Product Development Scientist

Job description

Pay rate: $42/hr 

Contract Duration: 6 months 

Location: Englewood Cliff, NJ



Standard Hours Per Week

20.00



Job Description

Product Development Scientist

Work level: 1B/1C

Schedule: Contract

Location: Englewood Cliff, NJ

Function: R&D

Reports to: Senior Manager, New Product Development Health & Wellbeing

WHO ARE WE?

We are the Global Health & Wellbeing (H&W) team at ***.

We are a start-up (less than 3 years old), focused on one of ***’s largest growth opportunities – the €140bn Health & Wellbeing space defined by Vitamins, Minerals, and Supplements (VMS).

We work in an agile and entrepreneurial way, collaboratively within the team and with our *** colleagues around the world.

We work in a project based networked way where everyone needs to be able to take a step back and think strategically as well as rolling up their sleeves and get their hands dirty, to be entrepreneurial and experiment as well as bringing in the best of *** and work the structures of a large company, to take charge and lead as well as follow and support others.

OUR BUSINESS

***’s Health & Wellbeing Group holds the company’s functional dietary supplement brands and the portfolio of brands that includes Equilibra (Italy) and US acquired brands Olly, LiquidIV, SmartyPants, Welly, Onnit.

Each brand is completely unique and focused on giving consumers superior experiences within their respective spaces and target segments.

For the acquired businesses, we are committed to continue growing this strategic business for *** through international expansion of the acquired brands, utilizing ***’s scale and network in the markets.

JOB DESCRIPTION OVERVIEW

The Product Development Scientist, Health & Wellbeing will be responsible for supporting the development of the best-in-class formulations to aid the growth ambition for the Health & Wellbeing Collective – specifically in relation to new product development and new market entry and the establishment of an external ecosystem technical partners/capabilities.

The role will have cross functional interactions and coordination across Marketing, Supply chain, SEAC, Quality, Regulatory and external Contract labs & Raw material suppliers to ensure timely delivery of the objectives.

The role will be required to provide technical support related to Flavor development, formulation development and would cover a broad range of challenges – from designing consumer preferred robust formulas, to developing raw material and finished product spec, scaling up by leveraging external Contract labs and Collaborative manufacturers.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

· Support Formulation design work for innovations to deliver safe, superior, design to value and consumer winning products.

· Work seamlessly with other R&D functions (packaging, Consumer Technical Insights, processing, regulatory teams) to ensure delivery on assigned projects.

· Ensuring statutory regulatory & legal compliances for products & process.

· Responsible for identifying and establishing appropriate technology for manufacturing products to specification at lab-scale and pilot-scale.

· Responsible for scaling up to factory with relevant transfer of technology documentation and training factory team.

· Responsible for specification, formulation, process, pack, and Quality Assurance regimes to support / enforce these specs agreed technical action standards.

· Provide support to conduct shelf-life studies to establish shelf-life of new products and/or intervene through formulation/recipes to enhance shelf-life.

· Use appropriate analytical techniques (either existing or develop new techniques) to characterize key physical attributes of the product.

· Appreciating and engaging with marketing team constantly for insights and translating them into product properties & performance.

· Anticipate assessment and minimization of environmental, safety, regulatory, PR and competitive challenges.

· Build and maintain strong networks with cross functional (Brand, CMI, SC, CQA etc) teams.

KEY EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

· Bachelor’s degree required in Pharmacy/Food Science.

Master’s degree (Science/Pharmaceutics/Industrial Pharmacy/food) would be preferred.

· 5 years’ experience in formulation development or technology development (Dietary supplement/OTC products experience would be preferred).

· Good understanding of Product development Principles – formulation development for consumer-friendly ingestible dosage forms such as Functional Powders, Mouth-dissolving films, Effervescent tablets etc., material understanding, product scale up, ingredient sources and GMP.

· Working knowledge and experience of product commercialization, process validation and technology transfer in manufacturing sites.

· Working knowledge of generating raw material and product sepecifications.

· Excellent written and oral communication skills, ability to work well with others, and ability to plan and execute work independently with minimal supervision.

· Ability to support projects with multiple external parties including contractors, research partners, manufacturing facilities, etc.

· Strong analytical skills to process data and draw technical conclusions.

· Flexibility to manage multiple priorities.

· Strong relationships and communicate effectively with cross functional teams.

· Adapt to daily challenges and priority changes within business environment.

Required Skill Profession

Other General