Welcome to Next Phase Recruitment! Please see below our current jobs that match your search criteria. For a broader job search please visit the home page or call us on 01403 216216 to discuss career options in other areas of Life Science and Technology.
Welcome to Next Phase Recruitment! Please use the above link to see our current jobs that match your search criteria. For a broader job search please visit the home page or call us on 01403 216216 to discuss career options in other areas of Life Science and Technology.
Analytical Chemist
Analytical Chemists develop and perform methods to identify, quantify, and characterize pharmaceutical substances and formulations. They play a critical role in R&D, quality control, and regulatory submissions.
Typical activities include:
Developing new analytical methods – For impurities, assay, and dissolution using HPLC, GC, MS, and spectroscopy techniques.
Conducting forced degradation and stability testing – To support ICH-compliant studies.
Analyzing formulation components – Ensuring consistency and accuracy in tablet, injectable, or topical drug products.
Documenting in compliance with GMP – Preparing protocols, reports, and contributing to CMC sections of regulatory filings.
Collaborating with formulation and process development teams – To support product lifecycle from early development through commercialization.
This role suits scientists with a strong understanding of chemical properties, instrumentation, and ICH/FDA guidance.
Sittingbourne
Sittingbourne is located in the Swale district of Kent in south east England approximately 45 miles from London, 17 miles from Canterbury, 20 miles from Ashford and 17 from Maidstone. Sittingbourne has direct railway links to London’s Victoria and St Pancras International stations with a journey time of around one hour and road links, particularly to the coastal ports, are also excellent.
The main employers in the Sittingbourne area are in the paper manufacture, cement making and fruit farming industries, Kent is particularly famous for its apples and cherries. In days gone by the Sittingbourne area was also well known for brick making, barge building and water transport. The Dolphin Sailing Barge Museum provides an insight into the barge building industry. New industries growing in the Sittingbourne area include engineering, IT, distribution/logistics and life sciences, the latter particular at the Kent Science Park.
