Your role
We are looking for a pharmaceutical expert to join our team in Espoo or Turku. Your area of expertise is CMC (Chemistry, Manufacturing, Control) documentation (tasks related to marketing authorization and change management documentations).
Responsibilities
You will serve as a pharmaceutical expert in the following tasks:
- Variations related to products together with other variation experts
- Marketing authorization applications (quality sections)
- Annual reports
- Answering to additional questions from partners and authorities
- Close daily collaboration with experts from registration, Quality Assurance, India CMC team and your own unit.
Position is temporary until 31.3.2027 and working model is hybrid.
What you can expect from us
We offer a diverse and varied role in a successful company, along with opportunities for professional development. You will work in a multidisciplinary and international environment with various stakeholders. You will have the opportunity to utilize and grow your expertise through a diverse product range and exciting projects. Keeping the products at the market and supporting the growth by applying products to new markets is important for Orion. You will be supported by a skilled and friendly team with good team spirit and helpful colleagues. You will have senior-level experts as colleagues and receive comprehensive onboarding for the role.
At Orion, your work creates true impact and well-being for our customers, patients and society at large. Our culture of friendliness, respect, mutual appreciation and diversity creates a safe working environment where you can strive for excellence. We offer a wealth of career paths and development opportunities that support the development of innovative solutions and improving the quality of life.
Please visit our website to find further information about our values and Orion as an employer https://www.orion.fi/en/careers/orion-as-an-employer/.
What are we looking for?
You hold a suitable higher education degree (e.g., Master in Science (Pharm.), chemistry). Knowledge of marketing authorization (CMC) documentations is considered as an advantage. You are the person we are looking for if you have a genuine interest and desire to work closely with marketing authorization documentation as a pharmaceutical expert and want to learn more about them. This role offers you a unique opportunity to do so.
As a person, you are proactive, solution-oriented, innovative, and have a positive attitude towards challenging tasks. You work naturally both independently and in a team, and you have good networking and communication skills. You are ready to challenge yourself in diverse tasks and want to develop yourself and your skills. You manage your tasks even when you have multiple assignments simultaneously. You communicate fluently in Finnish and English (written and spoken).
How to apply
Please apply as soon as possible through our system, but no later than 8.5.2026. For more information about the position, please contact Team Leader Sirkku Roos phone 050 966 3860 (May 4 at 14-15). We typically review applications already during the application period and may start interviewing candidates before the application deadline. Therefore, we invite you to send your application as soon as possible.
Approved medical examination which also includes drug testing is required prior to the employment. We will also carry out a security clearance prior to the employment for the selected person.
Your new team
Orion's Global Operations covers the entire pharmaceutical manufacturing process, from sourcing of raw materials to the manufacture of products, packaging and delivery to customers. We are also responsible for the industrialization of new products and product life cycle management.
In Global Operations we have approximately 1,600 professionals working in Production, our external supplier network (Externally Sourced Operations) and Fermion Oy (API manufacturing and marketing). In addition, the organization includes Supply Chain & Procurement, Technical Operations, Facility Management, EHS (Environment, Health and Safety), CPD&LCM (Commercial Product Development & Product lifecycle management) and Operations Development.
The Commercial Product Development & Lifecycle Management (CPD&LCM) organization is responsible for maintaining, enhancing, and further developing the products in Orion's portfolio. We also handle technology transfers and the industrialization of Orion's original products (final stage product development).
About Us
Orion Pharma is a globally operating Nordic pharmaceutical company - a builder of well-being for over a hundred years.
We're home to more than 4,000 Orionees around the world, and we're proud to be known as a responsible employer and a great place to work. At Orion Pharma, people are truly valued and trusted, encouraged to grow, and supported by a culture where every voice is heard. We appreciate each other, strive for excellence, and build the future.
Together we develop, manufacture, and market human and veterinary pharmaceuticals and active pharmaceutical ingredients. Our extensive portfolio includes proprietary and generic medicines as well as consumer health products. The core therapy areas of our pharmaceutical R&D are oncology and pain. Proprietary products developed by Orion Pharma are used to treat cancer, neurological diseases, respiratory diseases, and more.
We offer careers with a clear purpose: empowering people to live their lives to the fullest.