
Francois Pfaff
Senior Pharmaceutical Project Manager
Salary / Daily rate
Strasbourg, France
Freelance, open to permanent contract
Skills
Languages
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.
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