Francois Pfaff

Senior Pharmaceutical Project Manager

Salary / Daily rate

Strasbourg, France

Freelance, open to permanent contract

Skills

Project Management (PMO)

Languages

GermanEnglish

About me

Intro

Pharmaceutical project manager with 10+ years leading product development and industrial transfers at top pharma companies like Ethypharm and GSK. Expert in formulation, scale-up, regulatory compliance, and cross-functional team coordination for both solid and liquid dosage forms. Ready to streamline your pharmaceutical projects from concept to market with proven risk management and QbD expertise.

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Work experience

Galenic and industrial project manager

Ethypharm

Jan 2015 - Present

11 years 10 months

Rouen, France

• French and English spoken position; local and international projects; subcontractants coordination • Project management: formulation step, scale-up, development & clinico-regulatory batches, packaging, stability studies and industrial transfer / validation • Coordination / work in collaboration with the different development dept (technicians, analytical devpt, QA, RA...) to the transfer / validation (production, QC, system & operational QA, supply, methods ...) • Presentation of progress/milestones to the Steering Committee • Evaluation of the resources needs: people, equipments and budgets • Redaction of the associated documentation: development / validation plan, protocols, reports, technical parts of the MA file ("Quality by Design" type) • Change management, especially through risk analysis • Theoretical and practical evaluations of processes as part of continuous improvement processes • Liquid forms: nano-milling, oro-dispersible films; solid forms: multi-particulate forms, fluidized air bed, wet granulation with high shear granulator, dry granulation, compression

Industrial project manager

GSK Laboratories

Jan 2014 - Dec 2015

2 years

53100 Mayenne, France

• International projects, English and French spoken position • Change management at the interface between the global project team and the operational team • Change management at the interface between the global project team and the operational team • Implementation of a second source of active ingredient via product / process risks mapping and tests in pilot laboratory as well as in production • Inter-sites products transfers • Recommendations redaction in the frame of risk management • Solid (tablets, sachets, capsules) and liquids (dry syrups) dose forms

R&D project manager (internship)

Pierre Fabre Group

Jan 2013 - Dec 2013

1 year

Région de Toulouse, France

• Coordination of steps of formulation and of industrial transposition, semi-solid forms • Coordination, constitution et finalization of 2 MA files

Galenic and analytical development

UCB

Jan 2012 - Dec 2012

1 year

Brussels, Belgium

• Formulation life cycle and process selection of a solid dose form; laboratory and pilot scales • Prototypes analyzes by HPLC

Galenical development

Faculty of Pharmacy of Strasbourg

Jan 2011 - Dec 2011

1 year

Strasbourg, France

• Implementation of a design of experiments plan for a formulation optimization of oro-dispersible tablets


Education

Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Ingénieurs en Arts Chimiques et Technologiques

Engineer

2010 - 2013

4 years

Faculty of Pharmacy of Strasbourg

Industrial pharmacist

2006 - 2013

8 years

Faculty of pharmacy of Strasbourg

Master I - Formulation and pharmaceutical technologies

2010 - 2011

2 years

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