 3 years of experience in pharmaceutical development acquired in the field biopharmaceutics or/and pharmacokinetics
  • Advanced level in modelling software/(Simcyp), good level in in vitro dissolution, analytical methods

Soft skills and know-how:

  • You enjoy challenges and like working in a team, with a strong interest in science
  • Your organizational skills and attention to detail allow you to ensure reliable and quality results
  • You have good interpersonal skills and a developed sense of communication
  • You possess strong writing and presentation skills

Education:

  • Pharmacist, Engineer with a Master's degree, PhD

Language(s):

  • French, written and spoken English

Why choose to work in our team?

  • Innovate: Create innovative pharmaceutical forms meeting specific patient needs
  • Collaborate: Evolve in a stimulating scientific environment, at the crossroads of various expertise and disciplines
  • Impact: Become a key player in the implementation of digital tools that will transform our development unit

PursueProgress. Discover Extraordinary

Join Sanofi and step into a new era of science - where your growth can be just as transformative as the work we do. We invest in you to reach further, think faster, and do what’s never-been-done-before. You’ll help push boundaries, challenge convention, and build smarter solutions that reach the communities we serve. Ready to chase the miracles of science and improve people’s lives? Let’s Pursue Progress and Discover Extraordinary – together.

At Sanofi, we provide equal opportunities to all regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

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Pursue Progress. Discover Extraordinary.

Join Sanofi and step into a new era of science - where your growth can be just as transformative as the work we do. We invest in you to reach further, think faster, and do what’s never-been-done-before. You’ll help push boundaries, challenge convention, and build smarter solutions that reach the communities we serve. Ready to chase the miracles of science and improve people’s lives? Let’s Pursue Progress and Discover Extraordinary – together.

At Sanofi, we provide equal opportunities to all regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

Watch 'One day at Sanofi' and check out our Diversity Equity and Inclusion initiatives at sanofi.com

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  • Expand your horizons. Grow through curiosity, with support to move, learn, and lead in a culture that champions mentorship, mobility, and bold development.

  • Accelerate results with technology. Harness the power of AI and automation to push scientific boundaries and reimagine what's possible in drug discovery.

  • Impact through inclusive innovation. Help deliver better science and fairer outcomes by driving inclusive research that reaches more people, in more meaningful ways.

  • Turn patient needs into breakthrough science. Drive scientific breakthroughs that start with patient needs – and end in treatments that change lives.

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