CMC Specialist

Advance your career while advancing medicine

About APC

APC Ltd is an award-winning and rapidly growing pharmaceutical process research company, with headquarters in Dublin, Ireland.  In the space of 5 years, our science and technology driven solutions have pioneered innovation in the sector, and we now partner with 8 of the top-10 pharma and 5 of the top-10 biotech firms in the world.

From our world-class facility, our highly capable and qualified team delivers specialised chemical and process engineering solutions.  Powered by novel technology and world-class scientific research, we help companies accelerate the development & launch of their medicines.

Our rapid growth has come from a commitment to excellence, a drive to innovate and the desire to develop a challenging, creative and rewarding environment for our team. 

Role Purpose

The CMC Specialist acts as the technical-commercial bridge between Business Development, Marketing, HoD/ML, and Proposal Owners, ensuring opportunities are qualified, technically supported, strategically positioned, and governed through a consistent proposal process that improves proposal quality, win rate, customer experience, and delivery readiness.

Key Responsibilities

Role Overview:

The CMC specialist's role is to extend our clients engagement across our full medicine accelerator value chain and to continuously bring additional value to our clients in line with their CMC needs.

Commercial CMC Strategy & Sales Journey Support

·       Support BD from early sales stages through discovery and proposal.

·       Translate client CMC challenges into clear opportunity framing.

·       Support strategic account planning, campaigns, seminars, workshops, and value propositions.

·       Partner with Marketing to create technical content, case studies, webinars, conference messaging, and sales enablement.

·       Identify technical trends, client needs, and service opportunities across LM/VLE.

Proposal Governance & Excellence

·       Act as entry point for technical support and proposal requests.

·       Review proposal readiness and qualification.

·       Prioritize requests High / Medium / Low.

·       Ensure HoD/ML and SME engagement for technical strategy.

·       Track proposal progress, velocity, risks, and bottlenecks.

·       Maintain proposal Rules of Engagement, templates, and quality gates.

·       Ensure proposal handover, review, and approval steps are followed.

Technical Strategy Coordination

·       Ensure technical strategy is defined by HoD/ML or assigned SMEs.

·       Facilitate strategy alignment between BD, HoD/ML, PM/Proposal Owner, and CMC.

·       Ensure technical needs, assumptions, timelines, resource plans, deliverables, and risks are captured before authoring.

·       Escalate when technical strategy is unclear or unsupported.

CMC Knowledge Transfers

·       Train the organisation on CMC aligned services and service delivery.

·       Support the creation of CMC technical content and attend conferences etc. to capture and target new client and become known in the industry. 

·       Monitor active projects and participate in interactions between clients and APC technical teams that ensure client success

·       Generation of templates and ways of working for CMC department.

·       Oversight, leadership and supervision for Associate and other CMC specialists, as specified by your manager.

Qualifications

·       Degree level qualified. 

·       BSc./BEng in pharmaceutical Technology, Chemical Engineering, or equivalent engineering / scientific degree.

Experience

·       3 years+ previous experience in pharmaceutical industry is required.

·       Hands on lab experience in a CMC environment is required.

·       Experience with regulatory submissions and audits is preferred.

·       Experience with bringing drugs to market or to clinical trial is preferred.

·       Experience of working on project costings and schedules is preferable.

·       Experience in working to tight deadlines with good attention to detail and task focused behaviour.

Skills & Knowledge

·       Strong communication and facilitation skills.

·       Commercial acumen and customer focus.

·       Proposal governance and process management.

·       Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills.

·       Strategic account and opportunity management.

·       Solid understanding of the pharmaceutical CMC lifecycle.

·       Ability to translate customer needs into technical solutions.

·       Cross-functional collaboration across Commercial, Marketing, and Technical Operations.

·       Proficiency in Salesforce, iAchieve, Microsoft Office, and AI/Copilot tools.

·       Strong planning, prioritization, and analytical skills.

·       Ability to identify, escalate, and mitigate technical and commercial risks.

Digital Business Intelligence and metrics

·       Manage proposal management systems and proposal pipeline reporting.

·       Develop and maintain proposal dashboards and KPIs.

·       Maintain proposal templates, AI/Copilot libraries, and knowledge repositories.

·       Manage technical content and sales enablement materials.

·       Monitor proposal performance, cycle time, win/loss trends, and process compliance.

Qualifications

·       Degree level qualified. 

·       BSc./BEng in pharmaceutical Technology, Chemical Engineering, or equivalent engineering / scientific degree.

Experience

·       3 years+ previous experience in pharmaceutical industry is required.

·       Hands on lab experience in a CMC environment is required.

·       Experience with regulatory submissions and audits is preferred.

·       Experience with bringing drugs to market or to clinical trial is preferred.

·       Experience of working on project costings and schedules is preferable.

·       Experience in working to tight deadlines with good attention to detail and task focused behaviour.

Skills & Knowledge

·       Strong communication and facilitation skills.

·       Commercial acumen and customer focus.

·       Proposal governance and process management.

·       Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills.

·       Strategic account and opportunity management.

·       Solid understanding of the pharmaceutical CMC lifecycle.

·       Ability to translate customer needs into technical solutions.

·       Cross-functional collaboration across Commercial, Marketing, and Technical Operations.

·       Proficiency in Salesforce, iAchieve, Microsoft Office, and AI/Copilot tools.

·       Strong planning, prioritization, and analytical skills.

·       Ability to identify, escalate, and mitigate technical and commercial risks.

Digital Business Intelligence and metrics

·       Manage proposal management systems and proposal pipeline reporting.

·       Develop and maintain proposal dashboards and KPIs.

·       Maintain proposal templates, AI/Copilot libraries, and knowledge repositories.

·       Manage technical content and sales enablement materials.

·       Monitor proposal performance, cycle time, win/loss trends, and process compliance.

Skills, Knowledge & Experience

Qualifications

·       Degree level qualified. 

·       BSc./BEng in pharmaceutical Technology, Chemical Engineering, or equivalent engineering / scientific degree.

Experience

·       3 years+ previous experience in pharmaceutical industry is required.

·       Hands on lab experience in a CMC environment is required.

·       Experience with regulatory submissions and audits is preferred.

·       Experience with bringing drugs to market or to clinical trial is preferred.

·       Experience of working on project costings and schedules is preferable.

·       Experience in working to tight deadlines with good attention to detail and task focused behaviour.

Skills & Knowledge

·       Strong communication and facilitation skills.

·       Commercial acumen and customer focus.

·       Proposal governance and process management.

·       Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills.

·       Strategic account and opportunity management.

·       Solid understanding of the pharmaceutical CMC lifecycle.

·       Ability to translate customer needs into technical solutions.

·       Cross-functional collaboration across Commercial, Marketing, and Technical Operations.

·       Proficiency in Salesforce, iAchieve, Microsoft Office, and AI/Copilot tools.

·       Strong planning, prioritization, and analytical skills.

·       Ability to identify, escalate, and mitigate technical and commercial risks.

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If you believe you have the capability required and the interest in being part of this dynamic rapidly growing organisation, we would like to talk to you.

The closing date for applications is 14th August 2026.

The salary range for this position is €50,000 - €80,000, depending on experience.



APC is committed to the principle of equal opportunity for all employees. All employment decisions at APC are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regards to gender, ethnicity, age, religious belief, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, or any other status protected by Irish law.

Similar vacancies arising in the coming 6 months may be filled from this group of applicants.