Stability Specialist

Stability Specialist

Castlebar, Ireland

Job ID

JR - 198727

Category

General R&D

Date posted

10/22/2026

Location

Castlebar, Ireland

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Vantive is a vital organ therapy company on a mission to extend lives and expand possibilities for patients and care teams everywhere. For 70 years, our team has driven meaningful innovations in kidney care. As we build on our legacy, we are deepening our commitment to elevating the dialysis experience through digital solutions and advanced services, while looking beyond kidney care and investing in transforming vital organ therapies. Greater flexibility and efficiency in therapy administration for care teams, and longer, fuller lives for patients— that is what Vantive aspires to deliver.

We believe Vantive will not only build our leadership in the kidney care space, it will also offer meaningful work to those who join us. At Vantive, you will become part of a community of people who are focused, courageous and don’t settle for the mediocre. Each of us is driven to help improve patients’ lives worldwide. Join us in advancing our mission to extend lives and expand possibilities.

The Drug Products and Sciences R&D Stability team supports research and development projects for new and existing products. The Stability Specialist, applies sound chemistry and stability planning expertise to identify and resolve stability indicating characteristics. The effective integration of chemistry and stability enables establishment of shelf life for new or existing products manufactured for rapidly growing markets and allows for the qualification of product changes on a global scale.

The Stability Specialist develops and designs strategies and makes recommendations that are non-routine to address technical, regulatory, and business requirements.

Duties and responsibilities:

• Represent R&D–Stability on project teams as a key member of the project teams’ goals and success.
• Craft and implement stability strategy plans for new product development and sustaining projects.
• Design GMP stability studies used to establish expiration dating for product development.
• Contribute to the development of technical justifications for expiration dating for new or modified products and the defence of expiration dating recommendation to key business partners.
• Provide valuable input to stability assessments and requirements for new products and/or current product changes.
• Ensure the right methods and specifications are available for stability, compatibility, and release testing. Ensure that the methods are appropriate for the product design over shelf life.
• Demonstrate the ability to identify risks, issues, and opportunities for improvement of existing methods, technologies, and approaches. Provide sound scientific rationale.
• Interact with manufacturing facilities to acquire information related to test methods and specifications.
• Author, review and verify technical data, protocols, and reports.
• Act as study director for stability projects under guidance of senior Stability team members.
• Perform stability study administration activities on LIMS including study building and review, identification of product test data requiring modification, and data entry.
• Develop new and/or optimize existing processes and procedures to enhance stability related practices.
• Participate in investigations that correspond to atypical or out-of-specification/out-of-trend test results. Review data and author technical evaluations that characterize the stability trending of suspect data.
• Leverage critical thinking to drive the investigation to conclusions based on sound scientific principles.
• Optimally plan, coordinate, and oversee the progress of multiple Stability related projects, budgets, and activities working with global teams and CROs as applicable.
• Contribute to and/or take lead author role for stability sections intended for submission to regulatory authorities. Use computerized systems to retrieve, evaluate, summarize data for reporting.

Education and experience required:

• Bachelor’s Degree, Master’s or PhD with experience in a relevant scientific subject area.
• Ability to organize complex information and demonstrated attention to detail.
• Apply a logical, methodical approach in independently solving problems, developing solutions, and making sound recommendations.
• Experience working with sophisticated databases.
• Possess relevant computer and technical skills including word processing, spreadsheets, table and graph generation, and use of databases and reporting tools.
• Good technical writing skills.
• Possess proficiency in analytical chemistry including theoretical knowledge and practical experience.
• Contribute to efforts beyond own scope of responsibilities to ensure project milestones are met.
• Functional understanding of FDA, ISO, and Quality systems.
• Willingness to work in a team environment across multiple time zones and demonstrates an inclusive attitude.

What Vantive can offer to you:

• Join a new and growing R&D team based at our Castlebar site.
• A permanent contract with a stable and secure work environment.
• A comprehensive benefits package, including private medical insurance, company pension scheme, and annual bonus scheme.
• A collaborative and dynamic work environment.
• Access to state-of-the-art equipment and technology.
• Recognition and reward for outstanding performance.

Reasonable Accommodation

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