Viatris is a global healthcare company uniquely positioned to bridge the traditional divide between generics and brands, combining the best of both to more holistically address healthcare needs globally. With a mission to empower people worldwide to live healthier at every stage of life, we provide access at scale, currently supplying high-quality medicines to approximately 1 billion patients around the world annually and touching all of life's moments, from birth to the end of life, acute conditions to chronic diseases.

We have been included on number of award lists that demonstrate the impact we are making.
 

Our global portfolio includes best-in-class, iconic brand-name products as well as global key brands; generics, including branded and complex generics; and other offerings across a wide range of therapeutic areas. We are committed to helping create healthier communities worldwide through education, outreach and better access to treatment.

For those driven to live their lives with purpose, Viatris helps employees realise their full potential by creating a collaborative culture that fosters courage and resilience. Viatris is more than just a place to work. This is a place to make a difference in the world.

The Role & What You Will Be Doing

The Senior Analytical Manager is accountable for leading an injectable analytical group:  developing, validating methods, characterizing structures of peptides and complex injectables with state of the art techniques. Preparing technical reports to demonstrate structural and impurity profile sameness with innovator product for agency review, supporting product approval. Delivering assigned R&D analytical activities ensuring these are in compliance with regulatory and quality criteria required. This includes supporting new complex injectable product development, troubleshooting technical issues pertaining to registration based products or transfer to Quality Control for products assigned from the Injectable strategic plan.

Every day, we rise to the challenge to make a difference and here’s how the Senior Analytical Manager, R&D role will make an impact:

• Team Leadership – Build and structure the analytical team; supervise, coach, and develop staff; set goals and performance metrics; manage resource planning and budget

• Technical Leadership – Set technical standards aligned with FDA/EMA requirements; drive method development, optimization, and validation; provide expert input on peptide characterization, impurity profiling, and structural elucidation; support formulation/process development; set specifications for shelf-life per ICH guidelines

• Problem-Solving – Troubleshoot stability and method-transfer issues (e.g., transfers to QC or other sites); act as key decision-maker on new APIs and materials

• Operational Excellence – Champion Right First Time (RFT) quality data, Lean Lab practices, and continuous improvement

• EHS & Compliance – Ensure labs, data, and staff meet EHS and GMP standards; partner with Quality and Regulatory teams

• Strong technical expertise in analytical chemistry (peptides/injectables), proven people-management experience, and a track record of regulatory and quality compliance in a pharma R&D setting.

About Your Skills & Experience

For this role, we’re looking for a candidate who has an effective combination of the following qualifications, skills and experiences:

• A minimum of a relevant scientific Bachelor's degree (additional postgraduate qualifications are advantageous) with extensive years of applicable experience in the pharmaceutical industry. However, a combination of experience and/or education will be taken into consideration. 

• Track record of showing how results were delivered through management/leadership of others.

• Capability to set clear goals, communicate these clearly and ensure progress to completion meeting predefined targets.

• Management of resources and budgets

• Development and training of team members.

• Excellent communication skills (verbal and written).

• Proficient computer skills (Excel, word, powerpoint, databases).

• This is a highly autonomous position with direct reporting to the R&D Product Development Senior Manager

At Viatris, we are dedicated to building a truly diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t fully align with every requirement, we still encourage you to apply. You may just be the right candidate for this or other roles.

Benefits at Viatris

At Viatris, we offer competitive salaries, benefits and an inclusive environment where you can use your experiences, perspectives and skills to help make an impact on the lives of others. Some of our benefits include the following on top of a competitive salary:

• Excellent career progression opportunities

• Work-life balance initiatives

• Bonus scheme

• Health insurance

• Pension

Diversity & Inclusion at Viatris

At Viatris, diversity and inclusion are essential to our mission. The diversity we foster in all aspects of our business can be one of our greatest strengths in redefining healthcare not as it is, but as it should be. If you would like to know more about what diversity, equity and inclusion means to us, please visit https://www.viatris.com/en/Careers/Diversity-and-Inclusion

Sustainability at Viatris

Corporate social responsibility is fundamental to the Viatris mission. We work to advance responsible and sustainable operations and leverage our collective expertise to empower people to live healthier at every stage of life, recognizing that our actions affect the stakeholders and communities we serve. To learn more about our efforts, please visit https://www.viatris.com/en/about-us/corporate-responsibility

At Viatris, we offer competitive salaries, benefits and an inclusive environment where you can use your experiences, perspectives and skills to help make an impact on the lives of others. 

Viatris is an Equal Opportunity Employer.