Medisca is a global company leveraging strong partnerships to serve healthcare professionals across diverse wellness disciplines. Offering extensive and essential solutions - including pharmaceutical ingredients and service, mixing technology manufacturing, analytical testing, and education – Medisca is bridging the gaps in healthcare with an unwavering commitment to precision, innovation, and societal impact.
The Compounding Specialist, Compounding Services will be a resource to internal and external clients, for all compounding-related needs. The role will involve providing support to clients on technical and formulation inquiries, specific niche areas of practice, current standards of practice, and more, as well as providing direction to assist pharmacists with either introducing or expanding the practice of compounding in their business. This is an exciting opportunity to join us as we expand our Compounding Support team and we're looking for a self-motivated, detail orientated pharmacist or technician who is determined to provide exceptional advice and support to our ever-growing client base.
Responsibilities & Duties:
Review Formulas
- Review of non-sterile and sterile formulations, as per client requests.
- Evaluate the client request to ensure safety, therapeutic efficacy, justification, appropriateness of the requested route of administration, active ingredient concentration, dosage and relevance to the clinical diagnosis as provided by the compounder.
- Verify that formulas are based on concrete scientific evidence thorough primary literature search.
- Verify physiochemical compatibility, suitability and stability of APIs and excipients in formulation.
- Verify mathematical calculations, detailed preparatory steps, ingredient sensitivities, auxiliary labels, legal parameters and more.
Respond to client inquiries
- Receive, interpret and respond to client compounding inquiries; through email or telephone communication.
- Provide technical expertise on troubleshooting day-to day-compounding issues.
- Provide support in terms of mathematical calculations, base selection, ingredient incompatibilities and suitability, formulation chemistry, API-specific monographs, and more.
- Understand and consult on recommended and proprietary technologies, devices, equipment and ready bases for pharmacy compounding.
- Provide consultation support regarding specific niche areas of practice, including but not limited to peptides, hormone restoration therapy, veterinary compounding, pain management and dermatology.
- Provide consultation support regarding current standards of practice, regulatory inquiries, facility workflow and more.
- Address escalated client inquiries, problems or situations.
- Perform scientific literature searches to support internal/external requests and compile researched literature into a standardized template for distribution to clients.
Quality System
- Stay up to date on the standards of practice and regulations governing the practice of pharmaceutical compounding; on State/Provincial and Federal levels.
- Assist in the development of SOPs, Policies & Procedures related to formulation development and approval.
- Assist in the development of SOPs, Policies & Procedures related to the practice of pharmaceutical compounding.
- Participate in continuous quality improvement of formulation database.
Additional duties may be called upon
Qualifications:
- Educational background - BS Pharmacy, PharmD or Pharmacy Technician
- Experience as a Pharmacist with 3 - 5 years of experience in the pharmaceutical compounding industry (Preferable 1 year + experience in a Compounding Pharmacy lab); Pharmacy Technician – At least ten (10) years of experience in the pharmaceutical compounding industry (Preferable experience in a Compounding Pharmacy lab)
- Peptide Formulation and Education experience (Sterile and Non-Sterile)
- 503A, 503B and cGMP experience.
- Knowledge of regulations and guidelines of the following is considered an asset: USP, NAPRA, FDA, Health Canada, state and provincial boards of pharmacy.
- Experience in training and/or teaching to pharmacists and lab technicians is considered an asset
- Knowledge of the Microsoft Office suite (Word, Outlook, Teams, PowerPoint and Excel) required
- Excellent communication skills; Fluent in English (oral & written) required
- Strong work ethic and judgment, empathy and discretion in their work
- Excellent time management, planning and organizational skills.
- Advanced interpersonal skills and the ability to maintain a professional and positive image.
- Results oriented and takes initiative with the ability to learn and adapt quickly.
- Proven abilities to apply good judgement, ethical practice and decision-making skills.
Travel: Up to two (2) weeks per year to attend tradeshows, programs, training sessions.
What’s in it for you…
We invest time and resources into making sure Medisca is as good as the people we hire.
- Balance Your Life – PTO, vacation policy and paid statutory holidays
- Invest in your health – Group Benefit plan and health savings account
- Your Future is Bright – Opportunities to learn and grow within Medisca
- Save for your Future – 401k plan retirement
- Help us grow – Employee Referral Program
- We like to have fun – company events throughout the year
- Full time positions - 40 hour work week
We thank all applicants for their interest; however, only candidates to be interviewed will be contacted.
We are an equal opportunity employer.
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