Job Description
About your role
Role
In this role you will take a comprehensive approach to data analysis from dataset design to data visualizing and presenting findings to drug product development teams. It involves, e.g.:
- Discussing with product developers to understand their aims and planning experimental design.
- Instructing on how data needs to be recorded and performing data wrangling.
- Designing and testing data analysis strategies.
- Creating data analysis solutions that enable data-driven decision making.
- Collaborating with internal clients to design solutions that meet their expectations and presenting the solutions to the end users and teams.
Some Examples Of Typical Tasks Include
- Visualizing data in our BI tool (Spotfire), such as evolution of amorphous content or impurities of drug substance during stability studies.
- Developing a model to predict the effect of granulation parameters on granule size distribution.
- Conducting data analysis on drug substance particle size and its effect on tablet quality attributes to guide specification setting for drug substance particle size.
- Documenting such work and sharing it with team members.
Your Key Responsibilities
- Creating designs of experiments.
- Conducting data analysis for projects and researchers.
- Designing practices and solutions for data visualization to stakeholders.
- Developing and implementing data analysis solutions, predictive models, and algorithms to support drug product development.
- Standardizing, automating and maintaining recurring data processing and analysis procedures.
- Researching and testing new data analysis methods in the field of pharmaceutics.
The location for the role is Espoo and we will support relocation to Finland. You can work flexibly in a hybrid model in accordance with Orion’s relevant guidelines.
What We Offer
This is an opportunity to work in an interdisciplinary environment contributing to development of products that improve the well-being of patients. The science we work with is typically challenging, often complex and always rewarding to solve. There are many opportunities for personal development and making an impact on our ways of working. We provide mentoring opportunities by hiring students and trainees. We have a good working atmosphere based on common values and mutual trust.
At Orion, your work creates true impact and well-being for our customers, patients and society at large. Our culture of friendliness, respect, mutual appreciation and diversity creates a safe working environment where you can strive for excellence.
Please visit our website to find further information about our values and Orion as an employer https://www.orion.fi/en/careers/orion-as-an-employer/ .
Our expectations
The Successful Candidate Is a Team Player With An Entrepreneurial Spirit, Exemplifying Appreciation For Others And Striving For The Best Results. Ideally, You Have
- An applicable university level degree.
- A scientific mindset that drives our development and nurtures a collaborative learning environment.
- Effective and creative problem-solving skills.
- Programming skills (e.g. Python, R, Matlab).
- Expertise in the design of experiments.
- Expertise in statistical, mathematical or data-driven modeling, and experience in all.
- Experience in data wrangling.
- Experience with a BI tool (e.g. Spotfire, PowerBI, Tableau).
- Experience in pharmaceutics or a closely related field (e.g. materials science, solid state chemistry, analytical chemistry, chemical engineering).
How To Apply And Additional Information
We look forward to receiving your CV coupled with a cover letter by 2nd February 2025at the latest.
For more information, please contact Marko Saalasti, Head Of Computational Pharmaceutics, tel. +358 50 966 5396 on Thursday 13 th February between 3-4pm (EET), Thursday 20 th of February 9-10am (EET) and Monday 24 th February 1-2pm (EET) and Friday 28 th February 2-3pm (EET).
Approved medical examination which also includes drug testing is required prior to the employment.
Unit Description
Orion’s pharmaceutical innovations are created within its R&D organization. We employ around 400 top professionals in the field of drug discovery and development. We work globally: in Espoo and Turku in Finland, in Nottingham in England and in New York, NY, USA. Orion R&D and the Innovative Medicines business division are dedicated to making a transformation to become a global player in the pain and oncology therapy areas.
Computational Pharmaceutics is a small team of data-oriented experts situated in the department of Pharmaceutical Sciences in Orion Pharma R&D. Our department develops the drug products and their quality control methods for non-clinical and clinical studies. We generate data on the chemical, physical, physicochemical and manufacturing-related parameters and properties of raw materials and products, such as tablets. The Computational Pharmaceutics team supports the drug development process by creating valuable insights from the data and by providing solutions for data-related challenges in pharmaceutics. We collaborate with a network of experts of drug product and drug substance development, data engineers and data scientists, statisticians, and information management professionals at Orion.
About Us
Orion is a globally operating Finnish pharmaceutical company – a builder of well-being for over a hundred years.
Orion provides meaningful work for more than 3 600 Orionees in Finland and abroad. Orion is known as a responsible and reliable employer where we value each other, strive for the best and build for tomorrow.
We develop, manufacture and market human and veterinary pharmaceuticals and active pharmaceutical ingredients. Orion has an extensive portfolio of proprietary and generic medicines and consumer health products. The core therapy areas of our pharmaceutical R&D are oncology and pain. Proprietary products developed by Orion are used to treat cancer, neurological diseases and respiratory diseases, among others.
