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What they do

Piramal Pharma develops and manufactures medicines, largely for other companies. Its postings describe Piramal Pharma Solutions as a contract development and manufacturing organisation offering end-to-end services across the drug life cycle, through sites in North America, Europe, and Asia. Named services include drug discovery, process and pharmaceutical development, clinical trial supplies, and commercial supply of active ingredients and finished doses.

What they value

• Delivering a project to time, cost, and specification, which postings state first.
• Formal development method, named in postings as quality by design.
• Documentation, because postings list the technical records by their abbreviations.
• Specialised capability, such as highly potent active ingredients and antibody drug conjugation.
• Applying early. Many postings carry a "Be the First to Apply" line.

Where they hire

Of 264 postings, India holds 186, the United States 54, the United Kingdom 12, Canada nine, and Germany one. Indian sites include Ahmedabad in Gujarat, Pithampur in Madhya Pradesh, Digwal in Telangana, Chennai, and Assam. North American sites include Aurora in Ontario and Bethlehem in Pennsylvania. No posting is remote, because the work is in laboratories and plants.

Teams and roles

The board is organised by division, and Piramal Pharma Solutions carries most of it.

• Formulation and analytical research and development: the largest kind of role, including research associates and senior research associates at the Indian sites.
• Manufacturing and plant operations: roles at Pithampur, Digwal, and Ahmedabad.
• Quality: quality assurance and quality control roles that support good manufacturing practice.
• Finance: including an assistant controller at the Canadian site.
• Commercial and project management: client-facing roles for a contract manufacturer.
• The board spans three continents under one division name, so the same job title can sit in India, the United Kingdom, or North America.

What they look for

Laboratory postings describe the science and the paperwork together. The senior research associate posting for formulation development asks you to deliver projects within timelines, cost, and specification, to develop and manufacture solid oral and other dosage forms, and to run new chemical entity, generic, and line extension projects using quality by design principles. It also asks you to prepare a literature summary and a development report for the assigned product, to execute good manufacturing practice batches, and to prepare technical documents that it names as master formula cards, batch manufacturing records, batch packing records, and stability protocols. That level of naming means a candidate is expected to know the documents by their abbreviations already. Corporate postings, such as the Canadian assistant controller, sit under the same division heading.