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The role provides technical leadership across process development, process characterization, scale-up, technology transfer, and manufacturing readiness, ensuring a seamless transition from development to robust, scalable, and GMP-compliant manufacturing.\nThe successful candidate is responsible for leading CMC regulatory authoring and documentation to support global regulatory submissions, lifecycle management of regulatory dossiers, and responses to health authority inquiries. The role also drives continuous improvement initiatives that strengthen process understanding, manufacturing robustness, and advancement of the company's radiopharmaceutical portfolio.\nWorking in close collaboration with Technical Development, MSAT, Quality, Engineering, and Operations, this position provides leadership in equipment selection, facility readiness, operational start-up, and technology transfer activities to ensure successful integration of new processes into internal manufacturing operations and readiness for clinical and commercial supply.\nIn addition, the Director provides targeted technical support to the Director of External Manufacturing on CDMO-related activities, including technology transfer, process performance assessment, manufacturing investigations, and process optimization. The role helps ensure alignment between internal development programs and external manufacturing strategies to support a reliable, scalable, and compliant supply network.\nKey Responsibilities and Duties\nDevelop phase-appropriate CMC strategies and ensure generation of the supporting data, technical documentation, and regulatory submission packages\n\nPartner closely with Technical Development and MSAT to align process development, optimization, and scale-up activities for ²¹²Pb based API and radiopharmaceutical manufacturing processes.\n\nDrive process characterization and lifecycle development studies to establish critical process parameters, critical quality attributes, and control strategies\n\nEstablish phase-appropriate drug substance and drug product specifications based on process understanding, manufacturing performance data, and overall CMC strategy\n\nEnsure process development activities comply with GMP requirements and applicable radiopharmaceutical regulatory 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